Global militant organization Al-Qaeda has released an online English magazine that teaches potential militants how to cause traffic accidents and torch cars.

According to a report by Reuters, Al-Qaeda, the global militant organization founded by Osama bin Laden, has released a magazine in English on their website that offers advice to would-be militants on how to "blow up parking lots", cause traffic accidents and torch cars. The magazine was released by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which is known to be the Islamist movement's most active branch.

The magazine also asks France to back off from Mali and names 11 public figures in the West, including author Salman Rushdie, as targets for attacks. The magazine states that these 11 people are "wanted dead or alive for crimes against Islam."

AQAP, known to be based in the lawless state of Yemen has, in the past, tried to demolish international airliners. The Western governments also see it as a threat to the oil-producing Gulf States and major crude shipment routes.

In a section of the magazine titled "open source jihad", the magazine offers advice to people on how to cause traffic accidents and torch cars with tips like "don't spill petrol on yourself", and covering road bends with oil to cause accidents and crashes.

An editorial of the magazine also warns France to pull back from Mali or the consequences could be as dire as the incidents similar to the U.S. experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, which according to the movement, made "them bite their fingertips in regret."

Out of the 11 public figures that the magazine has mentioned as prime targets, Salman Rushdie is first on the list because of his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verse", which many Muslims thought to be blasphemous.

Others include the Canadian-Somalian activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Dutch politician Geert Wilder. They are both strong critics of Islam. The U.S. pastor Terry Jones, who staged a public burning of copies of the Qur'an, is also one of the public figures mentioned in the magazine.