Attack on CIA 'revenge' for drone killings: al-Qaeda

al-Qaeda hailed the suicide bombing that killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan as "revenge" for the deaths of top militants in US drone strikes, the monitoring group SITE said yesterday.
A Jordanian doctor who was said to be a triple agent blew himself up at the US military base in Khost near the Pakistani border on December 30 in the deadliest attack against the CIA since 1983.
The head of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, said the bomber wrote in his will that the attack was revenge for "our righteous martyrs" and named several top militants killed in drone attacks in Pakistan, SITE reported.
Yazid described the bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi's mission as a "successful epic" to penetrate both US and Jordanian intelligence, according to the statement published by the US-based SITE Intelligence Group.