Inspire is produced by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and contains exhortations to carry out so-called 'lone wolf' terrorist attacks by self-motivated groups and individuals. Pictured is an advert from the magazine . The Woolwich terror attack has chilling echoes of a previous plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier. Five men were jailed in 2008 after police smashed a Birmingham-based terror cell’s plan to burn a kidnapped soldier’s body and parade his head on a stick as a warning to other Muslims against joining the British Army. Thankfully, ringleader Parviz Khan failed to identify a soldier to target before they were detained by the security services. Khan had links to Al Qaeda in Pakistan and said in a conversation bugged by MI5: ‘Like that, I think you cut it off like you cut a pig. Then you put it on a stick and we say, this is to all Muslims man [who] want to join the Kuffar (non-believer) army – this is what will happen to you. ‘Then we throw the body, burn it, send the video to the chacha [Al Qaeda leaders]. The chacha can release it there. These people gonna go crazy.’ The words of Khan, jailed for life, were an ominous warning. Last night, as armed police guarded two men suspected of killing and trying to behead a soldier near Woolwich barracks, detectives were urgently trying to establish how the killers were radicalised. Officers were checking jihadi websites where preachers of hate urge Islamic extremists to behead soldiers. The authorities will also be investigating whether the attackers had been spurred into action by reading Al Qaeda’s English-language magazine, Inspire. The publication is produced by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and contains exhortations to carry out so-called ‘lone wolf’ terrorist attacks by self-motivated groups and individuals. Articles and ‘jihadi advertisements’ have urged people to carry out attacks with knives and to run people down in vehicles. The Boston Marathon bombers used instructions contained in the first issue of the magazine to build and detonate their devices. The guide was called ‘How to build a bomb in the kitchen of your mom’. Inspire has been linked to at least 15 terrorism cases and Al Qaeda made an abortive attempt to publish the 11th issue of the magazine just days ago. It is believed that intelligence agencies intervened in the publication process, meaning that the file was blank when people who downloaded it tried to open it. A previous issue was doctored so a section on bomb-making was replaced with cupcake recipes. Inciting hatred: A Muslim protest in London in 2006 . Documents such as Inspire are circulated on a network of websites which are attracting large audiences. A recent survey suggested the ten leading websites linked to Al Qaeda have 125,000 registered members between them and may be attracting as many as 250,000 visits per day. The network is currently circulating a new English magazine produced by the Pakistan Taliban, which calls on supporters in the UK to murder teenage human rights campaigner Malala Yousufzai. Another possibility, which will be considered by counter-terrorism officers, is that the minds of the killers of the British soldier were poisoned in a mosque or even in prison, an increasingly popular recruiting ground for groups linked to Al Qaeda. It was not clear whether the men were on the intelligence radar of the security services or were ‘clean skins’, not known to police. Some witnesses claimed the soldier was beheaded but there was no immediate confirmation of how he died. What is not in doubt is that he suffered a terrible knife attack. The head and the sword have a specific place in the rhetoric, heraldry and history of Islam. There is no shortage of passages in the Koran that jihadists can interpret to support their propaganda. Vigil in the street: Three women bravely stand near the body of the soldier, saying prayers and trying to offer comfort . Chapter 47, Verse 4, is a favourite of those with evil intentions: ‘When you meet the unbelievers (in battle), smite their necks until you have crushed them . . .’ Jihadists have used this as justification for the scores of beheadings of non-believers in Iraq.When the word ‘behead’ is typed into Google, the search engine automatically suggests completing the sentence with ‘those who insult Islam’ – suggesting this is the most common search term beginning with that word. The attack in Woolwich is one of several attempts to kill soldiers and MPs. Student Roshonara Choudhry became a heroine in jihadi circles for stabbing MP Stephen Timms during his constituency surgery in Beckton, East London, in May 2010. Mr Timms survived. A cell of terrorists from Luton was jailed last month at Woolwich Crown Court for discussing an attack on a Territorial Army barracks with a bomb attached to a remote controlled car. Three weeks ago six men pleaded guilty in the same court to planning an attack on an EDL rally in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, using machetes and sawn-off shotguns and a home-made bomb. Placards calling for anyone who insults the prophet Mohammed to be beheaded were waved during an angry protest in London in 2006. One man, Mizanur Rahman, who carried a placard that said ‘Behead those who insult Islam’, was later found guilty of inciting racial hatred. Hoodie: A Help for Heroes top like the one the murdered soldier was wearing . The soldier killed by two crazed . fanatics just yards from the Woolwich Barracks was wearing a Help for . Heroes top when he was attacked. The . young serviceman was hit by a car and crushed into a road sign on the . street in south-east London before he was brutally murdered. Video . footage showed the dead man was wearing a dark blue top with white . writing on it - which is believed to be the same as the Help for Heroes . hoodie (right). The killers . attacked him with a collection of weapons including meat cleavers and . knives before waiting for police to arrive, their hands covered in . blood. Today members of the public were donating to the charity which helps wounded troops with their rehabilitation. One . man called Allan Beattie who donated to the charity wrote: 'In memory . of the soldier brutally murdered yesterday - rest in peace - and a thank . you to all of our brave service men and women who do so much for us' Kelly . Alexander, who also gave to the charity wrote: 'Last night a black . cloud went over our country,it will never be the same again,Rip to this . young man brutally slain in his home country.I salute you x' To donate to Help for Heroes yourself, go to www.justgiving.com/helpforheroes . Murdered: The soldier (left) appears to be wearing a dark blue Help for Heroes hoodie or t-shirt . How . the horror unfolded: The car rammed into a serving soldier, crushing . him against a road sign. The attackers then brutally murdered the . serviceman in broad daylight before they waited for Metropolitan Police . firearms officers to arrive who gunned them down .
Articles in magazine have urged people to carry out attacks with knives .
Boston Marathon bombers used instructions in first issue to build device .
Attack has chilling echoes of previous plot to behead British Muslim soldier .
Inspire is produced by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and contains exhortations to carry out so-called 'lone wolf' terrorist attacks by self-motivated groups and individuals. Pictured is an advert from the magazine . The Woolwich terror attack has chilling echoes of a previous plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier. Five men were jailed in 2008 after police smashed a Birmingham-based terror cell’s plan to burn a kidnapped soldier’s body and parade his head on a stick as a warning to other Muslims against joining the British Army. Thankfully, ringleader Parviz Khan failed to identify a soldier to target before they were detained by the security services. Khan had links to Al Qaeda in Pakistan and said in a conversation bugged by MI5: ‘Like that, I think you cut it off like you cut a pig. Then you put it on a stick and we say, this is to all Muslims man [who] want to join the Kuffar (non-believer) army – this is what will happen to you. ‘Then we throw the body, burn it, send the video to the chacha [Al Qaeda leaders]. The chacha can release it there. These people gonna go crazy.’ The words of Khan, jailed for life, were an ominous warning. Last night, as armed police guarded two men suspected of killing and trying to behead a soldier near Woolwich barracks, detectives were urgently trying to establish how the killers were radicalised. Officers were checking jihadi websites where preachers of hate urge Islamic extremists to behead soldiers. The authorities will also be investigating whether the attackers had been spurred into action by reading Al Qaeda’s English-language magazine, Inspire. The publication is produced by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and contains exhortations to carry out so-called ‘lone wolf’ terrorist attacks by self-motivated groups and individuals. Articles and ‘jihadi advertisements’ have urged people to carry out attacks with knives and to run people down in vehicles. The Boston Marathon bombers used instructions contained in the first issue of the magazine to build and detonate their devices. The guide was called ‘How to build a bomb in the kitchen of your mom’. Inspire has been linked to at least 15 terrorism cases and Al Qaeda made an abortive attempt to publish the 11th issue of the