'The Al-Qaida 'Triple Agent' Who Infiltrated The CIA'

from npr.........

"On Dec. 30, 2009, seven CIA employees were killed by a suicide bomb at a fortified base in Afghanistan near the Pakistani border.

The bomber, a Jordanian doctor named Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, had gotten inside the highly secure base by duping both the CIA and the Jordanian General Intelligence Department, who thought he was a trusted informant.

But al-Balawi remained a loyal insurgent working for al-Qaida. After telling American and Jordanian officials that he had information that could help capture key Taliban and al-Qaida leaders — and going through several security checkpoints — al-Balawi set off the 30-pound bomb that was strapped to his body.

Al-Balawi's motives are the subject of Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick's new book, The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA, which explains how systemic errors within the CIA allowed al-Balawi to pull off the most lethal attack against the agency in more than 25 years"...............READ MORE