Glöm ISIS, USA avslöjar nu "super-ISIS" (Khorasan)

Very little information is being released at the moment by anyone within American intelligence circles, but the group calling itself Khorasan is said by officials to have concrete plans for striking targets in the United States and Europe as a chosen modus operandi – more so than the Islamic State (IS), formerly known as ISIS.

The first ever mention of the group occurred on Thursday at an intelligence gathering in Washington DC, when National Intelligence Director James Clapper admitted that “in terms of threat to the homeland, Khorasan may pose as much of a danger as the Islamic State.”

According to the New York Times, some US officials have gone as far as saying that, while the Islamic State is undoubtedly more prominent in its show of force in the Middle East, it is Khorasan who's intent on oversees campaigns in a way Al Qaeda usually is.

Terrorgruppen Khorasan planerade att attackera USA eller Europa – med bomber gjorda av tandkrämstuber och kläder dränkta i explosiva ämnen.

Det avslöjar källor inom amerikanska underrättelsetjänsten för CNN.

French jihadist David Drugeon, an alleged bomb maker for an Al-Qaeda affiliate, has been killed in a coalition strike in Syria, a US official said Friday.

Drugeon has been described as a key figure in the Al-Qaeda offshoot Khorasan group, which operates in Syria and which American officials say is a dangerous militant outfit planning to attack the United States and other Western countries.
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"He's definitely dead," a US official told AFP on Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Drugeon was hit in a strike in July, according to a second US official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.

According to that official, Drugeon was a "very key technical member" of the Khorasan group and an expert at making "non-metallic Improvised Explosive Devices" -- the military term for homemade bombs.

"Khorasan is a very dangerous organization which uses cutting-edge technology for (preparing) attacks in the West," the official said.

Drugeon's death was also announced on Twitter by a Saudi jihadist.

Drugeon, who went by the nom de guerre Hamza al-Faransi, had become a "martyr," said Sanafi al-Nasr, one of the leaders of the Al-Nusra Front, another Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria.

He tweeted an old photo of Drugeon, saying he was killed west of Aleppo in the middle of Ramadan, at the start of July.