The Fake Terror Threat Used to Justify Bombing Syria

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Fake-Terror-Threat-Use-by-Glenn-Greenwald-Bombing_Fake-Faux-Terrorism_Isis_Syria-140929-604.html



The Fake Terror Threat Used to Justify Bombing Syria
By Glenn Greenwald
This article co-written by *Myrtaza Hussain
OpEdNews Op Eds 9/29/2014 at 17:06:54

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.

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AP warned Americans that "the fear is that the Khorasan militants will provide these sophisticated explosives to their Western recruits who could sneak them onto U.S.-bound flights." It explained that although ISIS has received most of the attention, the Khorasan Group "is considered the more immediate threat."

The genesis of the name was itself scary: "Khorasan refers to a province under the Islamic caliphate, or religious empire, of old that included parts of Afghanistan." AP depicted the U.S. officials who were feeding them the narrative as engaging in some sort of act of brave, unauthorized truth-telling: "Many U.S. officials interviewed for this story would not be quoted by name talking about what they said was highly classified intelligence."

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For some reason, this reminds me of Powell's 'aluminum tubes' or the Gulf of Tonkin or ......

[brush]

1. Did you miss the earlier post on Greenwald's article?

It says that Greenwald lied in the article about the administration creating the Khorasan Group to justify bombing ISIS.

You should check it out.

[blm]

2. Greenwald was repeating a RW smear rumor.

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