As the U.S. stepped up drone attacks on suspected Taliban and al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the indigenous Islamist forces responded with their own low-tech version of a drone: an Al Qaeda triple agent who talked his way into the CIA command post that comes up with targets for the drones.
What they’re saying in Europe about the new face of the Af-Pak war.
Starring the Turkish widow of the CIA bomber helps–Zaman (Turkey)
“… from a tactical perspective al-Balawi deceived the CIA, the Jordanian intelligence agency and the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) at the same time. It is unthinkable that MIT or police intelligence were not aware of the communication between al-Balawi and Bayrak. Bayrak reveals that her husband always said that he was planning to come and build his career in Turkey. Perhaps al-Balawi put emphasis on his plan to come to Turkey to distract the CIA and Jordanian intelligence”
