U.S. Central Command
U.S. has also taken action to disrupt the imminent attack plotting against Western interests by Khorasan Group in Syria.
What Is the Khorasan Group, Targeted By US in Syria? Only known of a few days ago....
EXERTS:
Khorasan’s goal is to attack the West in spectacular fashion – and that such plots appear to be “imminent.”
“We had very good indications that this group, which is a very dangerous group, was plotting and planning imminent attacks against Western target to include the U.S. homeland,” Kirby told ABC News’ “Good Morning America”. “We knew that there was active plotting going on for an attack on the U.S. homeland.”
Later, Lt. Gen. William Mayville told reporters the U.S. believed Khorasan Group to be “nearing the execution phase” for an attack in Europe or the American homeland, likely using Western recruits to execute the plot.
The U.S. military said today that by striking a little known terror cell called the Khorasan Group in Syria it was able to take out dangerous men who were “plotting and planning imminent attacks against Western targets to include the U.S. homeland.”
In the midst of the well-publicized campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the military’s first official announcement that a different, potentially more deadly terror group existed, that it’s members were planning an “imminent” attack on America and that those planning the attack had been killed in the U.S.-led bombing campaign all came as something of a surprise, considering that for the public, the group was virtually unheard of until a few days ago.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/khorasan-group-targeted-us-syria/story?id=25700467
U.S. official:
“We’re characterizing our targets as Khorasan + ISIL but it’s possible others were there.
“It is a toxic soup of terrorists.”