Sunday, July 25, 2010

Suicide bomber lured foolish CIA agents in to Afghan trap

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The Jordanian three times representative at the back of the Dec self-murder bombing that killed eight CIA agents in Afghanistan claims in a new video that he lured American and Jordanian comprehension officers in to a deadly trap by promulgation them dubious report about apprehension targets, and videotapes he had done of comparison al-Qaeda leaders.

Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, a Jordanian alloy who killed 7 CIA agents and his Jordanian handler in the conflict additionally claims in the post-mortem fasten that he dictated to kidnap usually one Jordanian comprehension officer. However the astonishing event to conflict a large organisation of Americans appears to have been as well great to resist.

"It wasn"t programmed this way," al-Balawi says in an undated, 44-minute videotape expelled on Sunday by as-Sahab, the media arm of al-Qaeda. According to The Washington Post, al-Balawi attributes the shift to "the irrationality of Jordanian comprehension and the irrationality of American intelligence" services that invited him to Afghanistan to assistance set up a set upon opposite al-Qaeda targets.

The CIA had invited al-Balawi to their bottom in Khost, eastern Afghanistan, desiring he was about to hold the locale of bin Ladens deputy, Ayman al- Zawahiri.The accompanying conflict was the deadliest blow opposite the CIA given 1983, and wiped out in one go majority of their inaugural experts on al-Qaeda.

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The video, that has not nonetheless been authenticated, is the second available matter to aspect in that al-Balawi talks of his plan to dig the CIA"s Forward Operating Base Chapman. In Jan al Qaeda claimed that in his will al-Balawi pronounced he was avenging the genocide of Baitullah Mehsud, a Taliban commander in chief killed last year in a CIA barb strike.

In the new video, al-Balawi describes his tour from alloy to self-murder bomber, at one point brandishing what he says is a retard of C4 troops bomb that he programmed to make make use of of in the attack.

Dressed in what appears to be troops uniform, and holding a rifle, he mocks his Jordanian handlers for meditative they could make make use of of him to view on al-Qaeda.

"They attempted to tempt me with income and offering me amounts reaching in to the millions of dollars," he says in the video, that The Washington Post performed from the apprehension monitoring organisation SITE Intelligence Group.

Al-Balawi claims the Jordanians outlayed thousands of dollars to solve him in Pakistan and says his strange goal was to set upon a blow opposite the Jordanian supervision by capturing or murdering his Jordanian handler. However he cancelled that plan, he says but explaining why. In the meantime, he sent the Jordanians videos of the al-Qaeda care as "bait" .

"The attract fell in the right spot, and they went head over heels with excitement," he says.

He pronounced he additionally sent coordinates of Taleban and al-Qaeda positions to the CIA, utilizing a multiple of dubious and correct report "which we thought the rivalry probably already had believe of."

Until the attack, al-Balawi was regarded as one of the CIA"s majority appropriate and majority devoted resources in Afghanistan. The Jordanian comprehension services had taken al-Balawi to eastern Afghanistan to assistance lane down Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden"s right-hand man.

However, his hermit pronounced that he had been radicalised by the harmful descent that Israel launched on Gaza in Dec 2008.

"The Israeli troops operation in Gaza influenced Humam and he longed for to stick on doctors of the Jordan Medical Association as a proffer and go to Gaza,"" pronounced his brother, who would not be named. "Humam was indignant since of the crimes committed by Israel in Gaza," he said.

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