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The Khorasans: As Fake As the Kardashians
Obama is now - after the fact - scrambling to justify bombing the sovereign nation of Syria without the permission of either the Syrian government or even the United States Congress by saying that we were going after the super-evil Khorasans, who were about to attack us.
My God! That sounds terrifying ... like a cross between Genghis Khan, Klingons and the Kardashians!
The U.S. is saying that they're even more dangerous than ISIS.
There's just one wee little problem ... the Khorasan threat is as as fake as the Kardashians' physiques. (Admittedly, it's confusing, given that the Kardashians have also inserted themselves right in the middle of the Syrian conflict.)
Agence France-Presse reports:
The US says it has hit a little-known group called "Khorasan" in Syria, but experts and activists argue it actually struck Al-Qaeda's affiliate Al-Nusra Front, which fights alongside Syrian rebels.
In announcing its raids in the northern province of Aleppo on Tuesday, Washington described the group it targeted as Khorasan, a cell of Al-Qaeda veterans planning attacks against the West.
But experts and activists cast doubt on the distinction between Khorasan and Al-Nusra Front, which is Al-Qaeda's Syrian branch.
"In Syria, no one had ever heard talk of Khorasan until the US media brought it up," said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"Rebels, activists and the whole world knows that these positions (hit Tuesday) were Al-Nusra positions, and the fighters killed were Al-Nusra fighters," added Abdel Rahman, who has tracked the Syrian conflict since it erupted in 2011.
Experts were similarly dubious about the distinction.
"The name refers to Al-Qaeda fighters previously based in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran who have travelled to Syria to fight with... Al-Nusra," said Matthew Henman, head of IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre.
"They... should not be considered a new or distinct group as such."
Aron Lund, editor of the Syria in Crisis website run by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, raised similar doubts.
"The fact that news about this Al-Qaeda-run, anti-Western cell linked to Al-Nusra emerged just over a week ago, through US intelligence leaks -- well, it's certainly an interesting coincidence," he told AFP.
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Claims of a distinction are lost of many of Syria's rebels, who have also often rejected the world community's designation of Al-Nusra as a "terrorist" group.
When Washington added Al-Nusra to its list of "terrorist" organisations, even the internationally-backed Syrian opposition National Coalition criticised the decision.
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On the ground, almost all rebel groups have been willing to cooperate with Al-Nusra, seeing them as distinct from the Islamic State group (IS), which espouses transnational goals and includes many non-Syrians among its ranks.
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[The] history of cooperation [between the various crazies in Syria] has left some rebels and activists on the ground suspicious and even angry about the strikes on Al-Qaeda.
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Some key members are believed to maintain channels of communication with Al-Nusra, including Qatar, which has helped negotiate the release of prisoners held by the group.
McClatchy adds:
Raad Alawi, the commander of a smaller group of fighters, the Squadrons of Al Haq, told McClatchy he was very angry.
“Starting the war with the bombing of Nusra is an indication that this is a war against the revolution and not [ISIS] ... “Maybe next they will bomb the bases of the Free Syrian Army.”
Well, okay ... experts and Syrian Islamic jihadis think there's no distinction between the Khorasans and plain vanilla Al Nusra/Al Qaeda/Free Syrian Army fighters.
But surely America and our allies treat the moderate Syrian rebels ... I mean Al Nusra ... er, I mean the Khorasans ... with a consistent iron fist?
Well, no ... we've been - directly or indirectly - backing them. And - as we've been warning for some time - the boys we're arming are threatening to attack us.
So - while I'd like to believe that I'm being shown the real deal as a justification for long-term, direct involvement - I'm just not buying it .
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Greater Khorasan, a historic region which lies mostly in modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Pakistan. It was previously known as Parthia; later, during the Sassanid era, it was changed to Khorasan.
George Lucas ought to be aple to sue them for this whole narrative playing out.
