The 5th issue of Inspire Magazine has been released, and there is plenty to not like, and to justify ongoing efforts to take out Samir Khan & Co. But let's give credit where credit is due, and thank the boys in Yemen for a couple of contributions to counter-terrorism.

1. Despite the very explicit effort by al-Qaida to encourage Western jihadis to improvise when seeking weapons (e.g. see Adam Gadahn's "Call to Arms" message released last year), Inspire continues to promote the AK-47.

Need an AK akhi? I'm here to help. Of course I'll be wearing a wire, and when money and weapons are exchanged a bunch of nice boys and girls with guns drawn will swoop in and haul your ass off to jail.

2. And then there is the encouragement to email Sheikh Anwar.

Please do, and be sure to first install the latest version of Asrar al-Mujahideen, double check its digital signature, and then use Asrar to encrypt that message to Awlaki.

Here, I'll make this easy for you, good servant of Allah that I am, who wants to do nothing other than aid the Mujahideen:

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3. And Allah knows best, and Allah is the best of plotters.

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* credit for Tiger Beat comparison: intelwire/JM Berger