Tweet hints at Khorasan leader's death

A militant who once fought in the Khorasan group offered messages of condolences on Twitter over the death of the Al Qaeda offshoot group's alleged leader, the SITE monitoring group said Saturday.

The messages appeared to provide confirmation that US airstrikes in Syria might have killed Khorasan leader Muhsin Al Fadhli, a long-standing Qaeda operative.

SITE said a series of tweets from the jihadist, identified as a member of Al Qaeda, expressed condolences for the deaths of Fadhli and another Khorasan leader, Abu Yusuf al-Turki.

The US-based monitoring group said the jihadist in Twitter postings dated September 27, 2014, also lamented the situation on the ground in Syria with US-led coalition forces striking, SITE said.

The strikes by US warplanes and cruise missiles targeted the movement as well as the until recently little-known Khorasan group, which Washington has said is plotting attacks against US targets.
 
 

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