The Jordanian doctor who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan said in video clips broadcast posthumously Saturday that all militants must attack US targets to avenge the death of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud. A Pakistani TV channel Saturday showed what it said was the suicide bomber double agent who killed CIA agents in Afghanistan sitting with the Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, and reported he shared American and Jordanian state secrets with militants. “Jordanian and American intelligence had offered him millions of dollars in exchange for spying on the mujahideen. But he rejected wealth and joined the mujahideen,” said AAJ of Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal Al-Balawi. 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 AP that Al-Qaeda and Afghan insurgents played roles, too. The channel, identifying the bomber by his online name, Abu Dujana Al-Khorasani, quoted him as saying he “shared all secrets of Jordanian and American intelligence with his companions.” If the video is verified, it will point to massive intelligence failures by the US and Jordan. Speaking in Arabic in a similar clip shown on the Al-Jazeera network, Al-Balawi noted the Pakistani Taliban had given shelter to “emigrants” – 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.” The 32-year-old Al-Balawi was apparently a double agent – perhaps even a triple-agent – with links to Al-Qaeda, the CIA and Jordanian intelligence. He was invited inside the CIA facility in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province bearing a promise of information about Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda's second-in-command. Instead, he blew himself up in a Dec. 30 meeting, killing seven including the CIA's base chief. In the Arabic clip, Al-Balawi appeared to mock assertions that US or Jordanian intelligence had employed him. “The emigrant for the sake of God will not put his religion on the bargaining table and will not sell his religion even if they put the sun in his right hand and the moon in his left,” he said in Arabic, referring to a verse in the Qur'an. Al-Balawi ended by saying the Pakistani Taliban under the leadership of the new chief, Hakimullah Mehsud, would fight till victory. In Jordan, Al-Balawi's father confirmed that the man on the clip was his son. “He was very opposed to what was happening in Iraq, the occupation of Palestine and the killings of Muslims in Afghanistan,” a downbeat Khalil Abu Mulal Al-Balawi said. Statements by Afghan Taliban and Al-Qaeda leaders since the attack have confused the issue of who backed the plan, and it appears increasingly likely it was a joint operation. A Pakistani Taliban militant told AP that Al-Qaeda and the Haqqani network, a highly independent Afghan Taliban faction, also were involved in the suicide attack.
