Pentagon: Airstrike killed the leader of the militant Khorasan Group

A longtime member of al-Qaeda who led the Khorasan Group, a small circle of militants in Syria planning attacks on Western targets, was killed July 8 in an airstrike, the Pentagon said Tuesday.Muhsin al-Fadhli, 34, was killed while traveling in a vehicle in Sarmada, in northwest Syria, according to the statement released by Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, director of Pentagon press operations. Fadhli was among those few al-Qaeda members who had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and he was also involved in operations in October 2002 that targeted U.S. Marines on Failaka Island in Kuwait and a French ship, MV Limburg, off the coast of Yemen, Davis said.Read full article >>