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By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe suicide bomber who killed eight people at a CIA base in Afghanistan last week was a Jordanian working as an al-Qaeda double agent. Western intelligence officials identified the suicide bomber as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, a 36-year-old doctor from Zarqa, Jordan, the Los Angeles Times reported. Jordanian authorities, working with the CIA, arrested al-Balawi in 2008 and eventually recruited him to infiltrate al-Qaeda, believing he had rejected the terrorist group, according to the Times. "What this tells you is that al-Qaeda is now capable of running a fairly sophisticated ...
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By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 5) -- The suicide bomber who killed eight people inside a CIA base in Afghanistan claimed to have information about Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, and was being recruited as a double agent to infiltrate al-Qaida, a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a foreign government official confirmed Monday. The bombing killed seven CIA employees - four officers and three contracted security guards - and a Jordanian intelligence officer, Ali bin Zaid, according to a second former U.S. intelligence official. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were ...
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