Khorasan: Syrian Factions Never Heard of It
Term Likely Invented by US
Since the US began its airstrikes against Syria, the name Khorasan has been on everyone’s lips since, along with ISIS, they’ve become a top target.
It’s puzzling for people in Syria, especially those affiliated with the rebellion, because none of them have ever heard of any such faction. Indeed, the evidence is increasingly that the US made it up.
“The name is clearly US-originated,” noted analyst Pieter van Ostaeyen, who says that the name had never been mentioned by any jihadist movements until the US started talking them up.
Rather, what is being referred to by the administration as Khorasan is simply al-Qaeda. When the US attacks “Khorasan” they’re really attacking Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s Syria group, and don’t want to admit it because the “moderate” rebels are all closely allied with al-Qaeda. But they aren’t allied with Khorasan because there is no such thing.
The name is also a political convenience, so that when the TSA says the “Khorasan” is a threat to US flights, what they’re really saying is that al-Qaeda is a threat to US flights, hardly news, but a damning admission that 13 years of focusing on al-Qaeda in a global war hasn’t amounted to a hill of beans, and the threat is still there.
They don’t want to admit that, so instead they invented the fiction of Khorasan to cover up the truth.
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Mojo
September 26th, 2014 at 7:45 pm
Khorasan, is a regional area in north east of Iran close to Afghanistan. The Americans would never guessed that, so they just find a name hard for people to know about or understand to fool them more then last time.
Guest
September 26th, 2014 at 8:39 pm
You just can't make up stuff like this!
Porgy Tyrebiter
September 26th, 2014 at 9:21 pm
Classic.
Wilson
September 27th, 2014 at 1:02 am
Shocking that the sadist Obama would manufacture such a lie.
Oh Yeah
September 27th, 2014 at 3:26 am
It should be – more THAN last time, not more then last time.
Than compares items, then is similar to until.
Good response.
jtt
September 27th, 2014 at 4:36 am
Just like the 40,000 Yazidi refugees on a mountain top in Iraq which turn out to be 500, and nobody even knew they existed.
curmudgeonvt
September 27th, 2014 at 4:59 am
…but they did. And as expected, the American ignorant class bought it hook-line-and-sinker.I'm betting it was the gnomes in the Pentagon and State who created this spectre – and then laid it all on Obama at some conference table deep in the bowels of the WH. He couldn't dream this up – no imagination. This has State/Pentagon/CIA all over it.
It's also possible that our good friends in Jerusalem whispered in the US ears they own and suddenly it's a crisis. They are so very good at creating reality out of thin air, after all.
John Ellis
September 27th, 2014 at 5:24 am
Illusions of good hiding an intent to be enriched upon our misery, mental darkness, what Empire USA is all about.
Salem
September 27th, 2014 at 5:54 am
It is because ISIS does not sound so foreign ,Islamic and so very frighting to American simplistic minds.Khorasan does all that and more.
GeorgyOrwell
September 27th, 2014 at 7:31 am
The entire War on Terror is a lie from beginning to end. The WOT is nothing more than a sugar coating to mask the real agenda as explained in Zbignew Brezinskies's 1997 book. THE GRAND CHESSBOARD.
Survivor
September 27th, 2014 at 8:26 am
Of course it is a made up excuse to justify their illegal bombing campaign on Syria. Remember, most monsters who serve in our govt today are LAWYERS (LIARS) and just like how the Nazis justified all their crimes via legal wrangling Obama and Republicans are doing the same.
anndoc
September 27th, 2014 at 12:04 pm
The question is, did Obama know it was made-up?
If not the generals and spooks have really taken over and Obama can be filed in the same drawer as Colin Powell.