Posted on 10/06/2014 6:13:29 AM PDT by blam
Mitchell Prothero
October 5, 2014
IRBIL, Iraq — A former French intelligence officer who defected to al Qaida was among the targets of the first wave of U.S. air strikes in Syria last month, according to people familiar with the defector’s movements and identity.
Two European intelligence officials described the former French officer as the highest ranking defector ever to go over to the terrorist group and called his defection one of the most dangerous developments in the West’s long confrontation with al Qaida.
The identity of the officer is a closely guarded secret. Two people, independently of one another, provided the same name, which McClatchy is withholding pending further confirmation. All of the sources agreed that a former French officer was one of the people targeted when the United States struck eight locations occupied by the Nusra Front, al Qaida’s Syrian affiliate. The former officer apparently survived the assault, which included strikes by 47 cruise missiles.
U.S. officials have acknowledged that the assault on the Nusra Front locations, which came as the Americans and coalition partners also struck Islamic State positions elsewhere, was aimed at members of what the Obama administration has dubbed the Khorasan group, a unit of top-level terror operatives who had been dispatched to Syria to plot attacks on the West.
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So we order airstrikes to get one man.
Just have the Mossad take him out, it’s cleaner and cheaper.
So Obama is judge and jury now??
It is odd how the recipient of a nobel peace prize acts.
476 cruise missiles and we still missed. obama is up to his usual standards
uh.. make that 47 cruise missiles and one fat finger ;-)
Willing to bet that this “French” agent is some mo-ham-head immigrant to France that the French were dumb enough to trust as an intelligence agent.
But of course!
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