ABU DUJANA AL-KHORASANI: FROM FORUM TO MARTYRDOM

Posted on December 30, 2011.

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Al-Fajr Media Center released a biography of CIA base bomber Humam al-Balawi (Abu Dujana al-Khorasan) written by Abu al-Hasan al-Wa’ili.

10 hours ago via web

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/12/lebanese_al_qaeda_op.php

“Lebanese al Qaeda operative eulogizes Jordanian killed in Afghanistan”
By BILL ROGGIO
December 26, 2011

PHOTO CAPTION: “Haythem bin Mohammed al Khayat, a Jordanian better known as Abu Kandahar al Zarqawi. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group.”

SNIPPET: “Before his death, Abu Kandahar was a member of a network of foreign al Qaeda operatives that included Abu Dujanah al Khurasani, the suicide bomber who carried out the attack at Combat Outpost Chapman in Khost province on Dec. 30, 2009 that killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian intelligence officer. Khurasani lulled the CIA officers into a false sense of security by claiming to have intelligence that would lead them to Ayman al Zawahiri, who at that time was al Qaeda’s second in command.

Other members of the network included Abu Abdulrahman al Qahtani, a veteran jihadist from Yemen; Ghazwan al Yemeni, a top operative in al Qaeda’s external operations network who aided in the attack at Combat Outpost Chapman; and Abu Dujanah al Sanaani, a Yemeni and an Internet jihadist who is known to have operated the Al Balagh Media Center and to have interviewed Siraj Haqqani. Qahtani, Ghazwan, and Sanaani were killed in fighting and Predator strikes along the Afghan-Pakistani border during the fall of 2010.”

NOTE The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2839542/posts

For CIA family, a deadly suicide bombing leads to painful divisions
Washington Post ^ | January 28, 2012 | Ian Shapira
Posted on January 29, 2012 12:49:58 AM PST by No One Special

The call from the Central Intelligence Agency came on a December afternoon in 2009 while Gary Anderson was skiing with his three children. It’s about your wife, the agency man said.

Standing inside Eagle Rock ski lodge in Pennsylvania, Anderson pleaded for details. The CIA official said simply: Where are you? We’ll meet you.

Anderson suspected dreadful news about Jennifer Matthews, his college sweetheart, his wife of 22 years and a CIA operative on assignment almost 7,000 miles away in Afghanistan. With several hours until the CIA meeting, Anderson and his three children — then 12, 9 and 6 — hit the slopes for one more hour. The father wanted to cling a little longer to normalcy, to a life between before and after.

Finally, the Fredericksburg family got into their silver minivan and headed to a nearby motel. There, in a sterile conference room, CIA officials told Anderson the news: His wife, one of the CIA’s top al-Qaeda experts, had just been killed in an explosion at a base in Khost province, in eastern Afghanistan. There was no mention of a double agent, no indication that six other CIA operatives had died in the deadliest attack on agency personnel in decades.

Anderson, who is commenting publicly on the loss of his wife for the first time, was so stunned that he couldn’t formulate questions, except: Are you sure she’s dead?

Then he summoned his children, who were waiting outside.

“I just said to them, ‘Your mom has died.’ The two oldest fell apart. They started crying,” he remembered. “One of them asked, ‘Is this really true?’ I just kind of hugged them. And then the craziness started after that.”

A Jordanian double agent’s suicide bombing of the CIA base received days of media coverage.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...

http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2012/08/al_qaeda_releases_bi.php

“Al Qaeda releases biography of slain senior leader”
By THOMAS JOSCELYN
August 21, 2012

SNIPPET: “The 21st, and latest, online edition of al Qaeda’s “Vanguards of Khorasan” magazine contains a biography of slain al Qaeda leader Atiyah Abd al Rahman. According to a translation provided by the SITE Intelligence Group, the biography is written by a jihadist known as Abu al Bara’a al Kuwaiti. Rahman was killed in a US drone strike in northern Pakistan in August 2011.”

SNIPPET: “Unsurprisingly, “Vanguards of Khorasan” does not mention that Rahman spent much of his terrorist career in Iran.”

SNIPPET: “While al Qaeda’s biography does not discuss these details, the group does celebrate Rahman’s role in the Dec. 30, 2009 attack on Combat Outpost Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan.

On that day, Humam Khalil al Balawi, a Jordanian doctor who the CIA and Jordanian intelligence believed could help locate Ayman al Zawahiri, detonated his suicide vest at the outpost, killing seven CIA officials and security guards as well as a Jordanian intelligence official.

Al Qaeda says that Rahman “engineered” al Balawi’s attack. Indeed, Rahman’s role in the operation has long been known.”

http://forum.internet-haganah.com/showthread.php?1045-Dig-the-hole-in-advance

“Dig the hole in advance”
(December 20, 2012)

SNIPPET: “Last night on Twitter the point was made that at least the State Department held people accountable for the sacking of the consulate in Benghazi, unlike the CIA after the suicide bombing at Khowst. I suggested that there was a lot of blame to go around in the latter instance, and since the individuals most responsible for Khowst were among the victims of the bombing, I was disinclined to blame the dead for trying too hard.”

SNIPPET: “We could argue over when the disaster at Khowst really began, but certainly one point of departure was the arrest of al Khorasani in Jordan. It was supposed to be a secret. However, he had a neighbor who was also a jihadi, and who saw him being taken away. The neighbor dutifully logged into the al Hesbah forum and posted a message that the respected brother Abu Dujanah al Khorasani had been captured. Goodness only knows what happened to the neighbor, because al Hesbah was a forum that had been created by the Agency in cooperation with the Saudis, and the thread about al Khorasani’s capture was deleted almost immediately.

Having witnessed the posting of the news and its deletion, I knew two things:

1) Al Khorasani had been captured, and
2) Al Hesbah was compromised”

In a new 2012 incident not related to the 2010 incident....

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2012/12/taliban_suicide_bomb_44.php

“Taliban suicide bomber attacks US base in Khost”
By BILL ROGGIO
December 26, 2012

SNIPPET: “The Taliban claimed credit for a suicide attack outside of a US base in eastern Afghanistan that is known to house CIA operatives who are hunting al Qaeda and other terrorist leaders across the border in Pakistan.

The Taliban suicide bomber detonated a van packed with explosives outside the main gate of Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost province as Afghan workers were entering the base. Two Afghan civilians and an Afghan soldier were killed and several more were wounded in the blast, the provincial police chief told Pajhwok Afghan News. The slain Afghan policeman stopped the vehicle before it could enter the base, and then the suicide bomber detonated the explosives, TOLONews reported.”

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