KEEPING UP WITH THE KHORASANS

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No, not those Khorasans. Their rear-ends are not nearly as prominent as these Korasans rear ends have been scattered about the desert of Syria.

September 23, 2014 The U.S. launched eight airstrikes Monday night against a little-known, al-Qaida-affiliated militant group in Syria.

The United States Central Command said Tuesday morning that American forces hit the Khorasan Group near Aleppo to stop "imminent attack-planning against the United States and Western interests." At a Pentagon press briefing shortly after, defense officials explained just how imminent such an attack may have been.

"The intelligence reports indicated that the Khorasan Group was in the final stages of plans to execute major attacks against Western targets and potentially the U.S. homeland," said Lt. Gen. William Mayville, the director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Little is known about the Khorasan Group, which the Pentagon said has "established a safe haven in Syria to develop external attacks, construct and test improvised explosive devices, and recruit Westerners to conduct operations." U.S. intelligence believes that the organization, which has deep ties with al-Qaida, poses a direct threat to the U.S., even more than ISIS does. In a brief statement Tuesday morning, President Obama called the group's members "seasoned al-Qaida operatives."

White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said Tuesday that the U.S. has had the Khorasan Group on its radar, according to press pool reports. "For some time, we've been tracking a plot to conduct attack in the United States," he said. "We believe that attack-planning was imminent."

The terrorist group, Rhodes continued, had "clear ambitions to launch external operations against the United States." "We see this very much as an extension of the threat posed by al-Qaida and their associated forces," he said.

Rhodes said that Syrian opposition forces alone are "certainly unable" to combat the threat of the Khorasan Group. American forces acted alone in their strikes against the group in Syria on Monday night. In their 14 strikes against the Islamic State in the same country, they had help from Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/defense/defense-official-al-qaida-affiliated-group-was-in-final-stages-of-planning-attacks-against-the-west-20140923

Edited September 23, 2014 by ExExpat

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Did you just mistake the word Khorasan for Kardashian?

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Did you just mistake the word Khorasan for Kardashian?

Nah. But, they could be synonyms.