Jordanian double-agent killed CIA officers

[jpak]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34687312/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

The suicide bombing on a CIA base in Afghanistan last week was carried out by a Jordanian doctor who was an al-Qaida double agent, Western intelligence officials told NBC News.

Initial reports said that the attack, which killed seven CIA officers, was carried out by a member of the Afghan National Army.

According to Western intelligence officials, the perpetrator was Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, 36, an al-Qaida sympathizer from the town of Zarqa, which is also the hometown of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian militant Islamist responsible for several devastating attacks in Iraq.

Al-Balawi was arrested by Jordanian intelligence more than a year ago. However, the Jordanians believed that al-Balawi had been successfully reformed and brought over to the American and Jordanian side, setting him up as an agent and sending him off to Afghanistan and Pakistan to infiltrate al-Qaida.

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[arcadian]

1. Fire up the drones!!!

Target: Amman

[tabatha]

2. A doctor?

I thought most suicide bombers were those with nothing to lose and nothing to contribute.

[kentuck]

3. It may take a while to get 7 replacements in there?

This was a big hit on the entire Afghan strategy, I would think?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Quick! Give more money to the CIA! They're ever so effective at...what was it?

[T Wolf]

5. A "healer" killing killers. There must be a little irony in there somewhere. It also shows to go

that the CIA cannot be trusted, even in its choice of "friends" and allies. But then, we already knew that.

[hedgehog]

6. After being processed by Jordanian intelligence, al-Qaida and

the CIA, I'd be amazed if the man even knew what he wanted for breakfast any more.