Inspire is the magazine published by Al Qaeda and it was recently disclosed at a court hearing on Wednesday that a copy of the magazine managed to get inside Guantánamo prison. The disclosure was an embarrassment for the prison and it was revealed by a Navy Commander, Andrea Lockhart. The hearing was to discuss the setting up of a mail system inside the prison that would be more heavily scrutinised.
Officials from the prison want to change how the mail system works and they have been given a week to draft a control order for the court, who will decide whether they can go ahead. The judge deciding what will change is James Pohl.
There are currently over 170 people being held at the prison camps which were established 10 years ago by the Pentagon. There is an enormous staff at the facility amounting to around 1800 people. There is a librarian specifically tasked with censoring newspapers that come into the prison or anything that the staff deemed to be unsuitable for the inmates.
There has been no further information released about how the magazine managed to get into the prison and how the prison officers discovered it. The magazine was first released online two years ago and it was later published in print. An expert on the terrorist activities of Al Qaeda leader is Evan Kohlmann and he describes the breach of security as, “regrettable.”
Samir Khan was the initial editor of the magazine until he was killed in a missile strike on an Al Qaeda facility. Before he was killed he was only responsible for publishing seven editions of the magazine. The magazine is known for celebrating terrorist actions and regularly glorifies the events of September 11.
As well as being inspirational for potential terrorists it is also informative and at times instructional. The magazine promotes terrorism and encourages people to take up arms and conduct attacks on a civilian population for maximum casualties.
Mr Kohlmann commented, “The magazine has a little bit of everything in it. It glorifies attempted attacks on the United States and it offers supporting words for those terrorists being held by the US government. The actions of Al Qaeda’s leaders are glorified and it even contains instructions on how to make bombs. This encourages many people to become militants and carry out terrorist attacks without the need for excessive planning.”
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