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Double agent, a Jordanian doctor, posed as Al Qaeda defector and took 7 CIA lives in Afghanistan

BY James Gordon Meek
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

Tuesday, January 5th 2010, 4:00 AM
Somalia's al-Shabaab terrorists, aligned with Al Qaeda, as shown on thugs' Web site Monday.

Photo is of their New Year's Day training camp graduates, who were urged to join fight vs. U.S. in Yemen.

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Somalia's al-Shabaab terrorists, aligned with Al Qaeda, as shown on thugs' Web site Monday.

Photo is of their New Year's Day training camp graduates, who were urged to join fight vs. U.S. in Yemen.

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WASHINGTON - The suicide bomber at a CIA post in Afghanistan last week was a double agent who posed as a prominent Al Qaeda defector to plot his diabolical double cross.

News reports Monday identified the bomber, who killed seven CIA officers and operatives, as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, a Jordanian doctor.

Balawi duped the CIA and his handler from Jordanian intelligence into believing he would help them nail Al Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, several reports said.

One of those killed when Balawi set off his bomb at the CIA's Forward Operating Base Chapman was his handler, a Jordanian intelligence officer named Sharif Ali Bin Zeid, who is a relative of King Abdullah.

The king met Bin Zeid's body when it arrived home over the weekend.

When Jordanian authorities arrested Balawi a year ago, he was a rock star among the jihadists.

He had grown famous as an online essayist on an Al Qaeda Web forum.

He came from Zarqa, the same Jordanian town as Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in a U.S. air strike in 2006, NBC reported.

Balawi resurfaced in an interview with another publication for jihadists in Afghanistan last September.

"Do people want us to carry bouquets of flowers?" he said in that interview.

"No, by Allah, we will carry weapons and we will wear military bandoleers and explosive devices."

Yet Balawi also somehow convinced the CIA and the Jordanian intelligence agent that he had turned against Al Qaeda.

He reportedly was cooperating withBin Zeid in recruiting otherAl Qaeda operatives as double agents.

Balawi was brought to the Chapman base near the town of Khost last Wednesday to meet with the CIA chief there and other agency operatives hunting Al Qaeda leaders.

Once inside, he set off his explosives-filled vest.

The CIA has vowed revenge against the masterminds of the suicide bombing, who were suspected to be linked to Afghan Taliban leader Jalaluddin Haqqani - Al Qaeda's most important ally.

Meanwhile, another Al Qaeda-aligned terror group, Somalia's al-Shabaab - which includes more than a dozen U.S. citizens in its ranks - used the Web yesterday to show off a parade of its training camp graduates, urging them to fight America in Yemen.

Reacting to the U.S. focus on Yemen after Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula tried to bomb a Detroit-bound jet on Christmas Day, a Shabaab leader said in a Friday "graduation" speech:

"Somali mujahedeen brothers are ready to cross over and back you up in your fight with enemies of Allah."

jmeek at nydailynews.com

Read more: nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/01...

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