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, received little attention in the traditional Western news media. Rachel Maddow later linked the "Williams" character to "Rakan the Lone Warrior," a popular Middle Eastern 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, ..."