Intelligence agencies received information about the preparation of the "Al-Qaeda" a new terrorist attack against the United States

Intelligence agencies received information about the preparation of the "Al-Qaeda" a new terrorist attack against the United States

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Militants groups “Khorasan” associated with “Al-Qaeda”, is in the final stages of planning attacks in Europe or the United States

WASHINGTON, September 24. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI notified the United States law enforcement agencies of all American states and cities that extremists from the group “Al Qaeda” in the territory of Syria, planning a terrorist attack against the United States. This was reported by the official representative of the Ministry of National Security March ketron.

“Recent intelligence indicates that the gunmen occupying a high position in the” Al-Qaeda “and based in Syria, were in the final stages of planning attacks in Europe or on the mainland of the United States,” – she said.

Earlier, a similar statement was made by the head of the Pentagon operational control of the Joint Chiefs of the armed forces of the United States, Lieutenant-General William Mayville. He noted that it is a grouping of “Khorasan” associated with “al-Qaeda” and acting on Syrian territory.

“Intelligence reports indicate that the group is in the final stages of the planning commission of attacks on Western targets, possibly in the United States,” – said Mayville.

The general said that the cell “Khorasan”, ready to terrorist attacks, has been destroyed by air strikes, which the Air Force and Navy inflicted by the Islamists in Syria, on the night of Monday to Tuesday.

According to the CIA, the group “Khorasan” command Muhsin al-Fadhli – one of the leaders of “Al-Qaeda”. He was a member of the inner circle of the former “terrorist number one” Osama bin Laden and knew of preparing terrorist attacks September 11, 2001.

In a memo sent out to the MNS and the FBI all American law enforcement agencies also noted that strikes against groups of “Islamic State” (IG) and “Khorasan” may impede their implementation plans of the terrorist attacks on the United States. Any specific information that a terrorist plot matures somewhere within the United States, American intelligence agencies do not have. At the same time, they admit that the attacks against the Islamists in Iraq and Syria could push “homegrown extremists” in the United States to commit terrorist acts.

On Monday, American officials said at a briefing in connection with the visit of President Barack Obama at the UN General Assembly session in New York that some citizens of the United States who were previously in Iraq and Syria, and possibly fought there on the side of the “Islamic state,” returned home, which came under scrutiny of special services.

American officials confirmed sounded earlier estimates, according to which side of the Islamists in Iraq and Syria are fighting to 15 thousand. Fighters from 80 countries, including 2 thousand. Europeans and about 100 citizens of the United States. Among them there are “those who have returned, and are followed by the FBI,” said one of the participants of the briefing. According to him, the secret services now faced with “an unprecedented flow of” potential terrorists, and it speaks of “the scale of the problem.”

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