Current and former intelligence officials said on Tuesday the CIA had launched a sweeping investigation into the unprecedented security breach, how the suspected suicide bomber, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, was recruited by Jordanian intelligence and whether any other agents working with the Americans may be moles.
Former U.S. intelligence officials said investigators were exploring a wide range of leads, including possible links between the bomber and the network of Afghan Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani, one of the CIA’s highest priority targets.
Balawi was recruited by Jordanian intelligence to try to infiltrate al Qaeda and the Taliban in large part because of his past association with Islamists, a former intelligence official said, citing Balawi’s previous involvement in a pro-al Qaeda websites and blogs.
I want to reiterate that any and all al Qaeda related problems can and should be blamed on our previous administration who for some reason decided that Afghanistan was taken care of and we could dump all of our resources into the completely threat-free Iraq.
Seriously. Just take this moment to think back on the 2003 area when everyone assured us that al Qaeda was “neutralized”, that Osama was no longer our concern, or McCain’s famous assertion that could just “muddle” our way through Afghanistan with no problem. Now it’s about eight years later, and they’ve gotten to the point where they can infiltrate the CIA.
