Ballawi's reports were "restricted handling," aka.seen in Washington only by the CIA director & his top lieutenants!

Via Friday-Lunch-Club

NPR/ here

"... The former intelligence official, who has been briefed on the attack, tells NPR that the informant had previously revealed enough information about al-Qaida operatives to enable the CIA to kill them with missile strikes from unmanned aircraft ...

"He was feeding us low-level operatives and we were whacking them," the source said. He agreed to discuss the attack on the condition of anonymity.

The suicide bomber, identified as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, had met previously with CIA agents, according to the former intelligence official, but never inside the CIA base, known as Forward Operating Base Chapman, outside Khost...."

Posted by G, Z, or B at 2:29 AM