Khorasan Testing Bombs for Use on Planes, Weighing Knife, Gun Attacks
The Syria-based terror group Khorasan
has tested explosive devices that they plan to bring aboard planes, a
U.S. source briefed on the latest intelligence told NBC News.
The source said the U.S.
had “information on specific, concrete plotting” against aviation
targets by Khorasan, but said there was no “imminent” danger against any
specific flight, individual or target.
U.S. and British sources
also said that the U.K. and Australia had intercepted messages
indicating the real possibility of a low-level “knife and gun” attack by
jihadis who have returned from Syria against the public in a Western
nation in order to generate maximum fear.
The U.S. struck both
Khorasan and ISIS targets in Syria early Tuesday. According to a
Pentagon statement, the targets hit included training camps, “command
and control facilities,” and a facility producing explosives and
munitions.
Khorasan is a jihadi
group in Syria linked to al Qaeda. Members of the group, which is led by
33-year-old Muhsin al-Fadhli, include veteran al Qaeda militants from
Afghanistan and Yemen.
On Tuesday morning,
President Obama announced the strikes on ISIS targets in Syria, and said
the U.S. had been joined in the strikes by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and
other allies.
“[W]e also took strikes
to disrupt plotting against the United States and our allies by seasoned
al Qaeda operatives in Syria who are known as the Khorasan Group,”
added Obama. “[O]nce again, it must be clear to anyone who would plot
against America and try to do Americans harm that we will not tolerate
safe havens for terrorists who threaten our people.“
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