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CIA Base Suicide Attacks - Revenge for Drone Attacks in Pakistan

by Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke | January 7, 2010 at 03:59 am

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On December 30th, a triple agent, identified as a 32 year old doctor Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal Al-Balawi, entered Forward Observation Base (FOB) Chapman, near Khost, Afghanistan and succeeded in killing seven CIA operatives.

Al Quaeda has taken credit for the attack and hails the attack as "revenge for deaths of top militants" in US drone drone strikes. This was reported by the monitoring group SITE on Thursday.

The head for Al Quaeda in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abul al-Yazid said that the bomber wrote in his will that the attack was in revenge for our righteous martyrs.

Yazid vowed that the attacks would continue against Americans until they inflict upon them the greatest and most astonishing wounds.

Suicide bombers, car bombs and roadside Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) have been the favoured method for both Al Quaeda and the Taliban to attack NATO forces.

The CIA suicide bomber had earned the trust of CIA operatives and was invited to FOB Chapman for a meeting, with devastating results.

KABUL — Al-Qaeda hailed the suicide bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan that killed seven agents as "revenge" for the deaths of top militants in US drone strikes, the monitoring group SITE said Thursday.

A Jordanian doctor who was said to be a triple agent blew himself up at the base in Khost near the Pakistani border on December 30 in the deadliest attack against the CIA since 1983.

The head of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, said the bomber wrote in his will that the attack was revenge for "our righteous martyrs" and named several top militants killed in drone attacks in Pakistan, SITE reported.

Yazid described the bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi's mission as a "successful epic" to penetrate both American and Jordanian intelligence, according to the statement published by the US-based SITE Intelligence Group.

He vowed that Qaeda would continue to fight the Americans "until they inflict upon them the greatest and most astonishing deaths and wounds."

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Susan Marie Kovalinsky

at 04:23 on January 7th, 2010

How will they ever be able to trust anyone again? The desire for information opened the door to this. This is a frightening aspect of trying to get informants' help. oy vey :(

Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke

at 04:31 on January 7th, 2010

It will be difficult to trust again, especially in view of the knowledge of the enemy they are dealing with. The Taliban and Al Queada are hardened fighters. It requires determination and grit to defeat such an enemy.

Hugh Askew

at 04:25 on January 7th, 2010

In wars, the goal is to inflict more casualties and damage to your enemy than they inflict on you. Throughout history, the victor has generally been those that do that.

In Vietnam, the kill ratio of the US vs North Vietnam & Viet Cong was approximately 10-1. Yet the enemy decided they could live with that, held on, and prevailed - not because they were superior, but because they were willing to continue to fight despite their losses.

While there are few other similarities between Afghanistan and Southeast Asia, my gut says that absent a real understanding of the time and costs involved, America and it's allies, are looking at the same result in Central Asia.

Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke

at 04:36 on January 7th, 2010

Hugh, the role of the infantry is to close with and destroy the enemy. We (NATO) have embarked on a policy of Winning the Hearts and Minds. Last night I saw in interview with US troops in southern Afghanistan and I got the feeling that morale was not extremely high. There were many that commented that they were fighting with one hand tied behind their back. There was a plea to let them do their job.

I'm not sure if those were isolated cases and picked out by the media presenting the report to make their point, but if it is a general feeling, it's troubling.