magazine just days ago. It is believed that intelligence agencies intervened in the publication process, meaning that the file was blank when people who downloaded it tried to open it. A previous issue was doctored so a section on bomb-making was replaced with cupcake recipes. Inciting hatred: A Muslim protest in London in 2006 . Documents such as Inspire are circulated on a network of websites which are attracting large audiences. A recent survey suggested the ten leading websites linked to Al Qaeda have 125,000 registered members between them and may be attracting as many as 250,000 visits per day. The network is currently circulating a new English magazine produced by the Pakistan Taliban, which calls on supporters in the UK to murder teenage human rights campaigner Malala Yousufzai. Another possibility, which will be considered by counter-terrorism officers, is that the minds of the killers of the British soldier were poisoned in a mosque or even in prison, an increasingly popular recruiting ground for groups linked to Al Qaeda. It was not clear whether the men were on the intelligence radar of the security services or were ‘clean skins’, not known to police. Some witnesses claimed the soldier was beheaded but there was no immediate confirmation of how he died. What is not in doubt is that he suffered a terrible knife attack. The head and the sword have a specific place in the rhetoric, heraldry and history of Islam. There is no shortage of passages in the Koran that jihadists can interpret to support their propaganda. Vigil in the street: Three women bravely stand near the body of the soldier, saying prayers and trying to offer comfort . Chapter 47, Verse 4, is a favourite of those with evil intentions: ‘When you meet the unbelievers (in battle), smite their necks until you have crushed them . . .’ Jihadists have used this as justification for the scores of beheadings of non-believers in Iraq.When the word ‘behead’ is typed into Google, the search engine automatically suggests completing the sentence with ‘those who insult Islam’ – suggesting this is the most common search term beginning with that word. The attack in Woolwich is one of several attempts to kill soldiers and MPs. Student Roshonara Choudhry became a heroine in jihadi circles for stabbing MP Stephen Timms during his constituency surgery in Beckton, East London, in May 2010. Mr Timms survived. A cell of terrorists from Luton was jailed last month at Woolwich Crown Court for discussing an attack on a Territorial Army barracks with a bomb attached to a remote controlled car. Three weeks ago six men pleaded guilty in the same court to planning an attack on an EDL rally in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, using machetes and sawn-off shotguns and a home-made bomb. Placards calling for anyone who insults the prophet Mohammed to be beheaded were waved during an angry protest in London in 2006. One man, Mizanur Rahman, who carried a placard that said ‘Behead those who insult Islam’, was later found guilty of inciting racial hatred. Hoodie: A Help for Heroes top like the one the murdered soldier was wearing . The soldier killed by two crazed . fanatics just yards from the Woolwich Barracks was wearing a Help for . Heroes top when he was attacked. The . young serviceman was hit by a car and crushed into a road sign on the . street in south-east London before he was brutally murdered. Video . footage showed the dead man was wearing a dark blue top with white . writing on it - which is believed to be the same as the Help for Heroes . hoodie (right). The killers . attacked him with a collection of weapons including meat cleavers and . knives before waiting for police to arrive, their hands covered in . blood. Today members of the public were donating to the charity which helps wounded troops with their rehabilitation. One . man called Allan Beattie who donated to the charity wrote: 'In memory . of the soldier brutally murdered yesterday - rest in peace - and a thank . you to all of our brave service men and women who do so much for us' Kelly . Alexander, who also gave to the charity wrote: 'Last night a black . cloud went over our country,it will never be the same again,Rip to this . young man brutally slain in his home country.I salute you x' To donate to Help for Heroes yourself, go to www.justgiving.com/helpforheroes . Murdered: The soldier (left) appears to be wearing a dark blue Help for Heroes hoodie or t-shirt . How . the horror unfolded: The car rammed into a serving soldier, crushing . him against a road sign. The attackers then brutally murdered the . serviceman in broad daylight before they waited for Metropolitan Police . firearms officers to arrive who gunned them down .
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