jan 12th, 2010
stratfor says all the right things: for instance how this was a sophisticated operation beyond the scope of a bunch of bearded insurgents, and thus how it has all the fingerprints of a national spy service all over it.
however, being close to the american official perspective, stratfor cannot quite bring itself to spell out the obvious name of the organization that did it: those three little letters -- ISI.
this is the elephant in the living room afflicting the americans -- fear of fingering the ISI.
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This is FREE intelligence for distribution. Forward this to your colleagues. | The Khost Attack and the Intelligence War Challenge By George Friedman and Scott Stewart | January 11, 2010 As Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi exited the vehicle that brought him onto Forward Operating Base (FOB) Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan, on Dec. 30, 2009, security guards noticed he was behaving strangely. They moved toward al-Balawi and screamed demands that he take his hand out of his pocket, but instead of complying with the officers' commands, al-Balawi detonated the suicide device he was wearing. The explosion killed al-Balawi, three security contractors, four CIA officers and the Jordanian General Intelligence Department (GID) officer who was al-Balawi's handler. The vehicle shielded several other CIA officers at the scene from the blast. The CIA officers killed included the chief of the base at Khost and an analyst from headquarters who reportedly was the agency's foremost expert on al Qaeda. The agency's second-ranking officer in Afghanistan was allegedly among the officers who survived. Al-Balawi was a Jordanian doctor from Zarqa (the hometown of deceased al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi). Under the alias Abu Dujanah al-Khurasani, he served as an administrator for Al-Hesbah, a popular Internet discussion forum for jihadists. Jordanian officers arrested him in 2007 because of his involvement with radical online forums, which is illegal in Jordan. The GID subsequently approached al-Balawi while he was in a Jordanian prison and recruited him to work as an intelligence asset. Read more » | Related Intelligence for STRATFOR Members  | | Agenda: With George Friedman
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