Posted on 01/09/2010 8:00:44 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
ISLAMABAD (AP) - The Jordanian doctor who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan said in video clips broadcast posthumously Saturday that all jihadists must attack U.S. targets to avenge the death of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.
Footage showed Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi - whom the CIA had cultivated as an asset against al-Qaida - sitting with Mehsud's successor in an undisclosed location. It essentially confirmed the Pakistani Taliban's claim of responsibility for one of the worst attacks in CIA history, though a senior militant told The Associated Press that al-Qaida and Afghan insurgents played roles, too.
The development may lead the U.S. to further aid and push Pakistan to crack down on Taliban militants on its soil. The success of the attack also raises doubts about the effectiveness of the Pakistani military's ongoing ground operation against the Pakistani Taliban in its stronghold in the South Waziristan tribal region.
Speaking in Arabic in the video shown on the al-Jazeera network, al-Balawi noted the Pakistani Taliban had given shelter to "emigrants" - Muslim fighters from abroad. Mehsud, the group's longtime leader, was killed in August by a CIA missile strike.
"We will never forget the blood of our emir Baitullah Mehsud," said al-Balawi, who wore an Afghan hat and a camouflage jacket on a 1 1/2 minute video clip. "We will always demand revenge for him inside America and outside. It is an obligation of the emigrants who were welcomed by the emir."
A similar clip appeared on the Pakistani channel Aaj, though in it al-Balawi read haltingly from a piece of paper in English, a language Pakistanis are more familiar with than Arabic.
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H/T to the Drudge Report.
So—who can we get to take this message to the president? Maybe one of the gate crashers?
See, it’s our fault for killing Mehsud. If we had just not done that, those CIA guys would be alive. Our fault.
No one without a pretty high security clearance knows for certain, but I would expect this is the very worst single blow the CIA has ever suffered. That it comes under a President who transparently dislikes and distrusts them, and is inclined to use them as scapegoats, makes it sting all the more. I really feel for them.
If there is any silver lining to this dark cloud, it may serve as a reminder to everyone on the CIA team as to the true nature of the enemies that face Western civilization, both from without and within.
From the article:
Despite the suicide bombing's devastating blow to the human intelligence of the CIA, there's been a surge in missile strikes on Pakistan's tribal regions, where many of the top terror leaders, including Osama bin Laden, are believed to be hiding. There have been at least five such missile strikes in North Waziristan since the bombing in Khost.
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So that's good.
Remember Obama's statement about....We are at War with Al-Qaeda
Now what does he say?
Can we pleeeeeaze put a drone Hellfire in the 253 bomber`s undershorts and shoot him back to Yemen via airmail COD [Ca- booom on delivery]?
Exactly my thoughts. Whats he going to do when one of his “trusted associates” detonates in the White House.........?
I’ll be impressed when they get Osama-——and I think there are a couple of more hotbeds of terrorist training and activity that could use a bit of real shock and awe.
I thought we where already at war with Al-Qaeda. They guy has to be ringing hollow to even his most ardent supporters. What a jerk.
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