September 25, 2014 | Quote
What Is the Khorasan Group and Why Is It Being Targeted by the U.S.?
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But Mustafa Alani, senior advisor and program director in security and terrorism studies at the Gulf Research Center, told BuzzFeed that Al-Fadhli is “not a field commander” and “more of a preacher than a commander.” Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a counter-terrorism analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, believes Al-Fadhli is not the group's leader, but rather “the head of [Khorasan's] external operations.”
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