Terrorists funded by evil madmen plotting to take over the world by creating a global empire, under the guide of "unification", for "protection" against said terrorists. Sound familiar? Ever seen the Star Wars trilogies? Exact same plotline.
"So this is how liberty dies....with thunderous applaudse." - Padme, Star Wars Episode III
Maybe CIAda leaked the name which was a little too truthful combo of Khazarians/ Kardashians.... I got nothing.
Holy crap, am I ever confused, I kept thinking they were talking about Jon Corzine, the billionaire bandit.
LOL!
We are under attack on all fronts by the globalists.
If they wear rags on there heads I don't care what they are called. I call them animals.
And I call you illiterate. "There" heads. Sheesh. My cat spells better than you, and she's just an animal!
you ares so full of your avatar that your eyes are brown
Go shave your head and take a long walk through the desert
I voted up for your pic, not the comment.
failed basic intelligence test.
Is this jackhole talking about these people?
http://www.vice.com/big-night-out/big-night-out-ibiza-clive-martin-229
You, sir, are the worst kind of "animal".
The elitist love hate like this. Keeps them and the MSM busy.
The elitists appear to have you confused, chum.
There is no MSM, only the CorporateMedia.
When a key witness to a corporate corruption trial ends up dead before they can take the stand, no one is ever surprised, and the murderer is never found...
These airstrikes sound like nothing more than a CIA "erase the evidence before it gets out" exercise -
Obama was quick to pull the trigger because he is implicated, and all the idiotic lapdogs in the military need is a point of a finger in the direction of other people, and the magic words "SIC EM, ROVER"; and off they run....
Someone was probably about to come into the light with the documents that tie all these groups to their den-mothers in Washington... and how that someone (and their supporting evidence) are worm-food.
Ricardo Montalban told us all about rich Khorasan leather years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIL3fbGbU2o
The unfortunate recipients of the (most recent) u.s. bombings might as well have been chosen at random.
President mommy pants needed the optics to make him look tough.
It was once again a failure.
Little Orphan Annie with a AK strapped on would still be...
Little Orphan Annie.
Russia is the real target.
http://slavyangrad.org/2014/09/24/the-russia-they-lost/
war is good business
Isn't trust great. Our government detects this new super danger to us and immediately attacks it. Do the Syrian rebel groups file complete reports of their activities, members and future plans with the NSA or the CIA? It's strange that in Boston in the USA, the pre-filing of intended terrorist activities did not work, but overseas it is much more effective. Thankfully the omniscient Obama has acted. Will the government produce a comic book for school children, wherein our superhero Obama destroys the evil Khorasan devils?
Teach the children well. They'll believe in your good vs evil myths.
We are flying airstrikes against invented enemies in Syria to help "friends" in the Middle East whose main interest is getting their natural gas to Europe throiugh Syria.
We have no dog in this fight. If the Europeans want to get this gas, let them fly the airstrikes.
"We have no dog in this fight."
Sorry, dood, but Fraud 101: follow the money.
Back in 2000, there were four Middle Eastern/oil countries of importance which had not yet accepted the WTO's Financial Services Agreement, especially the Fifth Protocol: Iraq, Libay, Syria and Iran.
Today, there are just two countries remaining: Syria and Iran.
Back in 2000, a top DIA dood "leaked" the "fact" that Iran had nuclear weapons (remember, this was back in 2000!).
That DIA dood was Chris Mellon, from the fabulously welath Mellon family. (He would leave the DIA when Bank of NY and Mellon Bank merged.)
Iran still doesn't have any nukes, although they are legally allowed to have nuclear technology, since they are a signatory to the United Nation's ani-nuke proliferation treaty.
(With regard to Libya, also Ghadaffi was trying to get an African union together to only trade for oil in gold, and drop the US Dollar as the trading currency.)
Sarge, everything uou say is true except the part about "we". My dog's sitting here on the porch. I don't identify with usurpers.
