Mohamud and the FBI undercover operative then agreed to meet in Portland in July 2010. At this meeting, Mohamud allegedly told the FBI undercover operative that he had written articles that were published in Jihad Recollections, an online magazine that advocated violent jihad. Mohamud also indicated that he wanted to become “operational.” Asked what he meant by “operational,” Mohamud stated that he wanted to put an “explosion” together, but needed help.
According to the FBI Mohamud wrote under the nom de plume Ibnul Mubarak for his pieces in “Jihad Recollections.”
The man who started both magazines is an American by the name of Samir Khan. Here’s what the folks the Global Jihad watch have to say about Khan:
Samir Khan run several Jihadi websites supporting Al Qaeda that were all shut down under the net name Inshallashaheed (Martyr with God’s Will) or Mujahid fe Sabeelillah(Holly Warrior in the Service of God) when, in 10/2007, he was identified by a New York Times reporter Michael Moss as Samir Khan, probably disrupting an FBI investigation into the case.
Samir Khan’s websites, FBU believes, encouraged young American Muslims to join the Global Jihad and were influential in recruiting the Minneapolis Network. Samir Khan was never charged of any terror related charges in USA.
A Senior law enforcement official said, on Monday 07/19/2010, he believes Samir Khan, who reportedly moved to Yemen to study Arabic, is the editor and the writer of the new Jihadi on line INSPIRE MAGAZINE with the full support of Anwar al-Awlaki.
The Wall Street Journal (here) provides a little context for the jihadi fourth estate.
The most unnerving pages of the magazine for an American reader are those devoted to advice to the aspiring suburban jihadist, who is encouraged to attach large, sharp blades to the front of a pick-up truck “to mow down as many people as possible in a crowd” and to use other gruesome homemade devices to act upon fantasies of violent martyrdom. Soulful photographs of bearded men in robes and headdresses alternate with translations of the writings of high-end theoreticians of “individual jihad” like Abu Musab Al-Suri.
Getty Images/Wall Street Journal Jarret Brachman, a scholar on counter-terrorism, recently described Inspire as a dangerous advance over previous forms of English-language jihadist propaganda. “Whereas previous publications used to focus on making complex arguments and exploring sophisticated issues in-depth,” he wrote, “this series is focused on mobilizing: on actualizing potential. They believe that there are a lot of loaded guns out there in the form of angry kids in the West. They just need someone to pull the trigger: Al-Qaeda believes they can be this trigger.”
From KATU website. These are links to his articles:
- April 2009: “Getting Into Shape Without Weights” by Ibn al-Mubarak (cover)
- May 2009: “Preparing for the long nights” by Ibn al-Mubarak (cover)
- August 2009: “Assessing the Role and Influence of As-Sahab Media” (cover)