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Pentagon: Khorasan in Syria Was "Nearing the Execution Phase" of an Attack
(CBS News) Rebecca Kaplan - Khorasan, the al-Qaeda-affiliated group the U.S. struck unilaterally in Syria, was "nearing the execution phase of an attack either in Europe or the homeland," Lt. Gen. William Mayville, director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday. "We know that the Khorasan group has attempted to recruit Westerners to serve as operatives or to infiltrate back into their homelands. The Khorasan group is clearly not focused on either the Assad regime or the Syrian people. They are establishing roots in Syria in order to advance attacks against the West and the homeland."