Saturday, 9 January 2010

Taliban-Pakistan claims Khost suicide bomber was one of its own

DEBKAfile Special Report

January 9, 2010, 2:06 PM (GMT+02:00)

Dead suicide bomber, double agent Khalil al-Balawi

Dead suicide bomber, double agent Khalil al-Balawi

A video clip released to al Jazeera Saturday, Jan. 10, shows Hammam Khalil al Balawai, the suicide bomber who killed eight people at a base in Khost, Afghanistan on Dec. 30, saying before the attack: "We will never forget the blood of our Emir Baitullah Mehsud" (the Pakistan Taliban leader killed by a US drone in South Waziristan in August last year).

He is also shown referring in the future tense to Ummar Farouk Abdulmutalleb, the Nigerian who tried to blow up a US airliner five days earlier on Dec. 25.
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