Published in partnership with Shadowproof. United States officials misled the public about a Syrian terrorist group, the Khorasan Group, in the run up to air strikes in the country in 2014. The group was not new, as officials suggested, but essentially a group of reinforcements for the country’s Al Qaeda affiliate. In September 2014, just
The Pentagon Re-Packaged Al Qaeda As ‘Khorasan Group’ To Sell Attack On Syria
Only after the US conducted strikes in Syria against the Khorasan Group, national security officials began offering a “more nuanced picture” on the threat that verged on being outright defensive.