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| Video footage purported to be of the Jordanian bomber who blew up CIA agents in Afghanistan has been broadcast on Pakistani and Arabic television. | Video footage purported to be of the Jordanian bomber who blew up CIA agents in Afghanistan has been broadcast on Pakistani and Arabic television. |
| Arabic channel al-Jazeera showed a clip of Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi vowing to avenge the death of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. | Arabic channel al-Jazeera showed a clip of Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi vowing to avenge the death of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. |
| A Pakistani TV station showed video of the purported bomber with the Taliban chief's successor, Hakimullah Mehsud. | A Pakistani TV station showed video of the purported bomber with the Taliban chief's successor, Hakimullah Mehsud. |
| The clips' authenticity is unconfirmed. Eight people died in the bomb attack. | The clips' authenticity is unconfirmed. Eight people died in the bomb attack. |
| Seven were US CIA agents and one was a Jordanian intelligence officer. | Seven were US CIA agents and one was a Jordanian intelligence officer. |
| The attack at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan's Khost province was the deadliest against US intelligence officials since the US embassy in Beirut was bombed in 1983. | |
| In the video clip shown on al-Jazeera, the man purported to be al-Balawi says he is sending a message to the "enemies of Islam", who he names as Jordan's intelligence and the CIA. | |
| "We say that we will never forget the blood of our leader, Baitullah Mehsud," he says. | |
| "What remains is to avenge him inside and outside America." | |
| Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a US missile attack in the tribal region of South Waziristan on 6 August last year. |