Boston bombers got IED instructions from online Al Qaeda mag: official

The brothers suspected of planting deadly bombs at the Boston Marathon may have gotten their ideas -- and even instructions on how to make explosives from household items -- from an English-language website that Al Qaeda uses to radicalize and recruit Westerners.

A U.S. official told Fox News that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, built the bombs with instructions from Inspire magazine -- an English-language online magazine published by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

The publication is believed to have been started by Samir Khan, a U.S. citizen who moved from his family's home in North Carolina to Yemen, where he was later killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011 along with Al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki. The magazine includes articles penned by Khan and others, like "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom."

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The Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's (AQAP) fifth issue of its English-language e-magazine, Inspire.

Investigators say a radical brand of Islam appears to have motivated the two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon, but say they have found no indication the brothers were associated with any terrorist groups. The older brother was the driving force behind the attack, a source close to the investigation told Fox News.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged Monday in his hospital room, where he remained in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the throat and other injuries suffered during his attempted getaway. His older brother, Tamerlan, died Friday after a fierce gun battle with police.

Solusi Sehat