Gibberish?
Let's not forget that the british government have plenty of experience with producing documents loaded with gibberish. You only have to download their manifesto brochures to see that.
British intelligence corrupted the debut issue of a glossy Jihadist magazine last year, creating confusion in the ranks of would-be mujahideen who tried to download a PDF copy of Inspire in the process, the Washington Post reports. Inspire, billing itself as the first al-Qaida literature in the English language, and offering …
Not read it myself, but I'm told by staff in Riyadh that it was pretty openly available out there, often alongside such other "delightful" works as The Protocols of The Elders of Zion and Mein Kampf (the latter is widely read in the Mid East, even in "moderate" countries like Turkey).
It's highly likely that downloading Inspire in itself could be grounds for arrest in the UK under the Terrorism Act catch-all of having information of use to terrorists. A quick Yahoogle of Rizwaan Sabir might be wise.
and then wonder why they hate us.
Had we (Europe) just kept to ourselves and not attempted to force our views onto other people (e.g. the Crusades) the world would be a much happier place...Would also be happier had we not sold them the weapons and ammo they use in the first place too.
The first Crusades were kicked off as a defensive action aginst aggressive Muslim expansion - IE Muslim armies invaded, fought and conquered previously Christian territories. So it wasn't really an act of imposing 'our views' onto the middle east, was it?
It could also be argued that there is a difference in trying to silence an opinion/voice - which obviously should not be done - against silencing a voice actively inspiring violence [in the name of religion *again* FFS] and making available methods to carry out said violence.
"Inspire, billing itself as the first al-Qaida literature in the English language, and offering tips on kitchen-sink bomb-making and anti-Western propaganda"
Surely a couple of... revisions to the kitchen-sink bomb-making instructions would have been more effective.
You can imagine the look on the wannabe jihadists' faces when their improvised explosive device fails to explode (or, perhaps more contraversially, explodes when they're making it).
"[,,,] nice one uk intelligence service"
No, not really. Either you believe that this was ethically appropriate, in which case they wasted a glorious opportunity, or you believe that even scum like AQ deserve to have their say and publish their little newsletters, in which case it was wrong. It really doesn't matter which way you go (personally, for me, I lean towards freedom of the press, but with the understanding that handing out bomb plans and encouraging people to go out and use them be is probably stretching that freedom further than it should go), but you have to choose one or the other. From my perspective, this mission was bungled.
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The spooks are still editing the magazine and dropping in really weird bits of advice - you know - 'have you tried practicing suicide bombing in an uninhabited area just so you know what it feels like'. Then they could add music reviews, a gallery of unusually shaped vegetables, a 'Dear Dierdre' sex advice column and a 'Where's Ayman al-Zawahri?' competition to win £5.
If it is just a document, I'm sure the CIA / NSA and others would be barred from impeding it's publication / distribution due to the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution. I'm unclear how Wikileaks is affected by the 1st Amendment - however, it's perhaps a bit special as it was leaking official US documents.
Of course, being just British I'm no expert on the US Constitution !
must have been collateral damage. All the important words are 'gibberish', whatever that means. It looks like a severe kerning problem, with the letters overprinting. Maybe the publisher used the wrong point version of their pdf distiller (if that's what is's called). At least it didn't start with "Lorem ipsum...". Blame Adobe.
> Copies of the debut issue soon appeared as PDF documents on Jihadist websites. But those that downloaded copies would have found all but the first few pages consisted of gibberish characters ..
All you Kafirs can get a full working copy here. See page 51, "Open Source Jijad", that section must have been written by the Afghanistan Linux Taliban, I knew it: that 'open source' crowd are a bunch of Islamo-Fascist Communists .. :)
http://info.publicintelligence.net/InspireFall2010.pdf