BY Meena Hartenstein
 Samir Khan (r.) could be brought up on terrorism charges very soon if a grand jury decideshe is tied to an Al Qaeda recruitment magazine. |
A jihadist blogger accused of running an online how-to guide for Al Qaeda could be charged with terrorism very soon, sources say.
A federal grand jury has started reviewing evidence against Samir Khan, a 24-year-old who ran a militant Islamic website out of his parents’ basement, and is now suspected of being behind the Al Qaeda magazine Inspire, NPR reports.
Inspire, a 67-page mag published online in June, slapped snappy titles on terrorist advice columns like “Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom” and ran items like a packing guide for what to take on a jihad trip.
It instantly attracted FBI attention, and intelligence agents noted eerie similarities between Inspire and Khan’s own blog, “Inshallahshaheed” which translates to “A martyr if God wills.”
“There were choices in content and how it was created that echoed what Samir Khan had done with his blog several years back,” a federal source said when the site surfaced. Read full story
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