The Last Will and Testament of the Al Qaeda Bomber of the CIA

From the article at Times Online, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the Jordanian that blew himself up at the outpost in Khost killing seven CIA personnel left behind a will and testament stating that his actions was revenge for a "martyrs" killed by U.S. predator drones in Pakistan.

The excerpt:

According to the terror monitoring group SITE, the head of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, said the bomber wrote in his will that the attack was revenge for "our righteous martyrs" and named several top militants killed in drone attacks in Pakistan.
These included Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Taleban in Pakistan, who is blamed for a series of deadly attacks including the killing of the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in December 2007.

Now, I am skeptical that there is a testament left behind by this guy but that this is the "party line" from al Qaeda as there is always a reason for al Qaeda's attacks and it doesn't take a genius to understand that the CIA's pounding of key al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in NW Pakistan has royally pissed off al Qaeda. So much so that they concocted this very elaborate plot to send the message to the CIA: Stop the predator drone attacks in NW Pakistan.

We saw the suicide bombings in the early days of the Iraq War where al Qaeda used the same tactics with definite purpose behind them. The most memorable was the suicide bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra where al Qaeda bombed a Shia mosque, the most important one in Iraq, aimed at creating a furor amongst Iraqi shias in the south (Basra). So, as is the case in most al Qaeda attacks the act is supposed to create an effect.

So personally, I don't buy this "revenge" angle. Not that al Qaeda doesn't rejoice in the revenge thing but again in Iraq, al Qaeda in Iraq struck back at the Awakenings many times by suicide bombing Awakening leaders - the reason for that was to STOP the Awakening groups in their efforts to flush out and fight al Qaeda in Iraq.

While tragic as the attack on the Khost post was, one has to remind himself that the reason for it is because the CIA has really, really gotten to the al Qaeda leadership - the predator drone attacks not only pissed off al Qaeda to no end but has seriously affected their operating status in Pakistan.

CIA attack was 'in revenge for al-Qaeda deaths'

The suicide bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan was in revenge for the deaths of al-Qaeda militants killed in US drone attacks, the terror organisation claims.
The Jordanian triple agent Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi blew himself up at the base in Khost near the Pakistani border on December 30, killing seven agents and his Jordanian handler in the deadliest attack against the CIA since 1983.
According to the terror monitoring group SITE, the head of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, said the bomber wrote in his will that the attack was revenge for "our righteous martyrs" and named several top militants killed in drone attacks in Pakistan.
These included Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Taleban in Pakistan, who is blamed for a series of deadly attacks including the killing of the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in December 2007.

Mehsud was killed when a US missile struck his father-in-law's house on August 5 last year.
Abu Saleh al-Somali, described as part of al-Qaeda's core leadership, was also named. He was responsible for plotting attacks in Europe and the United States, and was killed in a drone strike in the North Waziristan area in December last year.
The al-Qaeda statement surfaced after another round of attacks by the remote-controlled aircraft that left 11 militants dead near Pakistan's Afghan border on Wednesday, the first strikes since the CIA bombing.
The area is a stronghold of Hafiz Gul Bahadur, who fought with the Taleban when US-led troops invaded Afghanistan and is reputed to control up to 2,000 fighters whom he sends across the border but who do not attack in Pakistan.
Earlier the mother and wife of al-Balawi denied he was an extremist, while his brother said the "angry" father-of-two, whose family came from Palestine, had been radicalised by Israeli attacks on Gaza.
Before the bombing he was regarded as one of the CIA's top assets.
Claiming she had not heard from him in 10 months, al-Balawi's mother, Shanara Fadel al-Balawi, said: "We hear the news about my son ... but I don't know if he is dead or not."
The 64-year-old added: "He prayed and read the Koran but was never an extremist. He never shared extremist views."