(New York Times) Richard A. Oppel Jr., Mark Mazzetti and Souad Mekhennet - The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA officers and a Jordanian spy last week in Afghanistan was a double agent recruited by the Jordanian intelligence service who was taken onto the CIA base because the Americans hoped he might be able to deliver top members of al-Qaeda's network, according to Western government officials. The attack could jeopardize relations between the CIA and the Jordanian spy service which had vouched for the would-be informant. Al Jazeera identified the bomber as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi and said he was taken to Afghanistan to help track down al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri.
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