Was The Khorasan Group Planning An Attack On the West?

US Officials Unclear On Threat Posed By Obscure al-Qaida Cell In Syria -- The Guardian

Senior officials say Khorasan was involved in ‘actual plotting that was ongoing’, but is a terror attack really imminent?

Three days after the United States unexpectedly launched air strikes against an al-Qaida cell in Syria, officials are offering varied and conflicting explanations on the precise nature of the threat posed by the group.

Hours after Tomahawk missiles slammed into buildings near Aleppo believed to be used by Khorasan, an obscure group said to be focused on exporting terrorism from Syria, the US military described it as involved in “imminent attack plotting” against western targets.

Yet it is unclear what Khorasan was planning, how far that planning advanced, and whether the US itself was a target. Nor is the US confident as yet that it has either killed Khorasan’s leaders or significantly degraded any threat Khorasan may pose.

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My Comment: U.S. officials do not know .... they are acting on assumptions based on the intel that they have received.