هجوم قاعدة العمليات المتقدمة تشاپمان كان هجوم انتحاري ضد قاعدة رئيسية لوكالة المخابرات المركزية الأمريكية في أفغانستان، في 30 ديسمبر 2009. القاعدة تقع بالقرب من مدينة خوست في شرق أفغانستان، في معقل لحركة طالبان.

Seven people employed by or affiliated with the CIA, including the chief of the base and the its security director, and a Jordanian intelligence officer were killed and six others seriously wounded in the attack.

Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack, and western intelligence officials identified the attacker as همام خليل أبوملال البلوي، 36، طبيب أردني وعميل مزدوج موالي للمجاهدين. The bombing was the most lethal attack against the CIA in more than 25 years, and a major setback for the agency's counterterrorism operations in the region.

	بوابة Espionage
	بوابة أفغانستان
	بوابة الحرب
	بوابة الإرهاب

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عميل مزدوج أردني

الخسائر

Eight people, among them four CIA officers, including the chief of the base, and three contracted security guards working for the spy agency, were killed and six others seriously wounded in the attack. The base's security chief, Arghawan, of Afghan nationality, as well as a Jordanian military intelligence officer, Al Shareef Ali bin Zeid, were killed. The deputy chief of the CIA's Kabul station traveled to the base for the meeting and was wounded in the attack, according to sources familiar with the incident.

خسائر غير الأمريكان

Among the dead was Al Shareef Ali bin Zeid, a senior officer of the Jordanian spy agency دائرة المخابرات العامة. Bin Zeid was a first cousin to King Abdullah II of Jordan and a grandnephew of King Abdullah I of Jordan. He was, according to Jordanian press reports, the intelligence handler of the attacker. Bin Zeid's wake was held in the Royal Palace. King Abdullah II and Queen Rania attended his funeral. His death offered a rare glimpse of a U.S.-Jordanian partnership that is rarely acknowledged publicly, yet seen by U.S. officials as highly important for their counterterrorism strategy.

The security director of the base, an Afghan named Arghawan, was also killed in the attack.

المقاولون/المرتزقة

According to a former intelligence official, two of the officers killed in the attack were contractors for بلاك‌واتر العالمية, a private security company formerly known as Blackwater. A CNN report stated that the CIA considered contractors to be officers. According to Associated Press, three contracted security guards were among the dead, while the Wall Street Journal reports that only one private security contractor has been killed.

خلفية

شبكة حقاني

The drone attacks carried out by the U.S. military in Pakistan rely on local informants, who can cross the border into Pakistan in a way CIA officers cannot. CIA officiers at the base were involved in the coordination, targeting and surveillance of drone strikes aimed at the Taliban. At the time of the attack, they were conducting an aggressive campaign against the Haqqani network, a radical group run by Jalaluddin Haqqani and his son, Sirajuddin Haqqani, and were aiming at the Tehrik-i-Taliban group in particular.

The Haqqani network, one of the CIA's most important assets during Operation Cyclone in the Soviet war in Afghanistan, operates on both sides of the porous border shared by Afghanistan and Pakistan and is believed to have close ties to al-Qaeda. Jalaluddin Haqqani is widely believed to maintain ties with Pakistan's security and intelligence establishment as well. Members of the Haqquani network have occasionally cooperated with the Pakistani Taliban in the past. "At times they send suicide attackers to our area, and we give them shelter and find targets for them," a former commander of the group said.

العلاقات الأمريكية الپاكستانية

قاعدة العمليات المتقدمة تشاپمان

Forward Operating Base Chapman is located at the site of a former Afghan army installation. It is situated in the vicinity of Camp Salerno, a large military base used by U.S. special operations forces. The base is named for Sergeant First Class Nathan Chapman, the first U.S. soldier killed by enemy fire during the Afghanistan war, in 2002. Chapman was killed while fighting alongside the CIA.

The CIA's base in Khost was set up at the beginning of the U.S.-led offensive against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in 2001, and began as an improvised center for operations. A military base at the beginning, it was later transformed into a CIA base, a U.S. official said. According to a U.S. military source, Forward Operating Base Chapman was also used as a base for the Khost Provincial Reconstruction Team, a military-led development group. According to a CNN report, this team left some time ago, however, the Wall Street Journal reports that the base still houses the team, as well as a small military contingent. In recent years, the base, one of the most secretive and highly guarded locations in Afghanistan, evolved into a major counterterrorism hub of the CIA's paramilitary Special Activities Division, used for joint operation with CIA, military special operations forces and Afghan allies, and had a housing compound for U.S. intelligence officers.

U.S. bases in Khost, in particular Camp Salerno, have frequently been targeted by insurgents. In most cases, however, suicide attackers do not succeed in getting past the main entrance of a base. According to U.S. officials, Forward Operating Base Chapman appears to have implemented less stringent security measures that other U.S. military bases, aiming at establishing trust with informants. Subjecting informants to mistrust and excessive suspicion would reduce the amount of information received from them.

ردود الأفعال والتحليل

البيت الأبيض والكونگرس

Obama stated that the intelligence agency had been "tested as never before", and that its agents had “served on the front lines in directly confronting the dangers of the 21st century.” "Your triumphs and even your names may be unknown to your fellow Americans, but your service is deeply appreciated," he wrote in a letter addressed to the agency's employees. Obama said that the dead will be remembered on the CIA's Memorial Wall in the lobby of the agency's headquarters. CIA members who have been killed in the execution of their work are eligible to an anonymous star on the agency's memorial wall. The chairs of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence issued statements of condolescence.

مجتمع المخابرات

In a message to CIA employees, CIA Director Leon Panetta said of the dead: "Those who fell yesterday were far from home and close to the enemy, doing the hard work that must be done to protect our country from terrorism. We owe them our deepest gratitude." Flags at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, flew at half-staff.

تعليقات الخبراء والإعلام

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طلعت مسعود, a Pakistani security analyst and former general, said that "the attack shows the Taliban are getting good cooperation from the locals".Richard A. Clarke, a former chief counter-terrorism advisor on the U.S. National Security Council, said that running double agents against the CIA represented "a huge increase in sophistication" for a non-nation state enemy such as the Haqqani network.

انظر أيضاً

• الحرب في أفغانستان (2001–الحاضر)
• أنشطة وكالة المخابرات المركزية في أفغانستان
• CIA transnational anti-terrorism activities
• قسم الأنشطة الخاصة
• خسائر التحالف في أفغانستان
• قاعدة عمليات متقدمة
• ناثان تشاپمان

الهامش

وصلات خارجية

• Message from U.S. President Barack Obama to the CIA workforce
• Statement by CIA Director Leon Panetta on CIA casualties in Afghanistan
• Statement attributed to Afghan Taliban leader Zabiullah Mujahid

• CIA Workers Killed in Afghanistan (ABC News)
• Pakistan Blast Sharpens Concerns on Taliban (PBS)

• CTC Sentinel: A Profile of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan