'A Huge Screw-Up': CIA Attacker May Have Been Well-Known Al Qaeda Blogger
Newsweek
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
The suicide bomber who penetrated a CIA base in Afghanistan last week and killed seven officers was not just any Al Qaeda double agent: he may have been a well-known Al Qaeda blogger who boasted of his “love of jihad and martyrdom” in a Taliban Web magazine just a few months ago.
The new details emerging Monday about the Al Qaeda background of the attacker have stunned former agency officials and intelligence experts and raised the possibility of a major security lapse that permitted the bomber access to the base.