Washington Times:

Inspire, the 67-page glossy of photos and text is an online recruitment magazine for English-speaking jihadists. It’s the brainchild of U.S.-Yemeni radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki…Published by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the magazine offers messages from Osama bin Laden on “the way to save the earth,” from his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri to the “people of Yemen” and from Mr. al-Awlaki to “the American people and Muslims in the West.”

And it touts itself as the first magazine to be issued by al Qaeda in English…Mr. al-Awlaki himself, who was born in New Mexico, is fluent in English…Mr. al-Awlaki has been linked to various acts of terrorism directed against the U.S. by intelligence officials.

Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who is accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in November, had been in contact with Mr. al-Awlaki before the massacre. Mr. al-Awlaki later described the attack as a “heroic act.”

The suspect in the Christmas Day bombing attempt, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, and the suspect in the attempted car bombing at Times Square, Faisal Shahzad, also said they were inspired by Mr. al-Awlaki’s anti-American sermons.

Page 33: “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom.” That’s nice. However, we’re getting confused. Mr. al-Awlaki seems to be talking about religion, as did Mr. biin Laden in his declaration of war on the United States. But our government tells us that Jihad is a good thing. We just don’t know what to think anymore.

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