Did US make up Khorasan threat?

THE KHORASAN GROUP: ANATOMY OF A FAKE TERROR THREAT TO JUSTIFY BOMBING SYRIA

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As the Obama administration prepared to bomb Syria without Congressional or U.N. authorization, it faced two problems. The first was the difficulty of sustaining public support for a new years-long war against ISIS, a group that clearly posed no imminent threat to the “homeland.” A second was the lack of legal justification for launching a new bombing campaign with no viable claim of self-defense or U.N. approval. The solution to both problems was found in the wholesale concoction of a brand new terror threat that was branded “The Khorasan Group.” After spending weeks depicting ISIS as an unprecedented threat – too radical even for Al Qaeda! – administration officials suddenly began spoon-feeding their favorite media organizations and national security journalists tales of a secret group that was even scarier and more threatening than ISIS, one that posed a direct and immediate threat to the American Homeland. Seemingly out of nowhere, a new terror group was created in media lore.

Khorasan: The group that isn't

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This piqued my interest. In 14 years of covering this region this was a new name for me. ... I began to make some calls to contacts across the Middle East and South Asia. To say I drew a blank would be an understatement. Reactions ranged from a hearty laugh to confusion. The name was new. In Pakistan I spoke to Ahmed, not his real name, and asked him who the group was. Ahmed is an occasional blogger and activist who openly supports ISIL. He is a veteran of Jihad in Afghanistan and resides in Rawalpindi, surrounded by pamphlets urging Muslims to rise up against the West. "Khorasan? I don't know that name. I don't know who they are."

If it's fake, it's elaborate:

Khorasan leader’s death suggested in militant tweets



And it seemed like the Khorasan bombing was a sideline in the US bombing of Syria, but there may have been some reason to gin up the direct threat to the US.



I'm curious what other people think of this CT claim.

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