Former U.S. counterterror chief: 'Imminent threat' remains ~ By Kevin Liptak

"I think it's unlikely that threat's altogether been eliminated," Olsen said, adding that some senior leaders with the group had been killed.

Before the strikes began in Syria, U.S. government officials had barely acknowledged the presence of Khorasan, which formed from former al Qaeda members. Sources have said the group has the same aim as ISIS: recruiting and training foreign fighters who could return home to stage attacks.

While Olsen said foreign fighters present a broad risk to Americans' security, the potential for so-called "lone wolf" attacks by unaffiliated terrorists also worries officials.

The Khorasan Group (which can also be spelled as "Khorosan" Group) is a threat, even after U.S. airstrikes. However, I beg to differ.  The 'imminent threat' of "Khorasan" may remain, but I don't think it is THE imminent threat that this country is facing. Our enemy may be here already. The truly imminent threat: the homegrown, lone wolf ("non-affiliated") terrorist. ISIS has already found out that it's easy to brainwash those that are newly radicalized Islamists via the social networks (youtube, Facebook).

However, there is a way to counter that problem of homegrown terrorists. Help them on their way to paradise by paying their way over to Syria/Iraq (the Islamist State).

Here is part of my idea, with credit to Greg Gutfeld:

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Hey, here is the rest of the idea: Give those that want to go to Syria/Iraq to fight for ISIS a pre-paid VISA card, don't confiscate their passport, and track their every move. Place a tracking chip on every card or passport, but put a $100 thousand on the card so they won't get rid of it, no matter what. They'll be vaporized long before they can use the full amount. Or, they'll just go to Vegas, get drunk, and fall of a balcony from their 18th floor penthouse. Either way, the problem of the lone wolf homegrown terrorist will be over, and it won't cost that much. Just sayin'...

Former U.S. counterterror chief: 'Imminent threat' remains

By Kevin Liptak

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 ~ Updated 7:28 PM EDT

From CNN.com

Washington (CNN) - The former head of U.S. counterterror operations said Tuesday the "imminent threat" posed by an al Qaeda offshoot in Syria hasn't lessened after a U.S. air campaign there.

Speaking to CNN's Jim Sciutto, Matt Olsen said by his analysis the threat from the Khorasan group "is still in the same place as it was before" President Barack Obama ordered airstrikes against the terror operation last month.

"This group was in a position to train without any sort of interference, they were able to recruit operatives," said Olsen, who stepped down as director of the National Counterterrorism Center in September. "We saw that they were looking to test explosives. So they were in the advanced stages of plotting. They had both intent and that capability that put them nearing an execution phase of an attack."

President Obama announced strikes against Khorasan in September at the same time he began the mission to "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State terror group in Syria and Iraq. At the time, senior officials described the threat posed by Khorasan as "imminent."

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VIDEO: Iran offers help in defeating ISIS... What? With nuclear IEDs?

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The Khorosan Group Does Not Exist ~ By Andrew C. McCarthy

You haven’t heard of the Khorosan Group because there isn’t one. It is a name the administration came up with, calculating that Khorosan — the Iranian–​Afghan border region — had sufficient connection to jihadist lore that no one would call the president on it.

Barack Obama's administration depends on people being the typical low-info sheeple. That translates into low-info voters. However, now the story is out, and thanks to Andy McCarthy, there's no way to ever get this story erased from the minds of the sheeple if they see or hear about it. Sadly, they probably won't. Isn't it sad that We the People have to be deceived in order for some people to be able to stay in power? Just sayin'...

The Khorosan Group Does Not Exist
It’s a fictitious name the Obama administration invented to deceive us.

Andrew C. McCarthy

By Andrew C. McCarthy

September 27, 2014 4:00 AM

From National Review Online

We’re being had. Again.

For six years, President Obama has endeavored to will the country into accepting two pillars of his alternative national-security reality. First, he claims to have dealt decisively with the terrorist threat, rendering it a disparate series of ragtag jayvees. Second, he asserts that the threat is unrelated to Islam, which is innately peaceful, moderate, and opposed to the wanton “violent extremists” who purport to act in its name.

Now, the president has been compelled to act against a jihad that has neither ended nor been “decimated.” The jihad, in fact, has inevitably intensified under his counterfactual worldview, which holds that empowering Islamic supremacists is the path to security and stability. Yet even as war intensifies in Iraq and Syria — even as jihadists continue advancing, continue killing and capturing hapless opposition forces on the ground despite Obama’s futile air raids — the president won’t let go of the charade.

Hence, Obama gives us the Khorosan Group.

The who?

There is a reason that no one had heard of such a group until a nanosecond ago, when the “Khorosan Group” suddenly went from anonymity to the “imminent threat” that became the rationale for an emergency air war there was supposedly no time to ask Congress to authorize.

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