GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — A copy of an al Qaeda magazine was found inside the Guantanamo Bay detention camp holding terror suspects, a military prosecutor has revealed.
The disclosure by Navy Cmdr. Andrea Lockhart came Wednesday during a pre-trial hearing of suspected al Qaeda bomber Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, according to The Miami Herald.
Lockhart was defending a recently implemented procedure to tighten the screening of mail sent by lawyers to their clients at the camp when she revealed — apparently inadvertently — that a copy of Inspire magazine was found in a cell.
Inspire magazine, which calls itself a publication of the Yemeni-based group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, includes fiery jihadist rhetoric and once published an article titled “How to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom.”
Pentagon and prison spokespeople could not immediately provide details about which edition of the magazine reached Guantanamo and whether any inmate had seen it, The Herald reported.
There are currently 171 terror suspects held at the prison.
Defense attorneys for Nashiri, who is accused of planning the 2000 bomb attack that killed 17 US sailors aboard the USS Cole, flatly denied the magazine’s discovery was a reference to their client’s case, The Herald reported.