Anwar al Awlaki was an American Imam who used his position to inspire two of the 9/11 hijackers, the Fort Hood shooter, the Times Square bomber, Portland’s Christmas Tree bomber and untold thousands of Jihadis, now has two more jihadis to put on his resume: the Boston Marathon bombers.

Well, I’m sure he would put them on his resume if he were still alive. But Awlaki caught his limit in September 2011 by a special delivery predator drone. 

As you may recall from the recent Mohamed Mohamud trial (see a list of my posts here), the 19 year old Oregon State University student exchanged more than 150 emails to the notorious Imam and publisher of the online jihadi how-to guide Inspire Magazine. In fact he sought to write for the magazine and, indeed, did write for the Awlaki and his side kick Samir Khan’s OTHER jihad magazine called, “Jihad Recollections.” Khan met his end in the same drone attack that killed Awlaki. 

According to this report from NBC News:

[T]he brothers read the instructions in Inspire, an online, English-language magazine that terror monitoring groups say al Qaeda began publishing in 2010.

The magazine has twice included articles on building bombs with kitchen pressure cookers — the method investigators say Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, used in the Boston attack.

And the younger suspect also confirms their radical Islamic beliefs were at the root of their hatred for America.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told investigators he and his brother acted alone, learned to build the pressure-cooker bombs over the Internet and were motivated by a desire to defend Islam because of “the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said the source, who has received multiple briefings on the probe.

Even in death, Anwar al Awlaki still inspires deranged homegrown jihadis to “defend Islam” by killing innocents.