These people (the leadership) are not backwoods clodhoppers, they have a philosophically based agenda and the tenacity and will to carry it out. They also appear to have the support of a good many average Muslims for all or part of their program.

The North Vietnamese had the same motivations and look what they did.

This was only a joke.

Good point. That may be why they ask for long-term subscriptions with money upfront. Rolling Stones Magazine had the same problem in the 60s.

Now an e-mag for terrorists? That’s a much better model. Allow payment by mircotransaction and any terrorist with a sat phone and a modem can subscribe. Moving all that paper by donkey is going to be expensive and not very timely. No one hates late advice on building a bomb more than the guy building the bombs.

Thankfully, the zealots are luddites as well as insane fundamentalists. So they have that going for them. Which is nice.

I thought you were joking but apparently not . . .

Al-Qaida on the Arabian Peninsula has a published the eleventh issue of its magazine Sada al-Malahim. Naturally, Greg over at Waq al-Waq has it covered (see also here).

The 36th issue of Sada al-Jihad is also out, and it is as chunky and well-produced as ever. The front page reads “Hamas continues its war on the Sunni Mujahidin”, and judging from the table of contents, almost the entire issue is about the recent events in Gaza.