...Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi, the 32-year-old Jordanian of Palestinian heritage...a doctor, was not...tending to sick and injured Palestinians in Gaza but was at the center of a complex espionage operation that backfired to deadly effect.
Western government officials say Mr. Balawi was recruited by Jordanian intelligence agents and taken to Afghanistan to infiltrate Al Qaeda by posing as a foreign jihadi. There he attended a meeting with the C.I.A. and blew himself up, killing seven Americans and his Jordanian supervisor, a distant cousin of King Abdullah II.
Who's fault?
But of course:-
...the brother who answered the door at the family home declined to give his first name...He described Mr. Balawi as a “very good brother” and a “brilliant doctor,” saying that the family knew nothing of Mr. Balawi’s writings under a pseudonym on jihadi Web sites. He said, however, that his brother had been “changed” by last year’s three-week-long Israeli offensive in Gaza, which killed about 1,300 Palestinians.
The brother said that Mr. Balawi was arrested by the Jordanian authorities after volunteering with medical organizations to treat wounded Palestinians in Gaza. The family is itself of Palestinian origin, from a tribe in the Beersheba region.
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