From the Daily News:A slick new Al Qaeda magazine written in English to lure U.S. jihadists may be the work of a former New Yorker with an eye for graphics - and a lust for American blood.
Intelligence officials see chilling similarities between a militant blog Samir Khan produced and the Internet-based magazine Inspire.
Khan landed on intelligence radar in 2007, when he was 21, after posting an Osama Bin Laden screed to the blog he maintained from his parents' basement.
The blog boasted crisp graphics, an easy familiarity with American culture and attitudes, and a pipeline to hard-core rhetoric.
Fast forward to last month, when Al Qaeda put out Inspire, with the message that U.S. military action in the Arab world must be avenged.
The packaging spooked experts with its potential for recruiting Western youth. It also seemed familiar to those who track militants, like the Jawa Report blog.
Khan was born in Saudi Arabia but his family moved to Queens when he was 7 years old.
In 2007, he told the New York Times that he was a typical American kid until he turned 15 and went to a weeklong summer camp sponsored by the Islamic Organization of North America.
He stopped dressing like his pals at John Adams High School in Queens, grew tired of IONA's moderate tenets, and joined the more militant Islamic Thinkers Society, sources said.
His family moved to Jersey in 2000 and North Carolina in 2004, sources said. That's when he started his blog, "Inshallahshaheed," or "A martyr soon if God wills."
9 comments:
Flushing, Jamaica, Bedford-Stuyvesant and the neighborhoods situated around Utica Avenue are all breeding grounds or are already home for/to Afghani and Pakistani terrorists.
Gee...I wonder how many closeted terrorists are residing in vibrant, diverse...and oh yes...bustling Flushing?
Like my pappy always said,
"Never trust anybody who wears a funny hat".
Another Queens terrorist -- born and bred. So proud of our vibrant, diverse borough.
Jesus, the reading comprehension is pitiful around here! Even our blogmaster seems to have succumbed this time. Please re-read the following from the article:
"In 2007, he told the New York Times that he was a typical American kid until he turned 15 and went to a weeklong summer camp sponsored by the Islamic Organization of North America."
In other words, the radicalism was not bred in Queens, but in a summer camp sponsored by an organization based in Michigan. The fact that he lived in Queens is thus incidental, irrelevant.
Please refrain from responding unless you've got something intelligent to contribute.
"In other words, the radicalism was not bred in Queens, but in a summer camp sponsored by an organization based in Michigan. The fact that he lived in Queens is thus incidental, irrelevant."
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you aware of the numbers of saudi/wahabbi and their mosques located in nyc ?
this guy moved to another state and we're still full of radical leadership and future martyrs.
what's irrelevant about having saudi funded mosques,mosques under radical leadership in queens ?
not Muslim, but not bigoted either said...
Jesus, the reading comprehension is pitiful around here! Even our blogmaster seems to have succumbed this time. Please re-read the following from the article: "In 2007, he told the New York Times that he was a typical American kid until he turned 15 and went to a weeklong summer camp sponsored by the Islamic Organization of North America." In other words, the radicalism was not bred in Queens, but in a summer camp sponsored by an organization based in Michigan. The fact that he lived in Queens is thus incidental, irrelevant. Please refrain from responding unless you've got something intelligent to contribute.
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You miserably failed to understand the statement was the Islamist's own description of himself. How can you then make such a sweeping statement that he could not have been "radicalized" in Queens on the basis of an opinion? A suspect's opinion to boot! Your logic is simply faulty.
There's a very basic issue here that's misrepresenting the subject at hand. Your lack of knowledge of Islam, it's history and how it has been and is practiced. You are what is known as an apologist. Your bigot inference can just as easily be placed on yourself.
SLAM (radical) ISLAM and let's be done with it!
The day after 9-11 the US should have retaliated mercilessly!
Brute force is the only language these backward barbarian goat f-----g radicals are capable of understanding!
Ahmed:
"My sheep is so cuddly and affectionate".
Sadik:
"But the horns of my goat make great love handles".
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