Posted on 08/18/2010 4:41:34 PM PDT by markomalley
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The FBI is reportedly investigating whether a young Muslim man who spent most of his life in the United States is the editor of an al-Qaida magazine.
Samir Khan, who had been living in the Charlotte, N.C., area since 2004, is now believed to be in Yemen, National Public Radio reported Wednesday. Several Muslim men in the area told NPR they had been questioned by FBI agents and subpoenaed to give grand jury testimony.
Inspire, an online magazine, is written in correct and colloquial English and includes articles such as what to pack for a jihad mission. One headline reads "Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom."
Khan, 24, a U.S. citizen, was born in Saudi Arabia. His family moved to New York when he was 7.
While he was a student at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte in 2005, Khan began a blog with an Arabic title that means "a martyr soon if God wills."
Jibril Hough of the Islamic Center of Charlotte told The Charlotte Observer six men, including Khan's father, tried to convince him he was on the "wrong road" during meetings in 2007 and 2008.
"He didn't listen," Hough said.
Racism and bigotry. Nancy should have whoever accused this boy investigated.
A mosque will be built on Ft. Bragg to open the dialogue.
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