Rakan Ben Williams is a name used by various Islamist propaganda outlets to identify a supposed Westerner who converted to Islam and became an al-Qaeda linked terrorist. For example, on March 10, 2006 a warning was issued through the Global Islamic Media Front stating that Rakan Ben Williams was about to commit an act of terrorism in the US.

Despite attention in the right-wing blogosphere, "Williams's" fancied exploits, such as a pre-announced assassination of Silvio Berlusconi

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, received little attention in the traditional Western news media.
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 later linked the "Williams" character to "Rakan the Lone Warrior," a popular Middle Easter comic book hero: "So to recap, today‘s al-Qaeda news, a probably fake American al-Qaeda convert named after a comic book character raised by a saber-toothed tiger wants President Obama to not be like LeVar Burton

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