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![[Jabhat al Nusra rebels (Syria)]](../images/q/qt-nusra.jpg)
image located by William Garrison, 26 June 2013
Within al-Nusra, there's the Khorasan group. "Khorasan, also known as the Khorasan
Group, refers to a group of senior al-Qaeda members who operate in
Syria. The group is reported to consist of a small number of fighters
who are all on terrorist watchlists, and coordinate with the al-Nusra
Front, al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria. At an intelligence gathering in
Washington, D.C. on 18 September 2014, Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper stated that "in terms of threat to the
homeland, Khorasan may pose as much of a danger as the
Islamic State."
The term first appeared in news media in September 2014, although the
United States had reportedly been keeping track of the group for two
years previously. Some commentators have alleged that the threat the
Khorasan Group represented was exaggerated to generate public support
for American intervention in Syria, and some have questioned whether
the group exists as a distinct entity. Khorasan is a historical term
for a region overlapping modern-day Afghanistan and Iran. The name of
the group was coined by intelligence agencies as a reference to the
high-ranking Khorasan Shura, a leadership council within al-Qaeda
which many members of the group belong to. United States Central
Command, the U.S. Department of Defense military command responsible
for operations in Syria and Iraq, described the Khorasan Group name in
a 6 November 2014 press release as: "a term used to refer to a network
of Nusrah Front and al-Qa'ida core extremists who share a history of
training operatives, facilitating fighters and money, and planning
attacks against U.S. and Western targets.
The group is described as "a very small group - dozens of fighters
only" (about 50 members total), composed of experienced jihadis from
various countries. The group is believed to be made up of "al-Qaeda
core" members, meaning the high-ranking members of al-Qaeda who moved
to Pakistan following the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.
There are indications that some members of the Khorasan Group were
part of an elite sniper subunit of the al-Nusra Front that was known
as the Wolf Group; it was also called al-Qaeda Snipers.
A 23 September 2014 article by the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace stated that "the
'Khorasan Group' is a term that gained currency only in the past two
weeks", noting that "the sudden flurry of revelations about the
'Khorasan Group' in the past two weeks smacks of strategic leaks and
political spin". The article also stated that "Whatever one decides to
call it, this is not likely to be an independent organization, but
rather a network-within-the-network, assigned to deal with specific
tasks.""
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khorasan_(Islamist_group)
Their flag is the same flag as al-Nusra's flag:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khorasan_(Islamist_group)#mediaviewer/File:Flag_of_the_Al-Nusra_Front.svg
Esteban Rivera, 15 November 2014
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