If Guantanamo were really one of al Qaeda’s principal recruiting tools, as President Obama and members of his administration have repeatedly claimed, then the facility would probably be referenced regularly in the terror group’s propaganda. It is not. Instead, other themes dominate Osama bin Laden’s and Ayman al Zawahiri’s messaging.

The latest illustration of Guantanamo’s irrelevance to al Qaeda’s recruiting efforts was released online this week with the publication of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s new edition of Inspire. It is the fifth edition of the all-English webzine AQAP has published.