Drone Was a Victim of The American Middle Class to a Media War to Al-qaeda

Charlotte, NC – From the basement of his parents in a part of town where houses have many rooms, and most children go to school, Samir Khan blogged his way into the upper echelons of Al Qaeda , leading a media war that he believed the right as important as the fight with weapons on the ground.

His parents – all accounts controlled torque observed which shifted in southern Queensland in 2004 – were concerned about the increasingly sharp, and the philosophy of his son growing medium that has exposed.

They have turned more than once in their religious communities to highlight their college-aged son of the dangers of this type of thinking and behavior.

It does not work. In 2009, he left a comfortable life in Charlotte for Yemen, the jihadists began a magazine called Inspire slick that the current policy, and as articles written in a beautiful American vernacular, and has continued to dodge the efforts of the digitally Civil government and to stop his self-described “media jihad”.

His life ended in Yemen on Friday, when Mr. Khan, 25, was killed in a drone attack that also killed the radical Shiite Anwar Al-Awlaki and two other men, according to two U.S. officials and Yemeni.

The Islamic Society of Greater Charlotte, met some of the hundreds of Muslim Friday prayers was talking about Mr Khan.

“This is a very dangerous path when you go kill someone like this,” Suleiman said Ayeb, 25, a resident physician. “He was an editor. It was written right.”

Others believe that the pain of the family, who lost his son, regardless of the nature of the activities of the boy.

Father of Mr. Khan, Zafar Khan, a senior information technology and highly respected, a regular worshiper who bought his family a brick two-story house near the golf course. He often talked cricket with Yasin Raja, the Pakistani-American.

“When Samir was caught by something that was on his own,” said Raja.

Steve Glocke, who lives opposite the family, noted Mr. Khan grow from a teenager who plays basketball with his brother warmly on the street in a quiet but radical young. When Mr. Khan was transferred to Yemen, he said, “I asked him if he was OK, and they said they did not know.”

His parents were worried even before the family moved to Queens. Mustapha Elturk, imam and president of the Islamic organization in North America, met the family in the mid-1990s in a program at a mosque in Flushing, Queens. Mr Khan was interested in Islam as a way to “stay away from pressure from his teenage days,” he said.

But after the September 11 attacks, the attraction of Mr. Khan grew that militant sites on the Internet and his radical attitudes to the point where his father intervened.

“He did everything possible to help your child meet all kinds of imams and scholars to dissuade him from these views,” said Elturk, who spoke with the father of Mr. Khan, Friday to offer his condolences. “It will give the impression that would change.”

Early intervention by members of the local community is essential to prevent the radicalization of young Muslims, says Sue Myrick, a member of Congress who represents the part of Charlotte, where Khan lived.

Latest issue of Inspire Khan was released this week. Was 20 pages shorter than the others, and primarily for September 11. Lost part of the impertinence of the first editions, which describes what to expect about jihad and titles like “make a bomb in his mother’s kitchen.”

In this issue, it is clear that he believes his role in the war. “While the U.S. has focused on the fight against the Mujahideen in the mountains of Afghanistan and the streets of Iraq,” he writes, “the media jihadis and their supporters were in fifth gear.”