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'Afghanistan CIA bomber' shown vowing revenge

January 10, 2010 00:00:00


Video purportedly of a Jordanian who blew up CIA agents in Afghanistan has shown him vowing revenge for Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud's death, reports BBC.
In a clip broadcast on al-Jazeera TV, a man said to be bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi says Mehsud must be avenged "inside and outside America".
A Pakistani TV station showed video of the purported bomber with the Taliban chief's successor, Hakimullah Mehsud.
The attack at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan's Khost province was the deadliest against US intelligence officials since the US embassy in Beirut was bombed in 1983.
In the video clip shown on al-Jazeera, the man purported to be al-Balawi says he is sending a message to the "enemies of Islam", who he names as Jordan's intelligence and the CIA.
Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a US missile attack in the tribal region of South Waziristan on 6 August last year.

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