Posted on 09/24/2014 8:07:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Shortly before the United States and its Arab allies launched air strikes on Islamic State (IS) positions across Syria on Tuesday, cruise missiles launched from US warships in the Gulf and Red Sea struck two areas west of the city of Aleppo.
The targets were not leaders of IS, the jihadist group that has declared the creation of a caliphate in the large swathes of Syria and Iraq under its control, but seasoned al-Qaeda operatives who the US says had established a safe haven to plot attacks on the West.
The missiles targeted training camps, a bomb factory, a communication building, and command-and-control facilities belonging to what Washington calls "the Khorasan Group".
Until then, very little information about the shadowy organisation had been made public, although American politicians had been given classified briefings.
"This is a group that has been known to us for two years," US Attorney General Eric Holder told Yahoo News.
"We hit them last night out of a concern that they were getting close to an execution date of some of the plans that we have seen."
'Low profile'
The Khorasan Group - a name apparently coined by the US - is believed to be made up of veteran militants from Afghanistan and Pakistan, which jihadists refer to as Khorasan, as well as North Africa and Chechnya.
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What is the Khorasan Group?
Sounds like a sponsor for NPR.
We are striking them because they are Islamic jihadists, but are we striking them (and others) hard enough???
No... (see my tagline)
no matter what name is used ... is all the same. islam!
Someone needs to tell this guy to lighten up.
It’s a material used for counter tops, right?
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Not a K Street company, although it sounds like one.
The administration will keep finding more boogeymen to bomb until Obama’s poll numbers improve.
It may well be!
“This is a group that has been known to us for two years,”
That’s scary to hear (tho not surprising), because there were several other people on tv in the past week who have said that we’ve known about them for longer than that.
aren't they the Hollywood sisters all with big bottoms ?
What is the Khorasan Group?
an Obama DISTRACTION group ?
Get out your Syrian theatre joke of a war scorecard. Note the new player entries on the field of play. The muzzie variation combos are endless but no boots on ground necessary to defeat them all.
That should read:
The missiles targeted empty training camps, an empty bomb factory, an empty communication building, and and empty command-and-control facilities belonging to what Washington calls "the Khorasan Group".
After all we wouldn't want to actually kill these people. -tom
Just another leftist think-tank?
..so Obama doesn’t have to say islamic state as in ISIS or ISIL.
So they have been sitting in the desert traing at this spot and we knew and we are just now taking action? Disgraceful. All parts of al-Qaeda must be immediately exterminated when found. We are at war with them. Failure to take them out by now constitutes treason, regardless of where they are located. No safe havens in this war period.
Este corazon que aun te adora Ya est?
muriendo tarde con tarde
Como se muere la luz del dia Ya no puedo mas
Tu me haces falta
Vuelve conmigo
Alma de mi alma
Vidita mia
aren't they the Hollywood sisters all with big bottoms ?
Ba-da-dum Rimshot!
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