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Afghanistan
Bombers wife proud husband killed CIA agents
2010-01-08
[Al Arabiya Latest] The wife of a double agent who killed seven CIA officers in a suicide attack in Afghanistan said on Thursday her husband regarded the United States as an enemy and she was proud of his mission.

Defne Bayrak, the Turkish wife of Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, said she doubted he was working for the CIA.

"I am proud of my husband. He has carried out a very important mission in such a war," Bayrak, who now lives in Istanbul, told reporters.

"I think it's impossible that he was an American agent. He was too adversary to work for America. He only could have used America and Jordan to reach his goals."

Bayrak, a journalist who has written books including one entitled "Osama bin Laden: Che Guevara of the East", earlier told the newspaper Sabah she believed her husband was in Afghanistan to pursue his medical studies and she was shocked at news of his death.
Posted by:Fred

#9  WHOA! Was that Hillary in '96?
Posted by: Frank G   2010-01-08 18:38  

#8  
Bombers wife proud husband killed CIA agents




Now my husband gets his virgins, and doesn't have me anymore...Yes, I am proud, but...
Posted by: BigEd   2010-01-08 17:00  

#7  Among all his other shortcomings, GW also lost me when he didn't issue an EO once-again authorizing assassinations.

Sadly, this war will have to wait another 3 years...
Posted by: logi_cal   2010-01-08 09:30  

#6  'moose, that would require a competent CIA, capable and interested in defending American interests abroad. Sadly, I think Ms. Bayrak will be safe for quite some time.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2010-01-08 09:09  

#5  Wow - you have something against packs of wild dogs or something?

Tho I agree she needs to be wrung for what she knows - and not at camp gitmo - perhaps one of those super-secret camps we're supposed to have.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2010-01-08 09:07  

#4  If the CIA is on the ball, she will have just signed her own death warrant. In this case, it would seem appropriate if she were to slip, hit her head, be unable to move, yet fully conscious, as she was eaten by a pack of dogs.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-01-08 09:01  

#3  How times have changed in Turkey. A decade ago Ms Bayrak would have been ashamed at her poor choice of husbands. How many other wives of Mr. Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi will rear up on their hind legs to claim their share of the fifteen minutes of fame, I wonder? And what will the CIA discover from their phone records?
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-01-08 06:16  

#2  Bayrak, who now lives in Istanbul, told reporters.

Very interesting. Andrea, make sure this article is cabled to Istanbul and have them look into the point of origination of all Ms. Bayrak's recent and future electronic bank transfers please. We're all about looking after widows and orphans you know.
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-01-08 02:42  

#1  "Doubted he was working for the CIA" > thus of course, he weirdly and mysteriously, but only PCorrectly coincidentally deniably, worked alongside the CIA's VALERIE PLAME at PENN STATE...

*** cough *** cough ***...

But I digress ...

Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-01-08 00:27  

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