It was no surprise when the Obama Administration began attacking ISIS targets in Syria last night. What was surprising was that the US also attacked a group known as Khorasan, then hyped what a huge, “imminent” threat they supposedly are.
Bizarrely, the history of the Khorasan faction is virtually non-existent, and officials weren’t even mentioning the group until last week. Estimated at 50 fighters, the group is suddenly a huge pretext for military intervention, even though today’s attack reportedly killed 30 of them.
Rep. Peter King (R – NY) claimed to be familiar with the group, saying the administration had been telling members of Congress about Khorasan for “several months,” and that even the name of the group was supposed to be “top secret.”
Others claimed the group had, apart from its name, been known to exist for over a year now. That something al-Qaeda linked was known to exist in Aleppo was hardly news, but was it really what is being presented as Khorasan now?
It seems unlikely. The group’s putative leader Muhsin al-Fadhli was being claimed by the State Department to be the leader of “al-Qaeda in Iran” as recently as May, which doesn’t exactly point to him being active in some super dangerous group in Syria for a solid year.
Indeed, the whole al-Qaeda in Iran conceit from the US has been extremely dubious and primarily thrown out there when things in Afghanistan (or before that Iraq) weren’t going well and they needed a scapegoat. The Khorasan name seems better fitted to this putative faction, since Khorasan is a region of eastern Iran.
The Khorasan plots appear to be lifted straight out of 2009-2010, accusing the new group of scientifically dubious bomb plots involving explosive clothing that were lifted straight out of the allegations against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) back then, when the US was looking for a pretext to launch a drone war there. The other allegations seem to be a rehash of 2013 claims about al-Qaeda inventing a magic liquid that can turn clothes into undetectable bombs, a scare story that was created, and died almost immediately over lack of evidence.
ISIS/ISIL/IS is so yesterday –
only reason US has attacked Syria is because Khorasan, who only want to attack Western targets, had ripened plots! and if you believe that…
Al Qaeda-linked target of strikes in Syria obsessed with next 9/11
The group takes its name from a Middle Eastern region that jihadists believe will be host to a final war that brings about the appearance of the Mahdi, the messianic “End Times” figure of Islam,” according to Mauro…
On Tuesday, coalition bombers attacked around Idlib and Aleppo after intelligence showed Khorasan’s plots were ripening…
Al Fadhli is known to have headed up an Iranian Al Qaeda cell…
It’s these repeated attempts to attack the West by this shadowy group that has most alarmed U.S. officials… http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/23/shadowy-a…
A region of eastern Iran? Perhaps the next international terrorist group should name itself "Al Washington". Just so that's its clear what its target and/or origin is. Like thanking your creator by naming your child "gift from god" at baptism.
There were 4 kids playing on the beach in Gaza, give them a name and lets roll.
Khorasan were created to provide cover for going to war…
CBS: At U.N., Obama builds support for a mission he's already started
In a letter sent to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power laid out the legal rationale for the air strikes. She asserted that the U.S. was acting on behalf of Iraq, which requested the United States' help in defending itself against ISIS. Power cited "the right of individual and collective self-defense" in Article 51 of the U.N. Charter to justify strikes in Syria.
"States must be able to defend themselves…
The strikes against ISIS were conducted with the help of five Arab nations, but the United States unilaterally went after the al Qaeda-affiliated group Khorasan. Power argued in her letter that those strikes were "to address terrorist threats that they pose to the United States and our partners and allies."… http://www.cbsnews.com/news/at-u-n-obama-builds-s…
Strange how revelations about the group and airstrikes occurred on the same day…Glad our gov't never lies about anything tho.
I wonder if there are gnomes running around the Pentagon planning groups with the Nostradamus quatrain about the anti-Christ in mind? This could be the "big one!" Wait, can't be true until Faux Noise reports it as fact.
And I'm seriously not surprised that Rep. King (IRA-NY) is familiar with Khorasan…he has a penchant for terrorist groups, after all, and keeping the "fear factor" high and active.
Since King was a bag man for the IRA I have no doubt he is an expert on terrorist groups.
I figured it was a dodge so that Obama could claim to be applying the AUMF since ISIS is no longer affiliated with al Qaeda they found a few guys in Syria that were. We should avoid letting lawyers run our affairs in the future because they seem to have less respect for the law. Perhaps familiarity breeds contempt.
The Dems must stir up a new hornets' nest now so that Hillary will have a new war of her very own in 2018.
Look at the map of Iran, Google the name, khorasan is a province of Iran.
I am so sick of this whole rotten business- my own government, just making up the rules from day to day as it suits them. I'm about ready to find a quiet corner of the world to park myself for the rest of my days and just be done with it.
Good luck finding that…Uncle Sugar has long fingers and a penchant for screwing things up.
I'll have to implement my plan, then- buy an island somewhere off the coast, declare my island as a sovereign nation and declare war on the US, then let my security forces get beaten (well, two dogs and maybe a batman) and then get rich off of the foreign aid I'll get to rebuild my shattered nation.
Sounds legit.
Ill be your foreign minister (50/50 condition.
If they lied to you about WMD in Iraq, why would you believe a word they have to tell you about anything?
ISIS, Al Qaeda, khorasan………..just another name for Emanuel Goldstein