"He who cooks the poison eats it.": US Announces Death of Khorasan Leader

Thursday 23 July 2015

"He who cooks the poison eats it.": US Announces Death of Khorasan Leader

Local Editor

"He who cooks the poison eats it." A proverb that best describes the US policy towards terrorism.

After it funded and supported the establishment of the Khorasan terrorist group, Washington announced the killing of the group's leader.

The Pentagon announced that "a US-led coalition air strike earlier this month killed the leader of an al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria that American officials accuse of plotting attacks against the United States and its allies."

Muhsin al-Fadhli was killed in a "kinetic strike" on July 8 while traveling in a vehicle near the northwestern Syrian town of Sarmada, said Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman.

He did not confirm whether a drone or a manned aircraft had killed Fadhli, 34.

Fadhli was allegedly the leader of the Khorasan Group, a group of senior al-Qaeda members who have traveled from Central Asia and elsewhere in the Middle East.

The Kuwaiti-born militant was so trusted by the inner circle of late al-Qaeda supreme leader Osama bin Laden that he was among the few who knew in advance about the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, according to US intelligence.

"His death will degrade and disrupt ongoing external operations of al-Qaeda against the United States and its allies and partners," said Davis, who heads the War Department's press operations.

Officials say Khorasan is part of al-Qaeda's Syrian branch, al-Nusra Front, though experts and activists cast doubt on the distinction between the two groups.

The US State Department had posted a $7 million reward for information leading to Fadhli's death or detention.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

22-07-2015 | 12:16

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