The UN has removed alleged Khorasan leader Mohammed Islambouli from AQ sanctions list.

The UN has removed (Turkey based?) Mohammed Islambouli from AQ sanctions list. (UN).

Decision Taken Following Review of Delisting Request Submitted through Office of the Ombudsperson

On 26 October 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities removed the name below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List after concluding its consideration of the delisting requests for this name submitted through the Office of the Ombudsperson established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1904 (2009), and after considering the Comprehensive Report of the Ombudsperson on this delisting request.

Therefore, the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2161 (2014) no longer apply to the name set out below.

A. Individuals

QDi.194 Name: 1: MOHAMMED 2: AHMED 3: SHAWKI 4: AL ISLAMBOLLY. Hmmm......How badly does Erdogan want SISI Gone? Read the full story here.

Mohammed Islambouli has a long history of participation and leadership in extremist groups, culminating in a partnership with Osama bin-Laden and al-Qaeda in the 1990s. Islambouli is reportedly “an expert in hijacking planes,”* and led an al-Qaeda cell in Qatar with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.* In 1998, President Clinton was reportedly briefed about a hijacking plot involving Islambouli, although it is unclear whether Islambouli played a direct role in the 9/11 attacks.* Islambouli is the brother of Khaled al-Islambouli, one of the men convicted of assassinating Egypt’s former president Anwar Sadat. Certain reports state that Islambouli, and not Muhsin al-Fadhli, is the leader of Khorasan. - Read his full profile here. HT And Source:

...when it comes to the actual evidence. I have a thick dossier on Islambouli -- very senior AQ member and leader of "Khorasan Group."

— Thomas Joscelyn (@thomasjoscelyn) October 27, 2015

The UN has removed Mohammed Islambouli from AQ sanctions list: https://t.co/sUcN3nNe3B (h/t @alleyesonjihad) This move makes no sense...

— Thomas Joscelyn (@thomasjoscelyn) October 27, 2015

Islambouli was last reported in Turkey, according to press. Is he still there? Did Turkey/Erdogan play a role in delisting?

— Thomas Joscelyn (@thomasjoscelyn) October 27, 2015

There have been some funky stories with respect the UN sanctions list over the years, but this is one of the funkiest.

— Thomas Joscelyn (@thomasjoscelyn) October 27, 2015

Obama White House exempts Syria airstrikes from tight standards on civilian deaths....after being sole authority approving strikes.

Obama White House exempts Syria airstrikes from tight standards on civilian deaths....after being sole authority approving strikes. (Yahoo).

Amid reports of women and children killed in U.S. air offensive, official says the 'near certainty' policy doesn’t apply.

The White House has acknowledged for the first time that strict standards President Obama imposed last year to prevent civilian deaths from U.S. drone strikes will not apply to U.S. military operations in Syria and Iraq.

A White House statement to Yahoo News confirming the looser policy came in response to questions about reports that as many as a dozen civilians, including women and young children, were killed when a Tomahawk missile struck the village of Kafr Daryan in Syria's Idlib province on the morning of Sept. 23.

The village has been described by Syrian rebel commanders as a reported stronghold of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front where U.S officials believed members of the so-called Khorasan group were plotting attacks against international aircraft.

Asked about the strike at Kafr Daryan, a U.S. Central Command spokesman said Tuesday that U.S. military “did target a Khorasan group compound near this location. However, we have seen no evidence at this time to corroborate claims of civilian casualties.” But Caitlin Hayden, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, told Yahoo News that Pentagon officials “take all credible allegations seriously and will investigate” the reports.

At the same time, however, Hayden said that a much-publicized White House policy that President Obama announced last year barring U.S. drone strikes unless there is a “near certainty” there will be no civilian casualties — "the highest standard we can meet," he said at the time — does not cover the current U.S. airstrikes in Syria and Iraq.

The “near certainty” standard was intended to apply “only when we take direct action ‘outside areas of active hostilities,’ as we noted at the time,” Hayden said in an email. “That description — outside areas of active hostilities — simply does not fit what we are seeing on the ground in Iraq and Syria right now.”

Hayden added that U.S. military operations against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) in Syria, "like all U.S. military operations, are being conducted consistently with the laws of armed conflict, proportionality and distinction."

The laws of armed conflict prohibit the deliberate targeting of civilian areas and require armed forces to take precautions to prevent inadvertent civilian deaths as much as possible.

But one former Obama administration official said the new White House statement raises questions about how the U.S. intends to proceed in the conflict in Syria and Iraq, and under what legal authorities.

“They seem to be creating this grey zone” for the conflict, said Harold Koh, who served as the State Department’s top lawyer during President Obama’s first term. “If we’re not applying the strict rules [to prevent civilian casualties] to Syria and Iraq, then they are of relatively limited value." Hmmm....At least the US military has one comfort all strikes are 'personally' approved by pres Obama.

President Obama has asked to personally sign off on all airstrikes against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) targets in Syria, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

@pdmastersnyu @MichaelvdGalien @YahooNews Hmm....Obama personally to approve all strikes on ISIS http://t.co/6yAmgatFvq
— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) October 1, 2014

Video - details of "Khorasan/ Wolf Unit" story.

Video - details of "Khorasan/ Wolf Unit" story.(AlaanTV). [Google translate]. Since the United States Air raids targeted in Syria, the whole world is talking about the group that he called Americans "Khorasan".

Since I spoke with a few Movdtna Janan Moses, which will have more information about this group, and after that I managed to get pictures and documents from the headquarters of a private group that was targeted by American planes still ABG named by the United States Khorasan a mystery to the world.

