1:45pm UK, Saturday January 09, 2010

Mark Langford, Sky News Online

The double agent who killed seven CIA agents in a suicide attack in Afghanistan has said in a video message from beyond the grave that he passed US intelligence to the Taliban.

Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al Balawi appeared in a video urging all emigrant fighters – Muslim jihadists from abroad – to target the US in revenge for American attacks.

He highlighted the death of Pakistani Taliban supreme commander Baitullah Mehsud, killed by a CIA missile strike in August.

In the video, al Balawi appeared to mock reports he had ever worked for Jordanian or US intelligence.

Pakistani TV station AAJ, which ran the footage, quoted him as saying he “shared all secrets of Jordanian and American intelligence with his companions”.

It showed Al Balawi, who killed the CIA staff when he blew himself up in a meeting, sitting alongside the new leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud.

“We will never forget the blood of our emir Baitullah Mehsud. We will always demand revenge for him inside America and outside,” he said, addressing the “enemies of God” and Jordanian intelligence.

“It is an obligation of the emigrants who were welcomed by the emir.”

Al Balawi, a 32-year-old Jordanian doctor, was recruited by Jordanian intelligence after they believed he had been ‘turned’ to support US efforts against al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

It is thought al Balawi was recruited to help capture or kill Ayman al Zawahri, an Egyptian doctor who is Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man, but was instead working for al Qaeda.

Al Balawi, wearing traditional Afghan dress, spoke in Arabic during the minute-and-a-half broadcast.

Several extremist Islamic websites linked to the video.

He ended the clip by saying the Taliban under the leadership of Hakimullah would continue fighting until victory.