yes prior to al aulaqi's death contact was made to the university in saana and directly with the editor both now deceased to verify the appropriateness to mirror their publication and the correct form for citation in journal publications al aulaqi indicated that the content of the magazines shall be openly distributed and is public domain on the release date of mirror sponsor received a message from current editor and distributor indicating availability of and requesting open distribution the majority of their content is released initially via various forum sites due to infrastructure failures posted to archive org and sent to various mirrors for public redistribution directly from the source producer there is public logs of exactly this announcement process from the originator