Posted on 01/09/2010 6:24:29 AM PST by tobyhill
The man believed to be the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees and contractors last month appears in a newly released video, in which he vows revenge for the killing of a Taliban leader.
The video shows Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, whom a former U.S. intelligence official identified as the suicide bomber. Al-Balawi's brother told CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson that the man in the video was his sibling.
In the tape, which aired Saturday on the Arabic satellite news channel Al-Jazeera, al-Balawi says his message is for the CIA and Jordanian intelligence.
The December 30 bombing at a U.S. base in Khost, in southeastern Afghanistan, killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian army captain.
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Osama bin Laden’s chief goal, was to bring the US into a war with Islam. He understands his own people's obligation and commitment to overcome the West and bring about a Caliphate. If we as a nation and a people, do not grasp the significance of our enemy's purpose, and why they fight on, our troubles will continue to mount, with no end in sight.
There was an elementary reason why armies of old salted the earth... self preservation; because it worked!
Freeper TomasUSMC’s tagline reads: “Fight like WW II, finish like WW II. Fight like Viet Nam, finish like Viet Nam.”
As painful as it is to repeat; he does have a point, and you do too!
Who has been honest, and is of great political stature, and has leveled with the American People, and given it to them STRAIGHT, in those exact same words, just as you have done, right to their faces and told them the brutal truth that our struggle may well last 200 to 300 years, long after we are all gone? Huckabee? Romney? McCain? Hillary? Pelosi? Reid? Panetta? Obama himself?
Worked for the Romans.
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