Thursday, April 7, 2011

How to Tell if Your Neighbor is a Bombmaker

STRATFOR  "Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released the fifth edition of its English-language jihadist magazine “Inspire” on March 30. AQAP publishes this magazine with the stated intent of radicalizing English-speaking Muslims and encouraging them to engage in jihadist militant activity. Since its inception, Inspire magazine has also advocated the concept that jihadists living in the West should conduct attacks there, rather than traveling to places like Pakistan or Yemen, since such travel can bring them to the attention of the authorities before they can conduct attacks, and AQAP views attacking in the West as “striking at the heart of the unbelievers.”" A tad scary and it lets us know that we are all at war.
How to Tell if Your Neighbor is a Bombmaker is republished with permission of STRATFOR.

When she was with us, my mother would find out our trip plans and invariably send us newspaper clippings about terrible things that had happened to people who did just what we had planned. We all took it with good humor and it is still funny today. This is neither that nor an Archie Bunker-like view. Think of it as more of a what- the-Columbine-shooters'-parents-should-have-known kind of article.

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