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Al Qaeda Plotters in Syria ‘Went Dark,’ U.S. Spies Say

Disappeared

U.S. intelligence agencies learned this summer of a plot from al Qaeda veterans to attack European and American airplanes. Then the Khorasan Group went dark.

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Over the summer, as ISIS fighters were winning swaths of territory in Iraq, U.S. intelligence agencies were also focused on the group’s ostensible jihadist rivals in neighboring Syria.

American analysts had pieced together detailed information on a pending attack from an outfit that informally called itself “the Khorasan Group” to use...

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