Double Agents: A Photo Dossier

Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi
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Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi
A doctor recruited by Jordanian intelligence, al-Balawi blew himself up in an attack that killed seven CIA agents and his Jordanian handler, Sharif Ali bin Zeid, a first cousin of King Abdullah II. He lured the operatives to a meeting at an American forward operating base in Afghanistan after claiming that he had valuable intelligence that could point to the location of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy. It appears that al-Balawi misled agents and tested the tradecraft of three intelligence apparatuses

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