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The group behind the failed Christmas Day bombing has released the second installment of its new English-language magazine, Inspire, featuring a North Carolina man who says he is “proud to be a traitor to America.”

“I am a traitor to America because my religion requires me to be one,” writes 24-year-old Samir Khan, a U.S. citizen now believed to be in Yemen. “We pledge to wage jihad for the rest of our lives until either we implant Islam all over the world or meet our Lord as bearers of Islam.”

Khan’s piece strongly criticizes the United States for “kill[ing] millions of Muslims around the world” and “get[ting] away with it wearing a tuxedo.” It also describes how he become a devout Muslim and “could no longer reside in America as a compliant citizen.”

After the first edition of Inspire was released in July, U.S. officials told Fox News that Khan was likely a key player behind the magazine, with his old website and blog’s graphics bearing a strong resemblance to the graphics found in the magazine.

The latest edition of the magazine, 74 pages long, also features “exclusive” comments by radical cleric Anwar Awlaki on “The Mardin Declaration,” a condemnation of terrorism issued in March by Muslim scholars meeting in the Turkish city of Mardin.

In his comments, the U.S.-born Awlaki, who is now hiding in Yemen and has been tied to the Fort Hood shootings and the failed Christmas Day plot, calls the declaration a “disgrace” and “not worth the ink and the paper it’s written on.”

The magazine’s cover story, meanwhile, relates to operations taking place in Abyan, a region of Yemen where militants have carried out deadly attacks on Yemen’s military forces. Yemen’s government has been struggling to root out Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, the group that trained and equipped Nigerian Umar F. Abdulmutallab for his bombing attempt over Detroit in December.

The latest edition of the magazine was obtained by the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute, which provided a copy of it to Fox News.

In July, after the first edition of Inspire magazine was released, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis issued a note to local law enforcement across the country warning them that the magazine “encourages Western readers to conduct attacks in the West and to join the ‘jihad.’”

The first edition included articles by Usama bin Laden and Awlaki. What’s more, in an article titled “Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom,” the magazine provided “step-by-step instructions for constructing a pipe bomb using readily accessible items,” according to the note.

In the most recent edition, the magazine suggests Muslims use pickup trucks “as a mowing machine, not to mow grass but [to] mow down the enemies of Allah.”

“DHS and the FBI are concerned … that the sophisticated, colloquial English-language magazine could appeal to certain Western individuals and inspire them to conduct attacks in the United States in the future,” the DHS note in July said. “As AQAP’s first official publication geared towards English-speaking readers, Inspire reflects the group’s interest in reaching a Western audience and is a significant addition to the group’s media campaign.”

– Fox News’ Catherine Herridge contributed to this report.