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ZARQA, Jordan — The suspected Jordanian double agent who killed eight people on a CIA base in Afghanistan wanted to die in a holy war, and wrote fiery Internet articles calling for jihad against the U.S. and Israel, family and friends said Tuesday.A counterterrorism official said 32-year-old Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi turned against his Jordanian intelligence recruiters who offered him to their CIA allies as someone who would help them track down Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahri. Instead al-Balawi struck the CIA base near the Pakistani border last week, killing seven CIA employees and his Jordanian recruiter, Ali bin Zaid, a relative of Jordan's King Abdullah II, said the official.Al-Balawi's family and friends said the Jordanian was a physician who practiced in a clinic at a Palestinian refugee camp near Zarqa, also the hometown of slain Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi....Suspected Jordanian Bomber of CIA Base Deceived Family
ZARQA, Jordan — The suspected Jordanian double agent who killed eight people on a CIA base in Afghanistan wanted to die in a holy war, and wrote fiery Internet articles calling for jihad against the U.S. and Israel, family and friends said Tuesday.A counterterrorism official said 32-year-old Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi turned against his Jordanian intelligence recruiters who offered him to their CIA allies as someone who would help them track down Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahri. Instead al-Balawi struck the CIA base near the Pakistani border last week, killing seven CIA employees and his Jordanian recruiter, Ali bin Zaid, a relative of Jordan's King Abdullah II, said the official.Al-Balawi's family and friends said the Jordanian was a physician who practiced in a clinic at a Palestinian refugee camp near Zarqa, also the hometown of slain Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi....
