Inspire Magazine, Al-Qaeda Propaganda and CNN Coverage
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released a new edition of Inspire magazine, which CNN correspondent Barbara Starr and analyst Paul Cruickshank reported on extensively. The magazine praises the Tsarnaev brothers for the Boston Marathon bombing and encourages "lone wolf" attacks in the West. Analysis suggests the media coverage effectively promotes the propaganda, with Cruickshank, a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, repeatedly using the word "inspire" to align with the magazine's branding.
inspire magazine· al-qaeda· cnn· barbara starr· paul cruickshank· boston marathon bombing· lone wolf terrorism
00:00 Come on! All right, are you ready? Give it a good spin. Adam Curry John C. Dvorak It's Sunday June 2nd 2013 time for your Gidmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 518 This is no agenda Thumbing through my favorite magazine here in Travis Heights hideout in Austin Texas In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where I am reading The New York Times I am John C. Dvorak It's Crackpot and Buzzkill Wow, I had time to turn a 747 around in the hole you left there. Yeah apparently Did you do it? Did you turn around a 747? Yeah sure did. I should yeah It's a figure o speech Amigo so it's out! It's out! It's out! I'm so excited What what do you mean what what's out You're kidding me right well you got your- you're not doing that again just cuz Mickey's gone No no not that not that
01:04 What are you talking about? No, it's a Inspire magazine the new edition is out. I'm so excited Have you not been thumbing through your copy? It's propaganded written by one of the agencies Special ops well I figured it would be interesting today to kick off the show by showing people that this is indeed exactly that, a special op. And it goes all the way back to two weeks ago we could have known this thing was coming and it has actually turned my head into...
01:48 I focused more on some things that will give us information Days if not weeks ahead of time we just you think it's a it's like a book of codes or so no It's not even it's this is if you want to hide something. You do it in plain sight, it's much easier than okay only So I'm all ears now now that you've got my attention well first of course whenever something breaks We know he got to go to broth and back This is the latest version of inspire the magazine published by a Yes, she has a job in broadcasting No, this is this is uh you know Barbara whatever her name. This is the who do you think it is?
02:28 I don't know, somebody is with a... she's just got a... she sounds like Elmer Fudd. Who is she? That's the Pentagon correspondent for CNN Barbara! Barbara whatever her name is you know horseface And she talks like this on network?! We've played her before Do I always bitch about it? Never Huh So so she's at the Pentagon in the Pentagon studio they have a little closet there and uh so that's where you know they just sit there The reporter's waiting and someone comes along Hey, Vibra. Here it is! Here's what you talk about now. Oh, the new Inspire magazine! The ink is still wet. All right here we go. Arabian Peninsula and much of it including this article titled The Inevitable I love this report! Hold on a second does the magazine have explosives built into it? This is a good report. Well done and she's...and they..I have to say that the new guy Zucker
03:29 He's doing a good job because this is done live. This timing of the explosion and the video that goes along with it was timed perfectly on cue, because this is not a prepackaged report. This is Barbara live getting tossed to from Brolf and as very good... Is cruelly devoted to the Boston Marathon bombing What it tells you is this group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Now this where I got my first clue all of a sudden this magazine comes out and this douchebag starts showing up everywhere. This guy, this British guy is opportunistically trying to take advantage of this attack the magazine calls the Tsarnaev brothers quote brilliant in carrying out the attacks which al-Qaeda says were quote an absolute success The magazines mentions Copley Square, Fenway Park and Boston University it says these heroic bombings
04:21 have exposed many hidden shortcomings of the American security and intelligence system. Okay, so she goes on for a little bit there talking about this fantastic article that was written in Inspire Magazine now what bothered me is this all of a sudden new people appear on the scene Guys you never see or you might remember him, but whenever a dude with the British accent shows up Danger this is when your bull crapometer should be flying off the scale. This guy's name is Paul Krukschack and you write that C u CRU ICK sh an k Kruk Shank, I guess crook Shank and he has a zone this guy
05:09 Educated Georgetown University, by the way is a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Yeah CIA think tank so then he appears on Jake Tapper and this is where he I mean it's almost like if now Of course people who are listening to no agenda podcast know how to listen to these things He is not just discussing this magazine. He is promoting it. emphasizing every single word that needs emphasize emphasizing in particularly the title but all the great things this magazine has to offer he is in effect reaching out to you and asking you to go find this magazine which I they're trying to capitalize on this to inspire more as fast as he already liked to inspire more attacks these are using the title in his vernacular we inspired this our magazines by this these two brothers downloaded for making instructions from
06:09 our magazine and they then carried out this attack. They can show our followers in the West what they can be capable of, these type of lone wolf attacks so they're trying to inspire more of this kind of terrorism. How could two guys be a lone wolf? Can you explain that to me? I know! That's fantastic And also talk about it is magazine the machete attack in the UK thats pretty quick turnaround This is where I was like, that's funny. Yeah these guys got a real... they've got a great operation! They've got like a whole staff, you know this is awesome! Explain that, why that propaganda. Yeah explain how you do that there at headquarters I mean uh and how Inspire does that. And the value is so important to talk about all these different events and current events Well thats a very quick turnaround That was just about a week ago God damn it took us such a long It was really hard to get it done on time They put that out very quickly they feel this is another victory for them This is going to inspire more of these sorts of attacks They also refer to Could he use the word Inspire one more time Do you think John? Is it possible that he doesn't yet again No its not possible
07:15 attack against a French soldier in Paris on Saturday so very recent events are mentioned in this inspire magazine to encourage more lone wolf style terrorism. At this point I'm like... In the West they recognize this is very hard to protect again against you got just two or three people launching these attacks and they don't have connections to overseas terrorist groups are saying okay so this is kind of the payoff for saying it's like you know this isn't possible to protect again come and join us don't come in train with us stay home will give you instructions you need to carry out these attacks okay perfect so then Jake has two other shills on
07:57 and again these are totally new guys so I think that the CIA just opened up the door to the department and this is the entire editorial staff of inspire magazine on CNN it's just like hey guys go ahead promote it we got a new issue it's on stands now. I want you to stay here for a minute while we take a look at another developing part of this story, new evidence today that Boston bombing is already becoming a key recruiting tool. The terror plot is front and center in the latest issue of Al Qaeda's English language magazine. It's English language! Do you hear that? English language! Oh, that means I can go get it and read it in English. I thought it was Arabic so I didn't bother.
08:38 but now that I know it's in English, I'll get a copy. along at home kids. The Boston bombings have uncovered the capabilities of the Muslim youth, they have revealed the power of a lone jihad operation unquote. The magazine also highlights the attack in London and other recent Lone Wolf type terror incidents so Tim I want to bring you back here that today the State Department submitted this report on terrorism to the US Congress. The key line in the first paragraph of chapter one, the AQ corps ability to direct the activities and attacks of its affiliates
09:21 Affiliates have diminished as its leaders focus increasingly on survival. This would seem to speak directly to what we're seeing in this latest issue of Inspire the Threat, Al Qaeda is now pushing these lone wolf homegrown attacks. Is this in your view the real future of al-Qaeda terrorism? I believe it's been the past and the future of Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda has never been about regimenting attacks... Anybody pronounce it the same way? Impossible! Although they have planned long term planning for attacks like September 11th, that is not the norm for them The norm for them is radicalizing individuals This is just like.. Who are these guys?! These are not experts, these are CIA agents Did you take a look at Paul Krushank's bio? Yeah yeah he has got a webpage
