Al Qaeda has taken credit for the suicide attack that killed seven CIA operatives, including a station chief, and a Jordanian intelligence operative. In a statement released on the Internet, Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda’s leader in Afghanistan, said the attack was to “avenge” the leaders and “brothers” of al Qaeda and the Taliban killed in the U.S. airstrikes in Pakistan.
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