Spy vs Spy

by digby

Robert Mackay writes:

Mark Mazetti’s newest article on the suicide bombing that killed CIA agents in Afghanistan, “U.S. Saw a Path to Qaeda Chiefs Before Bombing, ” has this interesting tidbit worth considering:

“Mr. Balawi proved to be one of the oddest double agents in the history of espionage, choosing to kill his American contacts at their first meeting, rather than establish regular communication to glean what the C.I.A. did — and did not — know about Al Qaeda and then report back to the network’s leaders.”

That did make me think about what sort of threat AQ really is.

These guys…are idiots.  Bear with me a moment.

True.  but that raises another question. Why in the hell wouldn’t the CIA and Blackwater handlers did search him before his first meeting with his American contacts?

It sounds to me as if everyone needs a little remedial spycraft …

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