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Jordanian Double Agent Murders 7 CIA, 1 Fellow Jordanian Spy
by Hana Levi Julian
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(IsraelNN.com) A Jordanian spy sent to Afghanistan to search for top Al Qaeda leaders apparently succeeded in his mission – but upon reaching his objective, he became a double agent and turned on his own people.
The double agent murdered a fellow Jordanian and seven CIA operatives in a suicide bombing last Wednesday at a meeting being held at the CIA’s Forward Operating Base Chapman in southeastern Afghanistan. He had not been searched when he entered the base; the American security guards trusted him, seeing him with the Jordanian operative with whom they were familiar, and knowing that he had important information to share with them.
They believed him to be an informant who would deliver the top Al Qaeda leaders into their hands. Instead, 36-year-old Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi donned an explosives belt prior to entering the base and detonated it at the