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Posted Monday, January 04, 2010 7:31 PM

'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.

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