Twitter aiding spread of Jihadi Magazine INSPIRE - For The First Time – Magazine Released Via Twitter – Circumventing Problems Of Release On Jihadi Forums.

Twitter aiding spread of Jihadi Magazine INSPIRE - For The First Time – Magazine Released Via Twitter – Circumventing Problems Of Release On Jihadi Forums.HT: Memri.

'Inspire' Magazine Issue XI – First Issue Released Via Twitter – Review And Analysis: AQAP Praises Use Of Twitter, Reiterates Strategies Of Lone Wolf Jihad, Bringing Down U.S. Economy By: Steven Stalinsky and R. Sosnow* 

Introduction. On May 30, 2013, jihad supporters on Twitter disseminated links to Issue XI of Inspire, the English-language jihadi magazine produced by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).[1]
The issue includes threats to the American people by the group's military commander Qassim Al-Rimi; and in it, AQAP attempts to capitalize on the Boston and London attacks to incite further attacks. Most of the articles in this issue of the magazine focus on the Boston Marathon bombing. Inspire's publishers clearly believe that they deserve credit for providing the Tsarnaev brothers with the motivation and operational know-how for the attack.
More importantly, in this issue, AQAP continues to incite Muslims in the West to carry out similar attacks, by emulating the brothers as well as the perpetrators of the May 22 Woolwich murder and attacks. Thus, featuring prominently in this issue is a message from Al-Rimi warning the American people that these attacks will continue, and that their government is helpless to stop them 
Following the publication of Issue XI, on June 2, an audio warning by Al-Rimi was posted online; in it, he stated that that the Boston bombings revealed the fragility of security, urged Muslims to defend their religion, and said that making bombs such as the ones used in Boston was within "everyone's reach."[3]

For The First Time – Magazine Released Via Twitter – Circumventing Problems Of Release On Jihadi Forums In contrast to all previous issues of Inspire, which were published on Al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadi forums, this issue was published via Twitter, with a link for downloading it tweeted by a number of Twitter accounts. 

 This Twitter release circumvented the main problem that had plagued the publication of previous issues of Inspire – that is, subsequent and intermittent removal of the jihadi forums. Twitter is referred to and praised, and tweets are cited, multiple times in Issue XI – further evidence that jihadis are becoming increasingly dependent upon it.
The first to tweet a viable link was a Twitter account belonging to one "Muhammad Al-Shammary," @muhammad115599, who wrote that he had received an email with the English and Arabic versions of the magazine, and then tweeted the password for the link. However, before Al-Shammary tweeted links, the first to break the news of the issue's release was Yemeni journalist 'Abd Al-Razzaq Al-Jamal, who is associated with AQAP; he posted excerpts and images from it on his Facebook page.
He also posted on his page links to both the English and Arabic versions of the magazine, but they did not lead anywhere; he attributed this to power outages in Yemen, where he lives. It should be noted that Al-Jamal is featured, and his Twitter account is quoted, in Issue XI: "America violates sovereignty of nations. They carry out Extrajudicial killings. Above that, they exploit children in their lowly intelligence services. Then people talk about America as a state of law. America recruits children below the age of ten. They did this in the targeting of Sheikh Adnan Al-Qadhy."Read the full story here.