Posted on 01/06/2010 9:10:50 AM PST by Steelfish
EXCLUSIVE: CIA Suicide Bomber Photo First photo of Humam al-Balawi, Double Agent Who Killed Seven CIA Operatives in Afghanistan [Pic in URL]
By BRIAN ROSS and NASSER ATTA Jan. 6, 2010
ABC News has obtained an exclusive photo of suicide bomber Humam Muhammed al-Balawi, the Jordanian double agent who killed seven CIA operatives and his Jordanian handler in Afghanistan on December 30.
An exclusive photo obtained by ABC News shows Humam Khalil Muhammed al Balawi, identified as suicide bomber who killed seven C.I.A. agents and his handler at Forward Operating Base Chapman near Khost city, Afghanistan, on Dec. 30, 2009.
(ABC News)Al-Balawi, a 32-year-old Jordanian doctor, had convinced the Americans that his jihadist postings on the web were only part of his cover identity. He lured 13 CIA operatives and his handler to a meeting at Camp Chapman, an American forward operating base in Afghanistan, by saying he had just met with al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri and had information to share.
The photo comes from a Jordanian identification card, seen here. Al Balawi was born in Kuwait in 1977, raised in Jordan and attended medical school in Turkey. He had been arrested by Jordan's intelligence agency, the General Intelligence Directorate, more than a year ago. Believing they had flipped al Balawi and made him a double agent, the Jordanians released him from prison and sent him to Afghanistan to penetrate al Qaeda by pretending to be an aspiring foreign jihadi.
In his early life al-Balawi lived in a refugee camp near Zarqa, Jordan, the same town that spawned infamous insurgent leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi. Al-Balawi studied medicine in Turkey at the expense of the Jordanian government and was a straight-A student, sources said.
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Well crud, it didn’t post right.
Amish.
Thanks for posting the pic!
Thanks for the photo. He’s a Ph.D. alright, a doctor in the philosophy of Islam.
Dog
That is just wrong, funny though
to be fair isn’t kasey lebanonese?
So is Doug Flutie.
Kamal Amin “Casey” Kasem born April 27, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan to Lebanese Druze parents who worked as grocers.
The bastard killed the son of a doctor in our area who was in this CIA group. He was only 35 years old.
Thanks
I love Kasey Kaseum. Grew up listening to him
I did think your post was funny.
Jeremy J. Wise
Former local resident and West Side Christian School student Jeremy Jason Wise, 35, was among those killed during a suicide bombing attack on a CIA base in southeastern Afghanistan last week.
A Jeremy Wise Memorial page has been established on the social networking site Facebook, with many former West Side students and friends of the family leaving comments.
US kills 11 in latest North Waziristan strike By Bill RoggioJanuary 6, 2010 8:05 AM Eleven terrorists, including two "foreigners," were killed in the latest US airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Unmanned US aircraft struck a Taliban training camp in the Datta Khel region in North Waziristan twice today. The second strike hit the Taliban as they attempted to recover bodies from the first strike. "Two foreigners died in the initial attack," a senior Pakistani security official told AFP. "Five militants were killed in the previous attack and six in this attack." The identity of the foreigners, a term used to describe Arab members of al Qaeda, has not been disclosed. No senior al Qaeda or Taliban leaders have been reported killed. The Taliban were using a mud-brick fort in the village of Sanzali to carry out training. The fort was run by North Waziristan Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadar. The Pakistani military signed another peace agreement with Bahadar this year. Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/01/us_kills_11_in_lates.php#ixzz0brVSMeBq
He’s just rebelling against his poverty and lack of education....oh wait.
It’s Mr. Bean!
Bump.
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