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Sunday, May 24, 2015

Terror threat

Canadians may belong to al-Qaida’s highly secretive Khorasan faction, intelligence report warns


Heavy smoke rises following an airstrike by the US-led coalition aircraft in Kobani, Syria, during fighting between Syrian Kurds and ISIL, as seen from the outskirts of Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, Oct. 15, 2014. While the current debate over Canada’s counterterrorism measures has focused largely on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), experts and officials say its rival, al-Qaida, has exploited the lawlessness in Syria to establish a beachhead on Europe’s doorstep from which to launch attacks.
The day after the United States and its Arab allies launched airstrikes in Syria last September, President Barack Obama advised American lawmakers the targets had included “elements of al-Qaida known as the Khorasan Group.” Khorasan was described as a terrorist faction operating in Syria that had been set up by the senior al-Qaida leadership to recruit Westerners, train them and send them back to North America and Europe to conduct bombings.
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