8 CIA Agents Killed In Afghanistan
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January 6, 2010
Jordanian suicide bomber who killed CIA agents 'was triple agent'
The Jordanian suicide bomber who killed several CIA agents in Afghanistan
last week fooled Amman's intelligence agency into believing that he was a
reliable informant spying on the al-Qaeda leadership.
But Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi was a triple-agent leading an
extraordinary life on the front line of America's war against militant
Islam. An investigation by The Times has revealed that the trainee doctor
became an open and public supporter of al-Qaeda, secretly pretended to work
for Jordanian intelligence but ultimately sacrificed his life for the cause
of jihad.
On December 30 al-Balawi infiltra-ted Forward Operating Base Chapman in
Khost province near the Pakistan border. He detonated explosives strapped to
his body and killed seven CIA agents and his Jordanian handler, Ali bin
Zaid, an army captain and distant cousin of King Abdullah II. The Hashemite
monarch, his wife, and other Royal Family members attended bin Zaid's
funeral on Friday.
A Jordanian official admitted yesterday that al-Balawi had provided the
country's General Intelligence Department (GID) with valuable "tips" a few
months ago "that allowed us to abort a terrorist operation that would have
threatened the security and stability of our country".
The official said that al-Balawi had been interrogated by officers from the
GID in March 2009 because of suspicions about his activities. He had been
released because the inquiry found "nothing relevant".
"Months later he contacted us via e-mail and provided information about ill
intentions against Jordan, and allowed us to foil terrorist operations
targeting the Kingdom. So we decided to pursue our contacts with him on a
friendly basis to safeguard our country," the official told The Times.
Jihadist websites, however, revealed that al-Balawi was working for his
handlers' enemies. They said that the GID, believing the bomber to be its
double agent, took him to eastern Afghanistan, to help to track Ayman
al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician and said to be second-in-command of
al-Qaeda, who US intelligence officials believe is hiding in the lawless
border region. Jordan has had strong intelligence co-operation with the CIA
since 9/11. Its counter-terror teams operating inside the Iraqi border
helped US forces in 2006 to track and kill Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of
al-Qaeda in Iraq. It was with the same aim in mind that Jordan is thought to
have monitored al-Balawi, who was an aspiring doctor.
According to records of the Jordan Medical Association, al-Balawi graduated
from Istanbul University in 2002. He then worked as an intern in two
hospitals, one run by the Muslim Brotherhood charity. He went on to practise
medicine in a clinic in Hittin Palestinian refugee camp near Zarqa in
Jordan, also the home town of al-Zarqawi.
Al-Balawi became attracted to militant Islam and moderated the online
radical Islamic forum, Hisbah.net, based in Yemen, often saying that his
ultimate dream in life was to die as a martyr in the holy war against the US
and Israel. In an interview on September 26 last year al-Balawi said he had
"been moulded on the love for jihad since my childhood". He vowed to "take
up arms, and to wear an explosive belt, to avenge the killing of children
and women in the Gaza War".
He also said that he decided to leave his pro-jihadist writings in favour of
"real jihad on the ground, because I came to realise that preaching about
jihad is not enough ... You have to carry out jihad in practice."
He said he hoped to meet all jihadist writers who shared his vision and
contributed to jihadist websites "in al-Fardous" - the Arabic for Paradise.
Mohammad Abu Rumman, a prominent Jordanian analyst of radical Islamic
movements, said that al-Balawi, a member of the younger generation of
jihadists, was heavily influenced by Osama Bin Laden, al-Zarqawi, the US-led
war on Iraq and the 2008 Israeli attack against Gaza.
"He is one of the key al-Qaeda spokesmen," said Abu Rumman. "He always
called for jihad against the Americans and the Israelis." Jihadist websites
said al-Balawi was also nicknamed "the doctor of Mujahidin". They said that
he was the first Arab to join the ranks of the Taleban in Pakistan.
Al-Balawi was born in Kuwait on December 25, 1977, and moved to Jordan with
his family after Iraq invaded in 1991 - a time when many Jordanians were
forced to flee the emirate. His father owns two pharmacies in Zarqa. The
al-Balawi Bedu tribe is from Tabuk, in western Saudi Arabia, and has
branches in Jordan, the West Bank and the Sinai Peninsula. Al-Balawi, also
known as Abu Dujana al-Khorasani, was married to a Turkish woman, said by
relatives to be a journalist, and had two young daughters. His immediate
family lives in Nuzha, a mixed middle and working-class neighbourhood in
Amman.
A high school friend, Mohammad Yousef, said al-Balawi told family and
friends in March that he was going to Turkey to take an exam that would have
allowed him to practise medicine in the US. Instead, he went to Afghanistan,
where he joined other Arab fighters with al-Qaeda.
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> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6977047.ece
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> January 6, 2010
>
> Jordanian suicide bomber who killed CIA agents 'was triple agent'
> The Jordanian suicide bomber who killed several CIA agents in Afghanistan
> last week fooled Amman's intelligence agency into believing that he was a
> reliable informant spying on the al-Qaeda leadership.
>
> But Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi was a triple-agent leading an
> extraordinary life on the front line of America's war against militant
> Islam. An investigation by The Times has revealed that the trainee doctor
> became an open and public supporter of al-Qaeda, secretly pretended to
> work for Jordanian intelligence but ultimately sacrificed his life for the
> cause of jihad.
>
> On December 30 al-Balawi infiltra-ted Forward Operating Base Chapman in
> Khost province near the Pakistan border. He detonated explosives strapped
> to his body and killed seven CIA agents and his Jordanian handler, Ali bin
> Zaid, an army captain and distant cousin of King Abdullah II. The
> Hashemite monarch, his wife, and other Royal Family members attended bin
> Zaid's funeral on Friday.
>
> A Jordanian official admitted yesterday that al-Balawi had provided the
> country's General Intelligence Department (GID) with valuable "tips" a few
> months ago "that allowed us to abort a terrorist operation that would have
> threatened the security and stability of our country".
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