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US air strike in Syria 'kills Khorasan leader Muhsin al-Fadhli'
Source: BBC
A US air strike has reportedly killed Muhsin al-Fadhli, the Kuwaiti leader of the Khorasan Group, a shadowy al-Qaeda offshoot operating in Syria.
Al-Fadhli was targeted on 8 July while travelling in a vehicle near Sarmada in Syria, a Pentagon spokesman said.
A statement by US Navy Capt Jeff Davis said al-Fadhli was one of the few al-Qaeda leaders to have known in advance of the 9/11 attacks.
Al-Fadhli was also said to have been targeted in a US strike last September.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-33617316
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US air strike in Syria 'kills Khorasan leader Muhsin al-Fadhli' (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2015
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msanthrope
(37,549 posts)1. If we actually got him, then that's amazing news. nt
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)2. Glenn Greenwald told us Obama lied about this group's existence
There are serious questions about whether the Khorasan Group even exists in any meaningful or identifiable manner. Aki Peritz, a CIA counterterrorism official until 2009, told Time: Id certainly never heard of this group while working at the agency, while Obamas former U.S. ambassador to Syria Robert Ford said: We used the term [Khorasan] inside the government, we dont know where it came from .All I know is that they dont call themselves that. As The Intercept was finalizing this article, former terrorism federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wrote in National Review that the group was a scam: You havent heard of the Khorosan Group because there isnt one. It is a name the administration came up with, calculating that Khorosan had sufficient connection to jihadist lore that no one would call the president on it.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/28/u-s-officials-invented-terror-group-justify-bombing-syria/
And, yes, he pretended that rightwing impeachnik archloon Andrew McCarthy was a credible source when discussing Obama.
ChiefJusticeIV
(27 posts)3. ...and it means very little
The person who is second in command will take over.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)4. We'll need thousands of such strikes
to get Al Quaeda's different flavors under control.