CIA turncoat becomes a suicide bomber, kills seven of his own

The December 30 attack at the Chapman Forward Operation Base in Khost that left seven C.I.A. officials dead is a shocker. It surely has done the worst harm to the flagging morale of U.S. troops battling an enemy bent upon destroying the world with little regard to their own personal wellbeing.
Though the exact details of how an alleged C.I.A. turncoat inflicted such huge damage to the U.S. drone operations in the AfPak region since the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom more than eight years ago will remain buried in official files as classified documents, the multi-layered bureaucracy in the U.S. security establishment, notably the C.I.A. and F.B.I., may have been a major contributing factor.
This bureaucracy, dating back to the Cold War era, turns the special agents on the ground look like liars and those who deal with them feel cheated all the time, according to information gathered by this correspondent.

In spite of claiming that they adhere to the highest standards of integrity, the Feds are infamous for breaking their promises, using local informants as "French leather" in a region driven by the honor code, and dumping them in a heart beat.

This is not the first time the C.I.A. has experienced one of its own agents killing his superiors. One such incident happened here on U.S. soil, right in front of the C.I.A.'s Langley headquarters about 17 years ago. In that case also an Afghan was involved, albeit an Afghan [Afghan and Pashtun are synonymous] of Pakistan origin Aimal Kansi, 33. The Kansis are Pashtuns who have made a name for themselves in business and education in southern Pashtunistan.

Kansi had complained that the agency did not keep its promises made to his father and well-known politician, Abdullah Kansi. In much of the region tribal customs prevail where a promise made by word is sacrosanct and those who go back on it considered totally immoral, unethical and deserving death.

His uncle was also a C.I.A. agent, who was killed in action in Afghanistan. Though Kansi was a killer, his body was received as that of a martyr by tens of thousnads of mourners in his hometown of Quetta.

Pakistani public opinion remained divided over Kansi.