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Video purportedly of a Jordanian who blew up CIA agents in Afghanistan has shown him vowing revenge for Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud's death. | Video purportedly of a Jordanian who blew up CIA agents in Afghanistan has shown him vowing revenge for Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud's death. |
In a clip broadcast on al-Jazeera TV, a man said to be bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi says Mehsud must be avenged "inside and outside America". | In a clip broadcast on al-Jazeera TV, a man said to be bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi says Mehsud must be avenged "inside and outside America". |
The footage appears to show him next to Mehsud's successor, Hakimullah Mehsud, although he is not named in the video. | |
The clip's 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. | 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. |
'Blood of our leader' | |
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. | 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. | "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." | "What remains is to avenge him inside and outside America." |
The man in the clip says the Pakistani Taliban leader paid with his life for offering to shelter al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the BBC's Orla Guerin in Islamabad reports. | |
The IntelCenter, a US-based group monitoring extremist sites, said the video had been released by the Pakistani branch of the Taliban, the AFP news agency reports. | |
Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a US missile attack in the tribal region of South Waziristan, which borders Afghanistan, on 6 August last year. | |
Two months later, the Pakistani military launched a major offensive in the region. | |
More than 600 people have died in militant attacks in Pakistan since then, most of them believed to be in reprisal for the army's campaign against the Taliban. | |
Correspondents say Hakimullah Mehsud is thought to be in South Waziristan. |