The Khorosan Group Does Not Exist -- Andrew C. McCarthy, NRO
It’s a fictitious name the Obama administration invented to deceive us.
We’re being had. Again.
For six years, President Obama has endeavored to will the country into accepting two pillars of his alternative national-security reality. First, he claims to have dealt decisively with the terrorist threat, rendering it a disparate series of ragtag jayvees. Second, he asserts that the threat is unrelated to Islam, which is innately peaceful, moderate, and opposed to the wanton “violent extremists” who purport to act in its name.
Now, the president has been compelled to act against a jihad that has neither ended nor been “decimated.” The jihad, in fact, has inevitably intensified under his counterfactual worldview, which holds that empowering Islamic supremacists is the path to security and stability. Yet even as war intensifies in Iraq and Syria — even as jihadists continue advancing, continue killing and capturing hapless opposition forces on the ground despite Obama’s futile air raids — the president won’t let go of the charade.
Hence, Obama gives us the Khorosan Group.
The who?
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My Comment: I have been doing this blog for a number of years .... and I have been covering/studying/analyzing terror groups and their operations for just as long. I use multiple sources to obtain my information .... and I am always alert to when a new organization "pops - up". Case in point .... the Islamic State/ISIS/ISIL is a group that I have been following for years .... that is why I am not surprised to see their success. As to the Khorasan Group .... a group that is suppose to be incredibly dangerous (if not the most dangerous) .... I only learned about them a few weeks ago. I must admit that this has been bothering me for the past two weeks. I am on top of these things .... not knowing about the existence of the most dangerous terror group in the world who are planning an imminent attack is something that I have trouble reconciling with. I know my stuff .... or so I thought.
I used the search engine for this blog ("War News Search" on the top left hand of this page) to find out if I did mention this group in some post at some time in the past .... there are 60,000 blog posts for this blog .... so if this group did something in the past .... I am confident that somewhere in this blog there is post on them. I did my search ... and I did get a hit from December 29, 2011 .... Pakistani Death Squads Are Now Targeting CIA Drone Informants. Apparently there is a group called the Khorasan Mujahedin, and they operate on the Afghan - Pakistan border .... but they are not the same group.
So does the Khorasan Group exist? I am now leaning to a No.
Update: Some experts are saying that it does .... The Khorasan Group — it’s legit (Powerline)
7 comments:
Personally, I don't think they're completely fabricated, but I do suspect that the threat is exaggerated.
The reason I'm ready to believe in their existence is that IS has totally thrown off the balance of "brand power" in the competition for recruits and donations between extreme Islamist organizations. Al Qaeda is used to being the most respected name in anti-American theocracy, and with IS grabbing the spotlight and doing what al-Qaeda never could: actually founding an Islamic State that's winning wars (so far). AQIM tried that in Mali and got rolled up in short order. AQAP tried in Yemen and failed, even though the Houthi have recently proven that it's quite possible to overthrow the government there. So I think al-Qaeda's leadership realizes that they need to do something in order to not fade into irrelevance, and collecting their best men into a cell to try and stage another spectacular attack like 9/11 would remind all the people with money to give to that cause, "hey, remember al-Qaeda! Yeah, we're still totally fighting the Far Enemy. Still pretty awesome at it. Donate to your local AQ charity front today!" and hopefully score some of the recruits and money flowing into IS.
On the other hand, while I find it plausible that they collected some of their best men to do this, I don't think that that automatically makes the "the world's most dangerous terror group" nor even guarantees that they would have been able to do anything much. So, while I can imagine that the threat is played up to help justify the air raids (that's somewhat dumb, because if air raids won't destroy one group why would they destroy another? But dumb doesn't preclude use in propaganda of course) I doubt it's a totally imaginary group.
WNU,
Don't feel so bad, with the amount of lying of this Administration you're bound to fall for one, I did, hook line, and sinker. Perhaps Dan is right above, we'll see. This is getting pretty strange.
With U.S Congressional elections only a few weeks away everything is becoming political. I suspect that the White House's internal polling show a rout, and some are using the foreign policy/terror angle to bolster their political parties credibility. Either way .... you are right James .... this is getting strange .... and disturbingly so.
It just hit me, "Operation Save the Senate"!
I don't think you can trust anything you read in National Review Online any more. It used to be a very balanced blog (racist comments from the old mathematician notwithstanding), but it seems to me that it's fallen off the cliff in recent years, perhaps competing with The Daily Caller and Breitbart has affected its editorial board.
Jonah Goldberg, who was, all things considered, pretty moderate, and Byron York, were fairly centrist back in the day. Now...
Who was the racist mathematician?
Is that the one who wrote the column about what to tell your kids about black people?
In Europe's intel community is raising questions on U.S. claims that Khorasan group is a real threat .... http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.ca/2014/09/european-intelligence-agencies-were.html
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