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June 4, 2013 Special Dispatch No. 5328

Second Issue of Taliban Magazine 'Azan' Lauds Individual Jihad By Boston And Woolwich Attackers, Cites Koran And Prophet Muhammad's Sayings To Justify 'Martyrdom Bombings'

June 4, 2013
Afghanistan, Pakistan | Special Dispatch No. 5328

The second issue of Azan, a jihadi magazine published by the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan and released through a jihadi internet forum, lauds the recent Boston bombings and the Woolwich attack in the UK, rejects the Western media's descriptions of jihadi martyrdom attacks as "suicide" bombings, and cites verses from the Koran and Prophet Muhammad's sayings to justify martyrdom missions in which jihadi fighters know in advance that they will die....

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