No, it's not a Damascus real estate firm, and no, it's not one of George Lucas's investment companies. It's actually one of the leading members of the ultimate growth industry: Barack Obama's imaginary strawmen:
On September 13th, the New York Times reported that American officials said "the group called Khorasan had emerged in the past year as the cell in Syria that may be the most intent" on striking the United States homeland, but foreign policy analysts and experts argue the term "Khorasan group" is nothing more than a name created by the Obama administration.
"What is being discussed is not a 'new terrorist group,' but rather a specialized cell that has gradually been established within, or on, the fringes of an already existing al-Qaida franchise, the so-called Nusra Front," said Aron Lund of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
In fact, Lund asserts that the "label has simply been invented for convenience by U.S. intelligence or adopted from informal references within the Nusra Front to these men as being, for example, 'our brothers from Khorasan.'"
But it is a term that has gained popularity with administration officials, including President Barack Obama.
And why would that be? Are the Obamunists closet Star Wars geeks? Did the name sound "cool," like a jihadist group you could invent in Call of Duty?
Well, you're getting warm:
On September 23rd, Obama stood on the South Lawn to deliver a statement on airstrikes in Syria and said that the U.S. "also took strikes to disrupt plotting against the United States and our allies by seasoned al-Qaida operatives in Syria who are known as the Khorasan group."
The Pentagon also used the term in its announcement the same day that the U.S. had targeted other groups in Syria to disrupt imminent attack plotting by "a network of seasoned al-Qaida veterans — sometimes referred to as the Khorasan group" that had sought refuge in Syria.
Sounds impressive, doesn't it? Bolsters the "Barack Obama, scourge of terrorists" image that the bagging of Osama bin Laden created and has grown more flaccid than every penis within a hundred-mile radius of Hillary Clinton since the Benghazi disaster two years ago. "Look, Godbama is striking down jihadists before they even formulate plots! He's so awesome! ISIS who?"
But there's just one teensy-tiny problem: Nobody in the Middle East has ever heard of the KG:
Imran Khan, a foreign correspondent for Al Jazeera based on Doha, Qatar, said he called contacts in the region to find out who the group was.
"To say I drew a blank would be an understatement. Reactions ranged from a hearty laugh to confusion. The name was new," he writes.
Khan even called a source who openly supports ISIS and is a veteran of Jihad in Afghanistan and he responded, "Khorasan? I don't know that name. I don't know who they are."
"What it clearly isn't is a name that Jihadists know or use," he adds.
So the "Khorasan Group" is a band of imaginary jihadists that Barack Obama triumphantly vanquished, just like the ten million imaginary jobs he boasts of having created, the imaginary de-nuclearization of Iran he'll be boasting about right before the midterms while waving a peace of paper, Neville Chamberlain-like, the imaginary air campaign against ISIS he's "waging," etc., etc., etc. I'd keep going, but I don't want to crash the Blogger server.
Exit question: Can anybody get into this jihadist rename game or is it just for the White House? Because I nominate renaming the Islamic State the "Inconvenient Story". Either that, or "Involuntary Suicide". Which is where we're nationally headed.
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