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March 1, 2010
Special Dispatch No.2831
In New Video, CIA Khost Bomber Humam Al-Balawi Recounts His Life as a Double Agent

Al-Qaeda's media wing Al-Sahab has released a 43-minute video featuring an interview with Humam Al-Balawi, the suicide bomber who carried out an attack against CIA and Jordanian intelligence personnel in Khost, Afghanistan, on December 30, 2009. In the video, Al-Balawi, also known as Abu Dujana Al-Khurasani, recounts how he tricked Jordanian intelligence into bringing him to Waziristan and how he set up the attack.

In addition to the Arabic version of the video, Al-Sahab also released a version dubbed into English; one of the voices in the English version appears to be that of Adam Gadahn, aka 'Azzam Al-Amriki.



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