A Reaper drone, as used by the CIA and American military in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Photograph: Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesKillings Rock Afghan Strategy -- Wall Street Journal
Bomber of CIA Base Was Being Recruited as Informant; Retaliation for U.S. Push.
WASHINGTON -- The attack that killed seven Central Intelligence Agency officers on a U.S. base in Afghanistan appears to stem from a strategy of calculated risk in running the spy agency's informant network, posing a sharp challenge as operations ramp up for the Obama troop surge.
U.S. intelligence and military officials said Friday that Wednesday's attacker had been recruited as a possible informant and brought onto Forward Operating Base Chapman, passing through at least one checkpoint. He detonated his charge shortly before being searched, blowing himself up, killing seven and wounding six.
It was a "high-level asset meeting gone bad," said one former intelligence official familiar with the incident.
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