'The Khorasan Group Should Scare Us'

Matthew Levitt, writing in PoliticoMagazine, has highlighted the potential threat from the mysterious Khorasan group:

"It seems the United States might have gotten its man. Earlier today a U.S. official told a news outlet that Mohsen al-Fadhli, a longtime al Qaeda operative and head of its shadowy Khorasan Group, was killed in this week’s airstrikes in Syria. Fadhli’s death is already being heralded as a tremendous counterterrorism success: 'We’ve killed the world’s most wanted terrorist,' an anonymous official boasted to the press. But what was it about Fadhli that made him so dangerous? And how did this previously unknown group suddenly appear on the world scene and become, as the director of national intelligence recently testified, at least as much of threat to the U.S. homeland as ISIL—the terrorist group that President Obama called a “network of death” in his speech before the United Nations on Wednesday."