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The Khorosan Group Does Not Exist
National Review Online ^ | September 27, 2014 | Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on 09/27/2014 1:56:04 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

We’re being had. Again.

For six years, President Obama has endeavored to will the country into accepting two pillars of his alternative national-security reality. First, he claims to have dealt decisively with the terrorist threat, rendering it a disparate series of ragtag jayvees. Second, he asserts that the threat is unrelated to Islam, which is innately peaceful, moderate, and opposed to the wanton “violent extremists” who purport to act in its name.

Now, the president has been compelled to act against a jihad that has neither ended nor been “decimated.” The jihad, in fact, has inevitably intensified under his counterfactual worldview, which holds that empowering Islamic supremacists is the path to security and stability. Yet even as war intensifies in Iraq and Syria — even as jihadists continue advancing, continue killing and capturing hapless opposition forces on the ground despite Obama’s futile air raids — the president won’t let go of the charade.

Hence, Obama gives us the Khorosan Group.

The who?

There is a reason that no one had heard of such a group until a nanosecond ago, when the “Khorosan Group” suddenly went from anonymity to the “imminent threat” that became the rationale for an emergency air war there was supposedly no time to ask Congress to authorize.

You haven’t heard of the Khorosan Group because there isn’t one. It is a name the administration came up with, calculating that Khorosan — the –Iranian–​Afghan border region — had sufficient connection to jihadist lore that no one would call the president on it.

The “Khorosan Group” is al-Qaeda. It is simply a faction within the global terror network’s Syrian franchise, “Jabhat al-Nusra.”..............................

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; andymccarthy; jayvees; jihad; khorosan; middleeast; terrorism
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Operation "Reluctant Warrior."
1 posted on 09/27/2014 1:56:05 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The taqiyya-talkin’ totalitarian POSOTUS lied?


2 posted on 09/27/2014 2:07:01 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Of course it doesn’t exist.

Obama, the DNC and its press are using the Cheney doc passed by Congress, as the legal basis for the current war.

That authorization to use force is limited to use against those responsible for the attacks of 9-11-01

Authorization for Use of Military Force
September 18, 2001
Public Law 107-40 [S. J. RES. 23]
107th CONGRESS

JOINT RESOLUTION
To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.

Whereas, on September 11, 2001, acts of treacherous violence were committed against the United States and its citizens; and


3 posted on 09/27/2014 2:12:08 AM PDT by NoLibZone (The bad news: Hillary Clinton will be the next President. The Good news: Our principles are intact.)
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To: NoLibZone

Is Obama saying that Al Qeda is not responsible for the attacks of 9-11-01 ?


4 posted on 09/27/2014 2:16:24 AM PDT by NoLibZone (The bad news: Hillary Clinton will be the next President. The Good news: Our principles are intact.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

‘The Khorosan Group’ sounds almost corporate, like an advertising grp.


5 posted on 09/27/2014 2:19:36 AM PDT by odds
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The point is not lost.

At one time, we called them “Al Queda”.
When that wasn’t as effective, we started calling them “ISIS”.
Now we have the “Khorasan” group to blame.

They will keep giving them labels. Every label in the book, from ABC to XYZ to Boogieman to the Monster under the Bed.

They will label them and label them and label them.

There IS A REASON!

Because they do not want to call them what they really are.
They are Islam.


6 posted on 09/27/2014 2:20:30 AM PDT by djf (OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

All treason comes from Pelosi who crafted false
documents for the UNDOCUMENTED pRes_ _ent
while HE helped al Qaeda for the DNC and the RINOs.


7 posted on 09/27/2014 2:22:18 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: odds

No kidding.

The brain dead probably think this is a branch of the Kim Kardashian clan.


8 posted on 09/27/2014 2:22:36 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: djf

“Because they do not want to call them what they really are.
They are Islam.”.....

AND, they are TERROISTS!


9 posted on 09/27/2014 2:32:17 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: NoLibZone
Is Obama saying that Al Qeda is not responsible for the attacks of 9-11-01 ?

I thought he was perfectly clear on it - it was Bush's fault - the peaceful muzzies had no choice.

10 posted on 09/27/2014 3:03:56 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: DaveA37
...AND, they are TERROISTS!

AND, they are our ENEMY!

11 posted on 09/27/2014 3:05:25 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Operation Lyin’ A-hole

The Muslim coward will never admit he was lying his head off during the 2012 campaign when he repeatedly assured the nation that he had defeated Al Queda.


12 posted on 09/27/2014 3:05:42 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: All

en·e·my - noun

: someone who hates another : someone who attacks or tries to harm another

: something that harms or threatens someone or something

: a group of people (such as a nation) against whom another group is fighting a war


13 posted on 09/27/2014 3:06:37 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Had he left in place troops on the ground none of this would be necessary.
It was over, and we had peace on the ground.
This is all Obama and the democrats.


14 posted on 09/27/2014 3:10:30 AM PDT by reefdiver (The fool says there is no God. And the bigger fools sees direct evidence and rages against it.)
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Well, I heard Michelle Bachman say The House Intelligence new about Khorosan for the last two years.

So no, this isn’t an invention.

They are a splinter group or a franchise.


15 posted on 09/27/2014 3:15:34 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The imposter and his drew need a US attack put fear and dependency back on the table for them


16 posted on 09/27/2014 3:15:48 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: odds

‘The Khorosan Group’ sounds almost corporate, like an advertising grp.
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My thoughts exactly. If not advertising then real estate, insurance, stock market ...


17 posted on 09/27/2014 3:41:30 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Remember Mississippi)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I KNEW IT!!
KHOROSAN sounded Farsi from the get go, I just ouldnt find a farsi translator in the last 3 days (I was hospital ridden :) )

I KNEW IT!!!
Obama is making it up!
I will finish my thoughts on this, but Obama is only bombing these rebels so he can use the guns we send the so-called moderates to overthrow Assad like he wanted to a year ago!!
Watch this space, Obama is only doing this to support Al Qaeda to overthrow Assad and he is using this manufactured crisis to do it.
People were being beheaded, women raped, entire Christian towns being destroyed, genocide of Christians, and all of a sudden, the only reason he gets excited is when two joournalists get beheaded...(IN TWO VIDEOS WHERE WE NEVER ACTUALLY SEE THEIR HEADS GET CUT OFF LIKE ALL OTHER BEHEADING VIDEOS?)
This is a scam, a false flag event, I never thought I would become such a conspiracy monger but this guy has taken the cake.
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/388990/print


18 posted on 09/27/2014 3:41:36 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Lk 16:31 And he said unto him If they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will theybe persuaded)
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To: RaceBannon

Khorosan is indeed a farsi (persian) word. I speak farsi. Khorosan (also spelled Khoraasan) is a province of iran, bordering afghanistan & pakistan in modern history. Greater Khorosan had larger boundries including tajikistan & uzebekistan. My understanding is that the afghan and paki jihadists gone to syria are essentially called ‘the khorosan grp’. But they’re essentially part of al-qaeda.


19 posted on 09/27/2014 3:59:44 AM PDT by odds
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To: djf
Yes they are Islam. And someone please tell me any other of the great religions of the world that people feel the need to refer to as a "religion of peace". If I hear that phrase one more time my head will explode!

Someone on Fox just nailed it. All other religions are religions of FAITH. Islam is a religion of FORCE. Exactly.

20 posted on 09/27/2014 4:18:00 AM PDT by mc5cents ("Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." - Thomas Jefferson)
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