Posted on 01/01/2010 6:21:13 AM PST by La Lydia
KABUL--The suicide bomber who killed eight Americans, including seven CIA officers, this week might have been able to get through multiple layers of security at the U.S. compound aided by an Afghan informant with the agency, a Western official said Friday. If this is true, it suggests insurgents had turned the tables on the CIA and been able to place their own agents close to the facility the CIA used to cultivate informants.
On Wednesday, CIA officials had invited the attacker onto the base with the hopes of recruiting him as an informant. They used an Afghan intermediary to arrange the meeting. The attacker arrived, wearing an Afghan army uniform, officials said.
The assault shows a strategy the insurgency has increasingly employed here in recent months: using the uniforms and vehicles of the Afghan army and police to carry out attacks...
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Obama’s hand wringing and sobs to the CIA ring hollow in the most extreme. This is an agency he would get rid of if he could. I am hopeful the agency will work in the shadows and dark corners of the world and exact retribution on those responsible for this terrorism. Payback is a MF as we used to say in the Army.
This attack does not surprise me. If Americans knew who we let onto our bases they’d be amazed this doesn’t happen more often.
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Interestingly, another site suggest that Radical Muslim do not practice this. They state exactly what they think and what they plan.
It is the less conspicuous that actually practice this Al-Taqiyya.
I’ve seen enough spy movies to know you meet these folks on a one to one in a cave with all kinds of gadgets doing their jobs. Was it too cold out or something??
Fort Hood, the airline bomber getting multiple entry visas, any similarities???
I hope the CIA turns this loss into a future victory. Theirs is truly a dangerous line of work, mistakes and sloppy work will not only cost you a job, but also your life
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