'No proof' Balawi was CIA suicide bomber: Jordan

A suicide bomber on a bicycle killed nine people outside the defence ministry in central Kabul on Saturday during a visit to the Afghan capital by new US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

The suicide attacker who killed eight people in an attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan was a Jordanian who had been recruited by Jordanian intelligence as a double agent, US media said.NBC News cited western intelligence officials as saying the Jordanian, identified in the report as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, had been brought to Afghanistan with the specific mission of finding and meeting Al-Qaeda number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

The suicide attacker who killed eight people in an attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan was a Jordanian who had been recruited by Jordanian intelligence as a double agent, US media said Monday.NBC News cited western intelligence officials as saying the Jordanian, identified in the report as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, had been brought to Afghanistan with the specific mission of finding and meeting Al-Qaeda number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Jordan tried to warn off the CIA about an informer who later attacked the spy agency's base in Afghanistan last year, killing seven Americans, a US intelligence official said Tuesday.Concerns about working with the informer had to be "weighed against the information he had already provided, and his potential to lead us to the most senior figures in Al-Qaeda," the intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.

The CIA ignored Jordan's warnings about an informer who later attacked a remote Afghanistan base last year, killing seven Americans, a US intelligence official said.Concerns about working with the informer had to be "weighed against the information he had already provided, and his potential to lead us to the most senior figures in Al-Qaeda," the intelligence official told AFP on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Jordan tried to warn the CIA about an informer who later attacked the spy agency's base in Afghanistan last year, killing seven Americans, a US intelligence official said.Concerns about working with the informer had to be "weighed against the information he had already provided, and his potential to lead us to the most senior figures in Al-Qaeda," the intelligence official told AFP on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.

A suicide bomber who killed eight people at a CIA base in Afghanistan was an Al-Qaeda triple agent who duped Western intelligence services for months before turning on his handlers, jihadist websites boasted on Tuesday.The Jordanian intelligence services had brought the bomber to eastern Afghanistan with the mission of finding Al-Qaeda number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, believing he was their double agent, jihadist websites and Western intelligence agents cited by US media said.

Jordanian officials raised concerns with the CIA about an informer who later attacked the spy agency's base in Afghanistan last year, killing seven Americans, a US official has said."Those concerns were weighed against the information he had already provided, and his potential to lead us to the most senior figures in Al-Qaeda," the US intelligence official told AFP Tuesday, after an internal review of the incident concluded the CIA failed to fully vet the assailant.