US officials say that the September attack on “Khorasan,” a US-invented term for a faction within Jabhat al-Nusra, failed even worse than previously reported, and the leaders previously reported killed actually survived.
Though officials claimed to be tracking Khorasan for a long time, experts believe the term was primarily invented to sell the attacks as something other than on Nusra, which in addition to being al-Qaeda is also a close ally of the “moderate” rebels the US always hypes in Syria.
The group’s leaders, such as they are, were al-Qaeda members previously claimed as leaders of other dubious plots, such as the “al-Qaeda in Iran” wing that was so popularly hyped during the Iraq War.
Now, officials say the leaders were in league with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Yemeni faction, and were learning bomb-making from the people who brought you the failed underwear bomber. That is the primary basis on which they’re being dubbed an “imminent threat,” and one that is actively plotting against the US. And if they weren’t plotting before, they certainly are after the failed attacks on them.
Is there anything these Pentagon geniuses are actually good at, other than stealing trillions from US taxpayers?
whooda thunk. I guess they'll just have to expand their war now.
“imminent threat,” and one that is actively plotting against the US…
Oboomer is already out panhandling. The American taxpayer will naturally
have to pony up (more) dollars to the MIC – in order to keep (us) safe
from those (evil) terrorist (bogeymen) who (were) supposedly (killed),
but, (somehow) managed to return from the dead.
Sounds like a (good) plot for a (scary) Halloween yarn.
"leaders previously reported killed actually survived"
Maybe they're immortal, as well as being ten feet tall, completely irrational, and hating us for our microwaves…
Surprised? At least the hated Bush Administration had names and pretty pictures of the Al-Qaeda agents and other assorted Taliban goons to show off whom they killed and captured.
Chasing ghosts is a good way to keep up the sucking sound of taxpayer $ going to the Pentagon.
I lost count of the number of times "al-Qaeda's number 2 leader" was thought to have been "killed in a drone strike"…at least once in almost every country where al-Qaeda was said to operate (or the USG wanted to bomb). Khorasan seems to serve much the same purpose, providing an "imminent threat" that allows the USG to bomb wedding parties, funerals, gatherings of elders, or children carrying farm tools back from the fields. I'm sure it's just an amusing coincidence that some of the letters in the name Khorasan can be rearranged to spell Snark. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunting_of_the_… also subtitled "An Agony of Fits."
Those must be some pretty tough guys- when we decided to unload on this 'Khorasan' outfit they numbered about 50 members, and our first round of airstrikes killed 30 of those, according to our unbiased military sources. So in all of those first strikes, and all the ones that have followed, those leaders have managed to escape unscathed, and even managed to recruit MORE fighters into their ranks so as to present a clear and present danger to the United States?
I tell you, if that's the case we really need to be courting these guys to give them a job teaching us how to be more effective fighters and recruiters.
Khorasan. Sounds like a designer drug for old men who hallucinate, or have invisible friends. Or maybe a linoleum, pine scented aftershave ?