Al-Qaeda Says CIA Attack Revenge for Drone Killings

KABUL : Al-Qaeda claimed that the suicide bombing at a US base in Afghanistan that killed eight CIA agents was a revenge for the deaths of militant leaders in US drone strikes in Pakistan; where as US media has revealed that Blackwater is working in Pakistan and Afghanistan for the assistance of CIA and 2 members of Blackwater were also killed in this attack.

A Jordanian identified as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi who was said to be a triple agent blew himself up at the base in Khost on December 30 in the deadliest attack against the CIA since 1983. The head of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan said the bomber wrote in his will that the attack was revenge for “our righteous martyrs” and named a number of top militants killed in US drone attacks. The attack also killed two contractors with XE, the controversial private security firm once known as Blackwater, US media reported. The two apparently were among eight CIA operative and a Jordanian intelligence officer killed in the December 30 attack, reportedly by a Jordanian double agent who blew himself up inside Forward Operating Base Chapman. Hakim Ullah Mehsud has confirmed the responsibility of this attack in his e mail message.