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Rep. King: Name Was Supposed to Be Top Secretby Jason Ditz, September 23, 2014
It was no surprise when the Obama Administration began attacking ISIS targets in Syria last night. What was surprising was that the US also attacked a group known as Khorasan, then hyped what a huge, imminent threat they supposedly are.
Bizarrely, the history of the Khorasan faction is virtually non-existent, and officials werent even mentioning the group until last week. Estimated at 50 fighters, the group is suddenly a huge pretext for military intervention, even though todays attack reportedly killed 30 of them.
Rep. Peter King (R NY) claimed to be familiar with the group, saying the administration had been telling members of Congress about Khorasan for several months, and that even the name of the group was supposed to be top secret.
Others claimed the group had, apart from its name, been known to exist for over a year now. That something al-Qaeda linked was known to exist in Aleppo was hardly news, but was it really what is being presented as Khorasan now?
It seems unlikely. The groups putative leader Muhsin al-Fadhli was being claimed by the State Department to be the leader of al-Qaeda in Iran as recently as May, which doesnt exactly point to him being active in some super dangerous group in Syria for a solid year.
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http://news.antiwar.com/2014/09/23/suddenly-khorasan-new-us-enemy-came-out-of-nowhere/
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)This one was overdue.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)too will the USA's.
I don't see how this can be paid for when we are already f'n broke...
The day is nigh.
gordianot
(15,226 posts)To provide deniability it will be some small splinter group no one ever heard of existing.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)convenient right about now to justify this endeavor.
gordianot
(15,226 posts)Right now the US and coalition can bomb whomever they want, a false flag might be possible but giving them a name points somewhere else. There are no Western Journalist in Syria that will make a report. Someone is going to get something nasty and use it for terror for terror sake. Almost no one will have ever heard of them. A defense against this threat mention their name and affiliation no matter the size for future reference. Naming names is a form of protection from a false flag operation. False flag operations work best in total secrecy.
betsuni
(25,128 posts)flamingdem
(39,304 posts)so not out of nowhere but unknown to the public.
Convenient to get them while going after Isis.
This group is not separate from Al-Quaeda it's a cell.
Since their goal was to attack the US and they needed something spectacular to take the wind out of Isis' sails the thinking was get it done.
Who knows right but they didn't need a pretext with Isis. Legal issues are another can o worms.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)because you don't introduce new products in August.
It's not like a bear suddenly materialized and attacked us in the driveway when we were taking groceries out of the trunk in suburbia.
In fact, I got my groceries in the house just fine, as did everyone else.
If anyone needs it spelled out for them, there are plenty of places to Google.