Posted on 11/06/2014 8:43:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A U.S. airstrike in Syria appears to have killed a key French jihadist who is part of the militant Khorasan Group, a U.S. defense official said Thursday.
The strike happened overnight Wednesday near Idlib, according to the official, who has access to the latest information about the strikes.
The U.S. fired at a vehicle it believes carried David Drugeon, a skilled bomb-maker in his 20s who also has ties to core al Qaeda members in Pakistan.
The Khorasan Group is made up of senior al Qaeda leaders who have moved into Syria.
The United States targeted the Khorasan Group with a series of strikes in Syria in September.
Those attacks came amid intelligence that suggested the group was plotting against a target in the U.S. homeland as well as other Western targets, a senior U.S. official told CNN at the time.
Intelligence indicated that Khorasan was in the final stages of planning terrorist attacks in the West, including against American aviation.
Sources said that among the devices Khorasan's bomb-makers were developing to try to beat airport security were bombs made out of clothing dipped in explosive solution and explosives concealed in personal electronics.
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Bill Ayers was in Syria?
I think they are making this stuff up.
We’re still bombing used pick-up trucks with $100,000 munitions and missiles?
That oughta piss hussein off.
Would not surprise me to hear that odumbo put a stop to all missle attacks against his “bros”.
Guillaume Ayers.
> ...appears to have killed a key French jihadist...
More spin. He’s a dead terrorist, he isn’t French, he isn’t European, he’s a lifelong mohammedan with a Middle Eastern or Central Asian ancestry, period.
Hey, btw, aren’t these kinds of hits supposed to come in time to help Zero’s people at the ballot box? This year they couldn’t even cheat right.
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