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New intelligence has emerged warning Washington that its upcoming confrontation with the Islamic State may leave it blind to a more sinister and direct threat from a much lesser known terrorist group that has arisen from the ashes of the Syrian war.
Very little information is being released at the moment by anyone within American intelligence circles, but the group calling itself Khorasan is said by officials to have concrete plans for striking targets in the United States and Europe as a chosen modus operandi – more so than the Islamic State (IS), formerly known as ISIS.
The first ever mention of the group occurred on Thursday at an intelligence gathering in Washington DC, when National Intelligence Director James Clapper admitted that “in terms of threat to the homeland, Khorasan may pose as much of a danger as the Islamic State.”
Former CIA deputy director Mike Morell explained on "CBS This Morning" that a group of militants from al Qaeda-central, near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, have joined the fight in Syria and "evolved into the external operations arm" of the group's franchise in that country, the al-Nusra Front.
"Khorasan members came from Pakistan," said Morell. "They focus on attacks in the West."
What makes Khorasan so dangerous -- given its presumed access to the pool of hundreds of U.S. and European jihadists who have flooded into Syria to join the fight -- is the group's suspected members from or trained by al Qaeda's branch in Yemen, AQAP.
AQAP has been considered for years one of the most direct and imminent threats to the U.S., boasting al Qaeda's master bomb-builder, Ibrahim al-Asiri.
"That is very worrisome because that brings together two pieces of a potential plot in the West," said Morell. "It brings together Western fighters who have gone to Syria to fight -- so capable of carrying out operations in the West -- with this bomb technology that Asiri brings to the table. You put those things together, you have a serious threat."
originally posted by: minkmouse
If you poke the hornets nest with a stick for long enough you're gonna get stung! Sooner or later these terrorists are going to get in the door and do some real damage to the democratic way of life, you can count on it! There is enough death and carnage in the future from this crap as to make things like Ebola laughable. I'm sorry but we're in for a very bad future as I see it.
Khorasan may refer to:
- Greater Khorasan, a historic region which lies mainly in modern-day Iran.
- It was previously known as Parthia; later, during the Sassanid era, it was changed to Khorasan.
- Khorasan Province, a pre-2004 province of Iran, subsequently divided into:
originally posted by: Answer
originally posted by: minkmouse
If you poke the hornets nest with a stick for long enough you're gonna get stung! Sooner or later these terrorists are going to get in the door and do some real damage to the democratic way of life, you can count on it! There is enough death and carnage in the future from this crap as to make things like Ebola laughable. I'm sorry but we're in for a very bad future as I see it.
Stop buying the crap being fed to you. Your response is exactly what they want.