A plan was developed for al-Bawali to infiltrate al-Qaeda in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in Pakistan, along the Afghan border. After this episode, the GID and CIA believed they had turned al-Balawi into a double agent. Al-Balawi was told that if he cooperated, his slate would be wiped clean and his family left alone. During al-Balawi's questioning, Jordanian intelligence officials threatened to have him jailed and end his medical career, and they hinted they could cause problems for his family. : 38 Jarrett Brachman, the former director of research at West Point's Combating Terrorism Center, said 'since at least 2007, become one of the most prominent al-Qaida jihadist pundits.' Īl-Balawi was arrested by Jordanian intelligence in January 2009 and held for three days.

He had tried to rehabilitate the image of al-Zarqawi in Jordan after the 2005 Amman bombings. Al-Balawi became an administrator and a well-known contributor for al-Hesbah, an online jihadist forum.

Īl-Balawi had a history of supporting violent Islamist causes online under the pseudonym Abu Dujana al-Khurasani. In fact, al-Balawi was not a double but a triple agent, leading an extraordinary life on the frontline of America’s war against militant Islam. Attacker Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi The incident suggested that al-Qaeda might not be as weakened as previously thought. It was the second largest single-day loss in the CIA's history, after the 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, which killed eight CIA officers. The attack was a major setback for the intelligence agency's operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Īfter the attack, the base was secured and 150 mostly Afghan workers were detained and held incommunicado for three days. At least 13 intelligence officers were within 50 feet (20 m) of al-Balawi when the bomb went off. Some of those killed had already approached the bomber to search him, whereas others killed were standing some distance away. Six other CIA personnel were seriously wounded in the attack, including the deputy chief of Kabul station. One was a Jordanian intelligence officer and another was the Afghan driver. Seven were CIA personnel: five officers, including the chief of the base, and two contractors. Īl-Balawi and nine other people were killed by the blast. : 197 Al-Balawi got out of the vehicle and detonated the explosives hidden in his suicide vest. : 170–1 Sixteen people were waiting for the car near a building set up to debrief al-Balawi. The car was waved through three security checkpoints without stopping before arriving at its destination well within the base. : 166–7 Arghawan drove al-Balawi to Camp Chapman, arriving around 4:30 p.m. On December 30, 2009, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi was picked up by Arghawan, an Afghan who was the chief of external security at Camp Chapman, at the border between Miranshah, Pakistan, and Khost, Afghanistan. 3.2 Investigations and security measures.Al-Qaeda and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility, saying they helped al-Balawi with the attack. Instead, al-Balawi used this trust to gain access to the CIA base in Afghanistan unsearched and perpetrate the attack. The GID and the CIA thought they had turned al-Balawi to penetrate al-Qaeda in the Pakistani tribal areas to provide intelligence for high-level targets. The bombing was the most lethal attack against the CIA in more than 25 years.Īl-Balawi was a Jordanian doctor and jihadist website writer who was detained and interrogated over three days by the Jordanian intelligence service, the General Intelligence Directorate (GID). Six other American CIA officers were wounded. Seven American CIA officers and contractors, an officer of Jordan's intelligence service, and an Afghan working for the CIA were killed when al-Balawi detonated a bomb sewn into a vest he was wearing. One of the main tasks of the CIA personnel stationed at the base was to provide intelligence supporting drone attacks in Pakistan. The Camp Chapman attack was a suicide attack by Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi against the Central Intelligence Agency facility inside Forward Operating Base Chapman on December 30, 2009. India–Pakistan border skirmishes (2014–2015).Pakistan–United States skirmishes (2008–2012).Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes (since 2003).American airstrikes Damadola Chenagai Dande Darpakhel Miramshah Baghar China Laghman Shrawangai Nazarkhel Datta Khel

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