Double agent in jihad call from beyond the grave
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March 1, 2010, Monday
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AN al-Qaida double agent who killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian spy called for jihad in Jordan and attacks on its intelligence agency in a posthumous video message posted on extremist Websites yesterday.
In the 43-minute video, Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi also described his recruitment by Jordanian intelligence and how he double crossed them after they sent him to Afghanistan to spy on al-Qaida.
The video was apparently filmed shortly before the 32-year-old al-Balawi blew himself up at a CIA facility on December 30 in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost where he'd been invited to reveal information on al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.
Al-Balawi said he only expected to kill his Jordanian handler, Ali bin Zaid, but the addition of CIA members would be a windfall.
"We planned for something but got a bigger gift, a gift from Allah, who brought us, through his accompaniment, a valuable prey: Americans, and from the CIA. That's when I became certain that the best way to teach Jordanian intelligence and the CIA a lesson is with the martyrdom belt," he said in the video.
The secretive eastern Afghan CIA base was reportedly used as a key outpost in the effort to identify and target terror leaders, many of whom were taken out by drone-fired missile strikes.
It was one of the worst losses for the CIA and revealed the cooperation between the American and Jordanian intelligence services.
Al-Balawi, who appeared in a military fatigues cradling an assault rifle and what appeared to be C4 explosives, described the successes of Jordanian intelligence against extremists over the years and their close working relationship with the CIA.
He said Jordan had provided information for the killing of al-Qaida in Iraq chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 2006 as well as that of top Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh, who died in a car bomb explosion in Damascus in 2008.
"The Jordanian intelligence apparatus has a record which emboldens them to such behavior, but with Allah's permission, after this operation, they will never stand on their feet again," he said.
In the 43-minute video, Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi also described his recruitment by Jordanian intelligence and how he double crossed them after they sent him to Afghanistan to spy on al-Qaida.
The video was apparently filmed shortly before the 32-year-old al-Balawi blew himself up at a CIA facility on December 30 in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost where he'd been invited to reveal information on al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.
Al-Balawi said he only expected to kill his Jordanian handler, Ali bin Zaid, but the addition of CIA members would be a windfall.
"We planned for something but got a bigger gift, a gift from Allah, who brought us, through his accompaniment, a valuable prey: Americans, and from the CIA. That's when I became certain that the best way to teach Jordanian intelligence and the CIA a lesson is with the martyrdom belt," he said in the video.
The secretive eastern Afghan CIA base was reportedly used as a key outpost in the effort to identify and target terror leaders, many of whom were taken out by drone-fired missile strikes.
It was one of the worst losses for the CIA and revealed the cooperation between the American and Jordanian intelligence services.
Al-Balawi, who appeared in a military fatigues cradling an assault rifle and what appeared to be C4 explosives, described the successes of Jordanian intelligence against extremists over the years and their close working relationship with the CIA.
He said Jordan had provided information for the killing of al-Qaida in Iraq chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 2006 as well as that of top Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh, who died in a car bomb explosion in Damascus in 2008.
"The Jordanian intelligence apparatus has a record which emboldens them to such behavior, but with Allah's permission, after this operation, they will never stand on their feet again," he said.
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