Jihad & Terrorism Studies Project

January 17, 2011 Special Dispatch No.3518 AQAP's English-Language Inspire Magazine Hails Swedish Bomber Taimour Al-Abdaly and British Attacker Roshonara Choudhry, Calls Their Actions Examples of 'Borderless Loyalty' To Islam The latest issue of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's (AQAP) English-language magazine Inspire, published on January 16, 2011, featured an article by Muhammad Al-Sana'ani (also written Al-San'ani) dedicated to Swedish suicide-bomber Taimour Al-Abdaly and British national Roshonara Choudhry, who stabbed U.K. parliament member Stephen Timms in May 2010. The article, titled "Roshonara and Taimour: Followers of the Borderless Loyalty," hails both individuals for their actions in fulfilling their religious duty, calling their jihad a fard 'ayn (individual obligation). The author further uses the case of Roshonara Choudhry, in which a woman rather than a man "answered the call of Allah" to incite those Muslim men to follow in her footsteps, saying: "To the men of the Ummah: Take the example of this woman and you will find success in the afterlife." According to the author, both individuals acted based on what he calls a "borderless loyalty" to Islam. The full text of this report is available to MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Subscribers. Subscription information is available at this link. JTTM subscribers can visit this page to view the report.