What we know about the group are sites which bombed by American planes, and the news of the killing of the sniper Abu Yusuf Turkish, and Abu Hajer Egyptian during the bombing, two of the most important leaders of al-Qaeda in Syria. managed channel now have access to a headquarters locations destroyer of what defines a set of Khorasan in the countryside of engineers in the countryside Aleppo.

For the first time we were able to verify the buildings bombed and take pictures of the debris. first picture is the general picture of a headquarters hit by American planes.

As you can see, was completely destroyed. in another picture, we see a military uniform among the rubble. , and this car was completely destroyed. , and here we found some books Religious: each one in Arabic and Turkish language under the title: the jurisprudence of jihad. among the debris also a poster of the flags of all the countries in the world.

Someone wrote beside the Syrian flag, "al-Qaeda in Syria" and beside the Egyptian flag, "Al-Qaeda in Egypt." This is a picture of other important underground tunnel near a headquarters targeted by the raids. , but the most important thing we found in a headquarters in the countryside of engineers is this list. Where fourteen names.

According to the document, thirteen of them belong to the group of the wolf in front of victory. Abu Yousef al-Turki, a sniper Front famous victory, was leading this group have been killed by the shelling on the American-based. names in the list shows that four of the fighters with Turkish nationality.

And two from Egypt, two from Yemen, and two from Tunisia, as well as Palestinian and one Serb and one Caucasian and one. Sources say that Hola three dozen of the group Wolf were all settled in the countryside of engineers and specifically in the headquarters bombed by American planes.

Just like their leader Abu Yusuf Turkish, it is believed that some of the names mentioned in the list were killed during air raids. Based on these images, documents can conclude the following: The so-called Group of Khorasan, are in fact set the wolf and other groups of foreign fighters within the Front victory.

Saw me this video on the net for the set wolf. group Khorasan are members of al-Qaeda is the Syrians who have combat experience in Afghanistan and Pakistan and are now in Syria, fighting under the banner of Front victory. According to the sources, targeted three goals in the countryside of engineers: are Faltan and training camp one American planes did not bomb the seven other villas in the area belonging to the Front victory.

Killed in the bombing nearly fifty fighters from the victory and was able to escape about two hundred. engineers in the countryside there were no casualties among the civilians, contrary to what happened in other sites targeted by warplanes. Hmmm....As usual a heavy 'Turkish' involvement.

Pretty obvious how the Turks feel about America.

Update and Related:  Is Khorasan's real name "the Wolf Unit of Jabhat al-Nusra"?

Fight against terrorists in Syria must proceed in cooperation with Damascus - Lavrov

Fight against terrorists in Syria must proceed in cooperation with Damascus - Lavrov. (RBTH).

The terrorists in Syria can only be countered in cooperation with the Syrian government, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. 

"The struggle against terrorists in Syria must proceed in cooperation with the Syrian government, which has clearly declared readiness for it," he told the UN General Assembly.

He said that the key task of the world community is "to firmly resist terrorists trying to assume control over ever vaster territories in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, the Sahara-Sahel zone." 

"If so, this objective cannot be sacrificed to ideological patterns or attempts to settle personal accounts. Terrorists whatever slogans they may be using must remain outlaws," the minister said. 

"The terrorist threat requires a comprehensive approach, if we want to eradicate its causes instead of being doomed to react to the symptoms. ISIS is only part of the problem," Lavrov said. Read the full story here.

Khorasan leader killed by U.S. strike in Syria

Khorasan leader killed by U.S. strike in Syria. (Taz).

A Twitter account run by an Qaeda member said the leader of the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan group was killed in a U.S. air strike in Syria, SITE monitoring service said on Sunday, following several days of uncertainty over whether he survived the raid, Reuters reported.

A U.S. official on Sept. 24 said the United States believed Mohsin al-Fadhli, a senior al Qaeda operative, had been killed in a strike a day earlier, but the Pentagon said several hours later that it was still investigating what had happened to him.

In a message posted on Sept. 27, the jihadist offered condolences for the death of Kuwaiti-born Fadhli, otherwise known as Abu Asmaa al-Kuwati or Abu Asmaa al-Jazrawi, following the Sept. 23 air strike, SITE reported.

U.S. officials have described Khorasan as a network of seasoned al Qaeda fighters with battlefield experience mostly in Pakistan and Afghanistan that is now working in league with al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front.

Khorasan is a term for an area including parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan where al Qaeda’s main council is believed to be in hiding.

After the Sept. 23 strikes, U.S. officials said they were was still assessing how badly Khorasan had been hit. Islamist militants on social media have said there were unconfirmed reports that the 33-year-old Fadhli had been killed.

SITE did not name the jihadist who reported Fadhli's death but said he had trained under a close associate of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri and had fought in Khorasan before traveling to Syria.

A 2012 State Department notice offering a $7 million reward for information on Fadhli's whereabouts said he was an al Qaeda financier close to al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden and among the few who knew in advance about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

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Khorasan, explained: why the US is bombing an al-Qaeda group you’ve never heard of

Report: Leader of Khorasan group killed in Syria strikes.

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Report: Leader of Khorasan group killed in Syria strikes.(Middleeasteye).


Leader of a little-known militant group in Syria, known as Khorasan, was killed in a US airstrike on Tuesday in Syria, militant sources confirmed on Wednesday.

Muhsin al-Fadhli, a Kuwaiti-born al-Qaida leader, was killed along with his wife and daughter in the raids that targeted several group sites in the northwestern province of Idlib, the sources, which have close links to al-Fadhli's family in Kuwait, told Anadolu Agency.

"It was obvious that Washington had set its eyes on al-Fadhli for some time now," one of the sources told AA, citing US media reports quoting officials that Khorasan could pose a more direct threat to the United States than the militant Islamic State in Syria.

Al-Fadhli's reported death could not be verified by an independent source.

No comment was issued by the Kuwaiti authorities or his family on the matter either.