State Department with Condolences…for what?

The second issue of an English-language Al Qaeda magazine called Inspire includes an article by an American jihadist in which he proclaims “I am proud to be a traitor” and instructions on how to mow down government workers on their lunch hour in Washington, D.C.

Simply put there are two issues announced in this issue of the Al Qaeda magazine: One, “I am proud to be a traitor” and instructions on how to kill government workers in mass during their lunch hour that should cause great attention to national security.

Samir Khan, an American citizen who left for Yemen last year, is believed to be the creator of the web magazine Inspire, which U.S. officials say is published by Al Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate, Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and is designed to recruit Western jihadis to launch terror attacks. In a newly released issue, Khan writes about turning his back on America and becoming “Al Qaeda to the core.“

“I praise Allah and laugh at the intelligence agencies that were watching me for all those years,” writes Khan. “Back in North Carolina, the FBI dispatched a spy on me who pretended to convert to Islam.” Khan says he now “could no longer reside in America as a compliant citizen. … I am proud to be a traitor to America.”

This is not that big a deal – or so it seems with several special interest groups and those again who misinterpret the Constitution of the United States. It seems to us that when one admits to being a traitor against America, they therefore become an enemy of the state, enemy combatant as well as in order for this individual to have been accepted by Al Qaeda he most certainly would have had to renounce his allegiance to America and in doing so he naturally by the same Constitution lost his American citizenship; subsequently, his rights to due-process.

The first issue of Inspire, released internationally on the internet this summer, included articles allegedly penned by Osama bin Laden. Ayman Zawahiri and radical Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been linked to the Fort Hood shootings and to the failed Christmas Day bombing of Northwest flight 253. It also gave step-by-step instructions in the article Make A Bomb In The Kitchen Of Your Mom on how jihadis can make a bomb “from ingredients available in any kitchen in the world.”

Khan was born in Saudi Arabia but was raised in New York and then lived in North Carolina, where he operated web sites from his parent’s basement, including one that praised Osama bin Laden and showed footage of attacks against US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.

And whist in the company and protection of Anwar al-Awlaki, found out what it would be like to be on the other end of a drone released missile.

Now we’d like to know what’s up with Khan’s parents, the Hough’s, who openly admitted that they had tried to intervene. Khan authored a radical blog while he lived in Charlotte – one his father, Hough and others unsuccessfully tried to persuade him to abandon his apparent publishing of this Internet magazine.

Then, in 2009, Khan moved to Yemen to produce al-Qaida’s Inspire, an English-language online magazine. In one early edition, Khan said he was “proud to be a traitor to America.”

The phone call came a day after the family released a statement through Hough that condemned the “assassination” of their 25-year-old son – a U.S. citizen – and said they were “appalled” that they had not heard from the U.S. government to discuss their son’s remains or answer questions about why Khan was not afforded due process.

“The Fifth Amendment states that no citizen shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law” yet our government assassinated two if its citizens. Was this style of execution the only solution? Why couldn’t there have been a capture and trial? Where is the justice? As we mourn our son, we must ask these questions.”

The U.S. State Department made a phone call to the family of Al Qaeda propagandist Samir Khan to offer the government’s condolences on his death during a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, a department spokesman confirms.

Why was this action remotely necessary? It wasn’t, neither was it civility nor did it have to be made. We want to go on the record as saying “…play with fire and you’re going to get burned…”

Moreover, the haphazard attempt at political correctness by the State Department shows weakness and certainly not strength. At a vulnerable time in America’s history, we do not want to go apologizing for people who openly state this vile things at a country which one’s citizenship would and should have been revoked.