In the beginning there was AQ……….then we had another bad guy….ISIS and now we have yet another bad guy bent on our destruction…….does anyone else see a pattern emerging?

The war begins.  US and its coalition has begun the war on ISIS.  And while they were fighting ISIS there was a side trip the planes and missiles took…….it seems that there is actionable intel that some heavy duty AQ affiliates are planning some sort of problems for the West and possibly western Europe……that group goes by the name of Khorasan.

I know the group sounds like the Courrasant of Star Wars fame…..but these guys are not some alien race trying to get by in the universe…..but rather a hard core AQ group set on destruction……

More than a third of the 22 US airstrikes in Syria weren’t aimed at ISIS. Instead, they targeted a lesser-known al-Qaeda cell known as the Khorasan Group—an organization that some US officials see as a “more direct threat” to the West than ISIS, the New York Times reports. Khorasan appears to be focused on recruiting Western jihadists in Syria. The group is attracted by their passports, which could make it easier to sneak bombs onto planes, CBS News reports. Last night’s airstrike’s hit a Khorasan training camp in Syria that was “nearing the execution phase” of terror attacks against US or European targets, an army official says, successfully disrupting those plans, according to USA Today. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby says the attacks were to be “major.”

Khorasan’s leader is 33-year-old Muhsin al-Fadhli, the Independent reports. A quickly-rising star in al-Qaeda, he has been linked to terrorist leaders like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Washington Post reports. Reports from the White House and UN note his involvement in al-Qaeda efforts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran; he allegedly took a leading role in both fighting and fundraising for the group. Khorasan also has bomb technicians who learned from Ibrahim al-Asiri, the man behind failed underwear and print-cartridge bombs that made headlines, insiders tell CBS. The group is pursuing “high-profile attacks against the West,” says a counterterror official, noting its “increasing awareness of Western security procedures and its efforts to adapt to those procedures that we adopt.”

I am sure we will be hearing more and more in this group as the war lingers on……more info on the seal team of AQ……….

Not many people had heard of the Khorasan terror group until it emerged that many of the US-led airstrikes in Syria targeted the group—but some lawmakers say they’ve known about the threat for months, BuzzFeed reports. Rep. Peter King says he is surprised the name of the “lethal and dangerous” al-Qaeda cell is now public. “It was supposed to be top secret, classified, and it wasn’t until last week that an AP story had it in there,” he says. “But we weren’t supposed to talk about it.” Other officials say they were briefed on the threat months ago but didn’t know the name of the group or that of its leader, Muhsin al-Fadhli, until they appeared in the media this week.

American officials say the group is made up of al-Qaeda veterans from several countries who traveled to Syria under the orders of leader Ayman al-Zawahiri to plot attacks on the West—and the group’s activities were the source of recent airline security alerts, including a warning not to travel with uncharged electronic devices, the New York Times reports. Officials have confirmed that al-Fadhli was a target of the airstrikes, but it’s not clear whether he was killed, the Los Angeles Times reports. Khorasan was closely allied with the Nusra Front, another al-Qaeda affiliate, and that group has released a statement saying its leader, Abu Yousef al-Turki—also known as “the Turk”—was killed in the airstrikes, reports CNN. Learn more about the Khorasan terror group here.