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Ivan Eland
Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute
Legal Basis for U.S. War in Iraq and Syria Is Thin
U.S. government officials recently began hyping the threat
from a very small and little-known terrorist group called Khorasan and
then striking it in Syria. Several of President Obama's aides told the
media that airstrikes were launched to foil an "imminent" terrorist
attack, possibly using hidden explosives to blow up aircraft. Yet other
government officials seemed to pour cold water on that assessment.
According to the New York Times, one anonymous senior official described
the Khorasan plot as only "aspirational" and said that the group had
not seemed to have established a concrete plan. Other officials, at
least one of who was a senior counterterrorism official, said that the
plot was far from mature and that no sign existed that the group had
decided on the method of attack or the time and target of it.
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