Al-Qaeda magazine offers tips on how to look good before you blow yourself up

by Araminta Wordsworth
The National Post of Canada
March 15, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1203/al-qaeda-magazine-offers-tips-on-how-to-look-good

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Full Comment's Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today: Remember the pictures of Tanya — a.k.a. Patty Hearst — of the Symbionese Liberation Front brandishing an MI carbine during a San Francisco bank robbery?

That was so 1974. Today's female terrorists wear niqabs and headscarves, like the feared "black widows" of Chechnya. But it's not all guns and martyrdom. Now it seems lady jihadists have a magazine to call their own. Al-Shamikha (The Majestic Woman) features a cover picture of a woman in a niqab, toting a sub-machine gun. The 31-page glossy magazine is — understandably — available only on the Internet. Skeptics might also point out that Internet hoaxes are not unheard of, and April 1 is nearing.

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