As more information has emerged related to the death of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki , there are now reports that Samir Khan, the creator and editor of AQAP's Inspire magazine , was also killed in the airstrike. Khan, a longtime publisher of jihadist material, was born in Saudi Arabia but raised in the United States. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, he began to publish an English-language pro-jihadist blog and eventually established jihadist websites and an internet magazine called Jihad Recollections. It was the artistic similarities between Jihad Recollections and Inspire that helped identify Khan as the editor of Inspire. Khan left his parents' home in Charlotte, N.C., in 2009 to move to Yemen after he learned the FBI was investigating him for publishing jihadist material.