Keep terrorists off our planes? The CIA can't even keep them off their base.

[tekisui]

CIA base bomber was ‘al-Qaida triple agent’

By Randa Habib Amman

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/kfausnaucwcw/rss2/#ixzz0bnHZf22C

A SUICIDE bomber who killed eight people at a CIA base in Afghanistan was an al-Qaida triple agent who duped Western intelligence services for months before turning on his handlers, jihadist websites boasted yesterday.

The Jordanian intelligence services, believing the bomber to be their double agent, brought him to eastern Afghanistan with the mission of finding al-Qaida number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the websites and Western intelligence agents cited by US media said.

But instead he blew himself up at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost province near the Pakistani border, killing seven CIA agents and his Jordanian handler, a top intelligence officer and member of the royal family.

The deaths of the seven agents marked the CIA’s worst single loss of life since the bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983.

Jordanian media gave no details of how Captain Ali bin Zeid died even though King Abdullah II, Queen Rania and virtually the whole royal family turned up at his funeral.

Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/kfausnaucwcw/rss2/#ixzz0bnHVn3JK

And there's this:

US spy effort in Afghanistan 'ignorant'- US report

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. military's intelligence chief in Afghanistan sharply criticized the work of U.S. spy agencies there on Monday, calling them ignorant and out of touch with the Afghan people.

In a report issued by the Center for New American Security think tank, Major General Michael Flynn, deputy chief of staff for intelligence in Afghanistan for the U.S. military and its NATO allies, offered a bleak assessment of the intelligence community's role in the 8-year-old war.

He described U.S. intelligence officials there as "ignorant of local economics and landowners, hazy about who the powerbrokers are and how they might be influenced ... and disengaged from people in the best position to find answers."

An operations officer was quoted in the report as calling the United States "clueless" because of a lack of needed intelligence about the country.
The report, which highlighted tensions between military and intelligence agencies, urged changes such as a focus on gathering more information on a wider range of issues at a grassroots level.

more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N04252368.htm

[MadMaddie]

1. This didn't develop overnight

they broke all kinds of protocal bringing the guy in without searching him etc.

[ORDagnabbit]

2. kinda hard to put the genie back in the bottle....sorry CIA. you screwed the pooch by creating this

[704wipes]

3. What is sequence of events between this and 8 children dying

in Afghanistan at the hands of Coalition?

Does anyone know which came first? Seems they happened close together.

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[tekisui]

7. The CIA really fucked up.

I am making the point that powdered underwear is really not the issue.

[stray cat]

5. We can't prevent people from molesting children or raping women either

but I don't think we should stop trying

[ORDagnabbit]

6. ahhh but what if the people in charge of stopping things are also in charge of starting things?

[TexasObserver]

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