Sarge, everything uou say is true except the part about "we". My dog's sitting here on the porch. I don't identify with usurpers.
Dont you dare call the Kardashians fake!
How can they be fake if they have a "reality" show?
???
Kardashians? BULLISH ON BIG BUTT IMPLANTS.
the Kardashians are real, they are getting a divorce "probably over male plastic surgery"
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Khorasans dont exist cuz they are all dead bitchez
The people are waiting for a Mayweather - Pacquiao fight. Bomb cam v. beheading cam is getting old already.
It's getting more like Monty Python's Life of Brian every day.
Remember the scene when the leaders of the "Judean People's Front" want to get it on with the "People's Front of Judea" their arch enemies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE
Those Monty Python people were some of the most acute social commenters around. One can only hope some school kids had their viewpoints changed by watching them.
Aaaaa- lot!
Right, you're in
in german "internet-tv" unknown source claims al-nusra is sad that the bombings killed their best sniper.
may be real may be fake may be an error or may be intentionally
http://www.n-tv.de/politik/Al-Nusra-Front-verliert-besten-Sniper-article...
the siper had the nick "the turk" to strengthen the bizarre
in german "internet-tv" unknown source claims al-nusra is sad that the bombings killed their best sniper.
may be real may be fake may be an error or may be intentionally
http://www.n-tv.de/politik/Al-Nusra-Front-verliert-besten-Sniper-article...
well, if they had a good sniper he was trained at Ft. Benning, anyway; Arabs couldn't hit a goat at 10 yards.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/09/23/Khorasan-More-Dange...
Ah, Breitbart. Whenever we need some ridiculous bullshit, with an edge of dishonesty and that little added touch of bigotry and fear, we know where to go to find it.
It's seems strange when the the neo-con Obama "haters" pick up the propaganda cue from the Obama Administration and amplify the exact same propaganda.
Or maybe not so strange.
Not strange at all. The red and blue teams are the same, especially when you look at the extreme left and right. That is their goals are very much aligned.
The semantics and games played appear different but the results are the same.
bombed the wrong guys, killed lots of innocent men woman and kids as well, like nobody could see this coming.
To correct the situation, wait for the next attack, which will.....kill even more woman and children, feeding enormous US hatred in the region, creating hundreds of more terrorists, but I guess thats what happens when you make up strategy on the golf course surrounded by yes men.
To be fair they did hit some oil refinery infrastructure which will slow down the flow of money, however the bad guys will adapt, any future strikes will be a lot less effective.
Their salaries and weapons are not paid for by oil sales; that was just another absurd lie. they're paid by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the CIA.
i was going to add israel but then, on a net basis, they haven't actually paid for much since '48.
they just make the decisions.
"To be fair they did hit some oil refinery infrastructure"... which only insures that if there is ever "peace" through resolution of the issues that the "normal people" will be without the energy they need for their existance/daily lives...
Syria has Cassus Belli; legitimate cause for declaring war; they are being bombed by another nation. Declar war on the USA; and sink the fucking aircraft carrier; let's see the golfer explain that.
There will never be "peace through resolution of the issues." This is the middle east. It's a never ending succession of groups dedicated to someone else's destruction. The only "good guys" are the people not in power, because as soon as they get any power, it is quickly wielded against someone else.
FALSE. Syria was at peace. It is also a completely secular nation; like the US; Christians and Jews welcome to worship as they please; no religion in government. What gives us the right to slaughter these innocent citizens? Hint; the made up, and paid for, bogey-men, like ISIS; do not make a "right".
Khorasan.
So it isn't the new wonder fabric from which they're making golf slacks?
"Khorasan stretches with your athletic physique as you line up that difficult putt while remaining breathable to avoid a golfers biggest handicap...Swamp-balls.
Winners insist on Khorasan."
Looks like the White House started hiring some marketing types instead of the usual left over lefties they have lounging about everywhere.