Posted on 10/18/2015 1:38:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The leader of an al Qaeda-linked group allegedly bent on attacking the West has been killed in an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Syria, U.S. officials said Sunday.
Sanafi al-Nasr, a Saudi citizen whose real name is Abdul Mohsen Adballah Ibrahim al Charekh, was the highest-ranking member of the Khorasan Group -- a collection of veteran al Qaeda jihadis which had moved into Syria, the Pentagon said in a statement.
He was killed in an airstrike in northwest Syria on Thursday, the statement said.
Nasr, who was once al Qaeda's chief financial officer and had been designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the U.S. Treasury, is the fifth senior Khorasan Group leader killed in the last four months, said the statement.
"The United States will not relent in its mission to degrade, disrupt and destroy al-Qaeda and its remnants," said Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.
"This operation deals a significant blow to the Khorasan Group's plans to attack the United States and our allies, and once again proves that those who seek to do us harm are not beyond our reach."
Nasr's death was referred to widely on jihadist social media sites, where he was mourned as a martyr.
'Significant blow'
Nasr had played a significant role in the group's finances and had also been instrumental in organizing routes for new recruits to travel, via Turkey, from Pakistan to Syria, the Pentagon said.
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Anyone believe it was us who gottem?
Wow. We killed a guy!!
We might do it again in six months.
What’s Russia doing? Slaughtering “moderate” rebels before slaughtering ISIS and then God knows what.
my very thoughts too. either Putin killed him and our Muslim leader looks so bad he takes the credit OR someone actually did it BECAUSE he looks so bad he had to do something. LOL bring over Trey Gowdy if we ever want to find out the truth.
Looks like we dispatched AQ’s number 2 guy once again.
Wow, this is serious. Does that mean he was on double secret probation too?
We're good at color coding terror threats and designating terrorists as special, but this administration has no interest in really acting against terrorism .
We seem good at killing specific people; the Russians seem good at killing ... period.
White House sad by this news. No way we did it.
there is no such thing as a moderate muslim. I thought everyone knew that by now. a so called “moderate” muslim gets his instruction form the Koran, what does the Koran say. Kill dp0622
“Anyone believe it was us who gottem?”
As I recall, the Khorasan Group was operating in the area in the NorthWest of Syria, where the Russians now rule the skies.
American coalition aircraft have been reported to be carefully keeping away from the areas where the Russians are operating.
I agree.
Which makes me suspect the Egyptian leader doesn’t really believe in this nonsense but has to say he does.
But I could be wrong. What do i know?
So many Jihadist groups, so many leaders.
I sent Ash a letter.
I asked Ash why America is literally crawling with tens of millions who are entering illegally, from God knows where, during war time?
I asked Ash why they're rolling out the red carpet for tens of thousands of Muslims to enter our homeland?
But Ash never responded back.☺
Please promptly respond to by mail Mr. Ash Carter!☺
so obummer just said his ‘yo mama so fat joke’, sit back and prepare to be bored. Putin has more credibility than that black guy and his sidekick skerry.
During WWII we were at war with the Japanese who we put in concentration camps here. We now are at war with islam, so our leaders import legions of muslims. Can’t figure out why they don’t realize we are at war with them.
Just because he said “Death to America” and was bent on destroying western civilization doesn’t mean we might not have been supporting him and supplying him with weapons. That I think is our foreign policy these days.
Well it about time.
This story is nothing more than War on Terror™ theater, to make Bath House look like he’s doing more than just standing there with his finger down the backside of his pants.
The deceased will be quickly replaced by some other jihadi flunky.
Who looks ‘like the bored kid at the back of the
classroom’ now Barry?
Russia and Iran are fine with this. They back the Shiite forces of Hizbollah and Al Quds.
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