Afghanistan, January 01: The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in Afghanistan on Wednesday was invited onto the base, a former senior CIA official confirmed to Fox News.
The agency unit, at Forward Operating Base Chapman in the south eastern province of Khost was attempting to collect intelligence from the informant, who was wearing an explosive-laden vest, when he blew himself up.
The base chief, a mother of three, was among the seven agency employees confirmed dead by CIA Director Leon E. Panetta Thursday. Six more were injured.
The CIA said neither the names of those killed nor the details of their work would be released at this time “due to the sensitivity of their mission and other ongoing operations.”
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, according to various media reports.
—Agencies