[The News (Pak) Top Stories] The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed on Friday that they used a turncoat CIA operative to carry out a suicide bombing that killed seven American CIA employees in Afghanistan as revenge for a top militant leader's death in a US missile strike.The announcement was nearly impossible to verify. It is highly unusual for the Pakistani Taliban to claim credit for an attack in Afghanistan. CIA spokesman George Little could not confirm the account.
The suicide bomber struck the CIA's operation at Camp Chapman in eastern Khost province on Wednesday. The base was used to direct and coordinate CIA operations and intelligence gathering in Khost.
Qari Hussain, a top militant commander, said militants had been searching for a way to damage the CIA's ability to launch missile strikes on the Pakistani side. Hussain said a "CIA agent" contacted Pakistani Taliban commanders, was trained and sent to Khost.
After the attack, Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said an Afghan National Army officer wearing a suicide vest had entered the base and blew himself up. There has been no independent confirmation of the bomber's identity.