Khorasan: Behind The Mysterious Name Of The Newest Terrorist Threat -- Michael Crowley, Time
The word Khorasan sheds important light on the grandiose, even apocalyptic vision that drives many Sunni radicals
It was six days after the Sept. 11 attacks, and with dark smoke still rising from lower Manhattan, Ali Soufan was face-to-face with the most senior al-Qaeda leader in American custody.
Soufan, an FBI counterterrorism agent, was inside a Yemen prison, interrogating a captured al-Qaeda operative named Abu Jandal, a former bodyguard and confidante to Osama bin Laden.
Abu Jandal was far from intimidated by his American interlocutor. To the contrary, he sought to menace him. “You can’t stop the mujahedin. We will be victorious,” he smugly told Soufan. “You want to know why?”
He continued with a grin: “The hadith says … ‘If you see the black banners coming from Khurasan, join that army, even if you have to crawl over ice; no power will be able to stop them.’”
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My Comment: The above video is chilling .... but it answers a lot of questions on how some radical Jihadists see themselves.
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The correct answer would have been "We will crush you as easily as Subotai Bahadur did."
I like that James.
WNU: If you're hung up on history, you had better know it.
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