The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan was an al-Qaeda double agent, US media reports say.
He is said to have been a doctor from Jordan, arrested there a year ago.
He was then reportedly recruited by the Jordanians and CIA, who wrongly thought they had turned him, and given a mission to find al-Qaeda leaders.
The reports came as the top US military intelligence officer in Afghanistan issued a scathing assessment of the state of the intelligence effort there.
In a report, Maj Gen Michael Flynn said that US intelligence in Afghanistan was still "unable to answer fundamental questions about the environment in which US and allied forces operate and the people they are trying to protect and persuade".
Thursday, January 7, 2010
CIA bomber was CIA double agent.
Already old news, but damn. From BBC:
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This was something right out of a Tom Clancey novel. The double-agent/bomber pretty much wiped out all of Alec station--many of these agents were experts in their field (Afghanistan & Al Qaeda) and won't be replaced easily. Plus there were two Blackwater contractors killed in the attack (why were they even there?).
Read the NY Times article about the CIA personnel killed: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/world/asia/07intel.html?scp=5&sq=cia,%20suicide%20bomber&st=cse.
The bomber was a Palestinian doctor (!) who was so enraged by Israel's brutal invasion of Gaza last year and America's uncritical support of Israel ($$$ and arms--and no resolution of the issues surrounding the West Bank and Gaza) that he decided to do this terrible act of revenge. (I am in no way excusing what he did, just pointing out his motivation.)
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