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| CIA Director: 7 CIA workers killed in Afghanistan |
| 2009-12-31 |
| KABUL (AP) - The Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for infiltrating a CIA post with a suicide bomber who set off an explosion that killed seven American intelligence staffers and wounded six others in an attack believed one of the worst in the agency's history. In Washington, CIA director Leon Panetta said the seven killed in Wednesday's attack "were far from home and close to the enemy, doing the hard work that must be done to protect our country from terrorism." The attack was a blow to the CIA, which has lost only four operatives in this country since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It also was the deadliest for Americans since eight soldiers were killed Oct. 3 when insurgents attacked a remote base, also in eastern Afghanistan. Among those killed was the chief of the CIA's operation at Camp Chapman in the Khost province of eastern Afghanistan, The Associated Press has learned. Former CIA officials said the base chief, a mother of three, would have directed and coordinated CIA operations and intelligence gathering in the province, a hotbed of Taliban and insurgent activity because of its proximity to Pakistan's lawless tribal region. The former officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Earlier, a U.S. official who was briefed on the blast said eight U.S. civilians and an Afghan were killed in the attack. Among those killed was Harold E. Brown Jr., of Fairfax, Va., died in the attack, according to his father, Harold E. Brown Sr. The elder Brown said Thursday that his 37-year-old son, who grew up in Bolton, Mass., served in the Army and worked for the State Department. He is survived by a wife and three children ages 12, 10 and 2. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #3 GTF out of there and assert that if any plots to harm Americans are uncovered, we will level with B-52s the village supporting such action. |
| Posted by: hammerhead 2009-12-31 21:22 |
| #2 Update from AP: Suicide bomber invited on base, was being cultivated as a source A former senior intelligence official says the man was being courted as an informant and that it was the first time he had been brought inside the camp. An experienced CIA debriefer came from Kabul for the meeting, suggesting that the purpose was to gain intelligence, the official said. A separate U.S. official suggested the bomber may have set off the explosives as he was about to be searched. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement that an Afghan National Army officer wearing a suicide vest entered the base and blew himself up inside the gym. A U.S. official briefed on the blast also said it took place in the gym. The incident occurred at a former military base on the edge of Khost city, the capital of Khost province which borders Pakistan and is a Taliban stronghold. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-12-31 17:51 |
| #1 If Americans weren't all PC and shit, CIA would just kidnap and kill a slew from the bomber's tribe. But most Americans just don't roll that way. Prolly a feature rather than a bug... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2009-12-31 14:35 |