Video of a Jordanian said to have blown up seven CIA agents in Afghanistan has shown him vowing revenge for Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud’s death. In a clip broadcast on al-Jazeera TV, suicide bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi says Mehsud must be avenged “inside and outside America”. The footage appears to show him next to Mehsud’s successor, Hakimullah Mehsud, although he is not named in the video. Eight people – seven CIA agents and one Jordanian officer – died in the attack. 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. Humam Balawi is said to have been a Jordanian doctor turned double agent, having originally been recruited by the Jordanians to spy on al-Qaeda. His father, Khalil Balawi, said that the man who appeared on the video was definitely his son. Speaking in Jordan, he blamed “American oppression against the Muslim world” for his son’s act ‘Blood of our leader’ In the video clip shown on al-Jazeera, Humam Balawi says he is sending a message to the “enemies of Islam”, who he names as Jordan’s intelligence services and the CIA. “We say that we will never forget the blood of our leader, Baitullah Mehsud,” he says. “What remains is to avenge him inside and outside America.” The Jordanian, speaking in Arabic, says the Pakistani Taliban leader paid with his life for offering to shelter al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden …
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