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2010-01-04 Afghanistan
Jordanian double-agent killed CIA officers
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Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-04 13:34|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 the Jordanians believed that al-Balawi had been successfully reformed and brought over to the American and Jordanian side,

Do such reformations really work? It doesn't seem so.
Posted by JohnQC 2010-01-04 14:14||   2010-01-04 14:14|| Front Page Top

#2 This is scary, with these top agents all blown up in the same room, I fear the experience, contacts, and inside information may be lost

RIP. Thanks for your bravery and sacrifice!
Posted by Phith Dingle6292 2010-01-04 14:23||   2010-01-04 14:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Jordanian Case Officer also killed:

King, Queen receive body of Sharif Ali Bin Zeid

Amman, Jan 2 (Petra) -- His Majesty King Abdullah II, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah were at the Queen Alia International Airport on Saturday to receive the body of Captain Sharif Ali bin Zeid Al Aun who was killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday.

Sharif Ali fell as he performed his humanitarian duty with the Jordanian contingent of the U.

N peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan.

His body was flown home today on board a Royal Air Force plane.

Their Majesties and the Crown Prince expressed their heart-felt condolences to the martyr's family.

The King and the Crown Prince led a funeral held with full military honours as an armed forces band played sombre tunes and the casket, draped in the Jordanian flag, was carried by soldiers to the Royal Cemetery where it was laid to rest.

The King and the mourners recited verses from the holy Quran.

Also taking part in the funeral were other Royal Family members, the Prime Minister, the Royal Court Chief, the King's adviser for tribal affairs, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the directors of intelligence, public security, civil defense and gendarmerie as well as other senior officials.

His Majesty, Crown Prince Hussein and the other Royal Family members accepted condolences from the crowd of mourners.


Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-04 14:23||   2010-01-04 14:23|| Front Page Top

#4 It's a big hit to us, that's for sure. It's also a reminder that spy v spy is a dirty, dangerous business, and while you'd like to win them all, sometimes you lose one and it hurts like hell.
Posted by Steve White 2010-01-04 14:28||   2010-01-04 14:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Just cause it LOOKS like a Hollywood movie doesn't mean it is. People die.
Posted by tipover 2010-01-04 14:39||   2010-01-04 14:39|| Front Page Top

#6 It's hard to reconcile different accounts.
The man, a captain in the Jordanian intelligence service, was given full military honors at a ceremony that referred only to his "humanitarian work" in war-torn Afghanistan.
Posted by tipper 2010-01-04 14:57||   2010-01-04 14:57|| Front Page Top

#7 While many of the reformations and strange-bedfellow alliances fail, many work, the turning of the Sunni Awakening insurgents being a major success story. Some of the double agents work reliably for us giving the intelligence leading to successful Predator hits. The problem isn't continuing to make such attempts. The problem is not taking obvious precautions. If the fragmentary reports are true (the disaster being undeniable makes it appear true), remarkably poor tradecraft was exercised. How could al-Balawi not have been searched, especially given the method of assassinating Massoud? Why were so many officers interviewing him at once? Wanting to get credit for being in on a big case is human, but unprofessional. It's proper procedure to only expose the identities of a couple officers to an agent, let alone the risk of what transpired.
Posted by Odysseus 2010-01-04 19:22||   2010-01-04 19:22|| Front Page Top

#8 PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUMS > CIA ATTACKER WAS DRIVEN IN FROM PAKISTAN, SUICIDE BOMBER WAS A REGULAR CIA INFORMANT [high-value?] WHOM HAD BEEN ON [FOB Chapman, Khost]BASE MANY TIMES. CIA Casualties were US, Allied core Cadres responsible for covert intelligence gathering + paramilitary operations agz Al Qaeda + Taliban.

* SAME > SUICIDE BOMBING IN AFGHANISTAN DEVASTATES CRITICAL HUB FOR CIA ACTVITIES.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-01-04 19:46|| na  2010-01-04 19:46|| Front Page Top

#9  So apparently the hit was planned, so as to assemble as many CIA officers in the closest proximity to the killer. This necessitated the repeated leaking of useful information to build up a false sense of security on the US agents' part.
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