Bin Laden's new women's magazine

[MaggieMae]

Seriously.

I didn't want to click on it, not wanting to red flag DHS, so I didn't go looking for the actual magazine, but here's Fareed Zakaria's transcript from yesterday's GPS, where he tells about the magazine and includes a few excerpts.

CNN.com - Transcripts

ZAKARIA: Time now for the segment that makes you go, "What in the World?"

You'll often hear that the magazine market is fairly saturated. It's a tough industry to break into. One group thinks differently - al Qaeda. That's right. The terrorist group led by Osama Bin Laden.

Last year, their media wing debuted a glossy English language magazine called "Inspire." As we told you at the time, it had all the works, a letter from the editor, an index, feature stories, one of the articles was called "I'm proud to be a traitor to America." Another had instructions teaching you how to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom and so on.

Well, they're back. The marketing guys at al Qaeda have identified another gap in the market. They've got the want to be jihadist English-speaking male market covered. Now, they're after ladies who launch - launch terror attacks, that is. It's being dubbed "Cosmo for Waziristan." Take a look.

It's called "Al-Shamikha," which translates loosely as "The Majestic Woman." The cover story, "Meeting the Wife of a Mojahed". The crack (ph) team of GPS has been flipping through the glossy and translating some of the more interesting pieces.

Page 13, while "Elle" or "Cosmo" might have steps to a perfect tan, this one has steps on the path to Jihad. This article on jewelry tells Jihaddy Janes that they have the right to buy jewelry, but it says they must be willing sell it off to support jihad. Then, there are beauty tips. Avoid the sun, it says, which you can do if you minimize leaving home and so on.

The grooming advice aside, this is a magazine that's actively calling on women to support terrorism. Now, women have long been used as subversive, sometimes counterintuitive options to launch terror attacks. That's not new.

But basically, al Qaeda has now gone from conducting the most horrific terror attacks, September 11th almost 10 years ago, to launching fluffy magazines. It remains one of their desperate attempts to stay relevant.

The recent events in the Middle East, which have been completely overwhelming to al Qaeda have shown that regular Arabs want modernity, jobs and democracy more than they want an Islamic caliphate. Women are part of that yearning for change and for modernity. They played a key role in the changes that have taken place this year from Egypt to Tunisia. They continue to play a role in Bahrain and even in Libya.

If al Qaeda is trying to reach that particular market, Arab women and its best effort is this, advice on how to get hitched to a terrorist, it makes one wonder, the world must be a safer place.

Al Qaeda is dying.