The Virginia Pilot newspaper identifies one of the dead in the suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan as Jeremy Wise, an employee of Xe/Blackwater. Wise was killed with six other Americans identified as CIA officers or contractors.
http://hamptonroads.com/2010/01/exseal-killed-suicide-attack-was-xe-employee It appears from reports that this Xe contractor, along with two other guards working for the same private security firm, may have failed to pat down the bomber, resulting in the deaths of themselves and several CIA officers.
Here's the most complete account that I could find of what happened that identifies the roles of the victims.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Pak-tribesman-killed-7-CIA-agents-and-trust/articleshow/5407756.cmsIntelligence circles are now slowly piecing together what really happened in Forward Operating Base Chapman near the Pakistan border last Wednesday when a Taliban suicide bomber detonated a suicide vest killing eight people, including an Afghan security director and an American perimeter security guard who had escorted him inside – unchecked, unscreened, and unfrisked.
According to intelligence accounts, the suicide bomber was a previously trusted Pakistani informant of the Waziri tribe who was often picked up from a border crossing by a trusted Afghan security director named Arghawan and driven to the base. Because he was a familiar figure brought in by a known person (some reports said he had visited the base multiple times), screening him was not on anyone’s radar particularly since he had been ‘won’ over by trusting him and he had previously delivered valuable information enabling US agencies to conduct accurate drone strikes, which was the principal mandate of FOB Chapman.
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Although, the US government has declined to release the names of the killed, the families of the victims have been grieving publicly, as a result of which some of the names have been disclosed in local media.
Among the victims was Harold Brown, a Washington DC area resident who was father of three children, and whose mother believed he was a state department employee even as worked undercover in the front trenches of a nasty war. Another operative was an Ohio native named Scott Roberson who was expecting to become a father in February. A third victim was a former Navy Seal Jeremy Wise who was working as a security contractor.
The name of the female base chief, who was mother of three children, was not disclosed. At least five of the operatives who were on the rolls of the CIA will be memorialized with a star on the wall of the CIA headquarters in Langley shortly.
NOTE: In point of fact, the bomber was actually not a Pakistani, but a Jordanian doctor with Jihadist ties, recruited through Jordanian Intelligence, who is now described by U.S. intelligence as an al-Qaeda double agent.
The fact that guards admitted the informant without patting him for weapons or explosives has been confirmed in other reports, including a Military Times story that states that three Xe guards were among the casualties, none of whom apparently thought to search the informant before letting him into a room crowded with CIA intelligence officers flown especially for the occasion:
http://www.militarytimes.com/news/2010/01/ap_afghanistan_cia_attack_010510/A second former U.S. intelligence official identified the dead as four CIA officers and three contracted security guards with the American spy agency and a Jordanian intelligence officer, Ali bin Zaid. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the incident.
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Al-Balawi was arrested more than a year ago by Jordanian intelligence, NBC News reported. He was invited to Camp Chapman because he was offering urgent information to track down Ayman al-Zawahri, bin Laden’s right-hand man
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