A young man from North Carolina that moved to Yemen may be the new editor in chief of a magazine for Al Qaeda that contains an article written by Osman Bin Laden, and bomb making instructions according to US officials.
24 year old American citizen, Samir Khan, left the US in October of 2009 and is thought to be the editor of the online magazine Inspire, which seeks to recruit new members from the Arabian Peninsula of Al Qaesa. This is the branch that was said to be involved in the attempt to bomb a Detroit US flight during Christmas of last year.
The publication is 67 pages online and is written in colloquial English. It was launched last month and has graphics that describe how to create a kitchen as well as an article supposedly written by Bid Laden about global warming.
The key proponent of the site is American born Anwar Al-Awlaki who is linked to both the Times Square car bomb attempt and the Ford Hood massacre. He has been designated by the US Treasury Department to be one of the head leaders of the Arabian Peninsula Al Qaeda.
However, intelligence sources now believe that Khan from North Carolina is actually the mastermind of the website with some within the intelligence community referring to the magazine as one of the most ambitious tools for recruiting used yet.
Analysts believe that Khan is a part of new computer radicals that are now using online tactics which are influential in promoting terrorism within the US and recruiting violent jihadists from abroad.
Khan started being watched in 2007 when intelligence officials started monitoring a militant Islamic blog that he posted online.
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