Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud (L) sits beside a man who is believed to be Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal Al-Balawi, the suicide bomber who killed CIA agents in Afghanistan, in this still image taken from video released January 9, 2010. A Pakistan television station showed on Saturday what it said was the suicide bomber double agent who killed CIA agents in Afghanistan sitting with the Pakistani Taliban leader, and reported he shared U.S. and Jordanian state secrets with militants. 
 
 ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The suicide bomber who killed CIA agents in Afghanistan had made a video calling on militants to avenge the death of the Pakistani Taliban leader by carrying out attacks in and outside the United States, al Jazeera said. 
 
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 A pilotless U.S. drone aircraft strike killed Pakistan Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud last year. 
 
 Al Jazeera reported on its website that the video was left as a message to the United States and its Arab ally Jordan by the bomber, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, in which he tells them: "We say that we will never forget the blood of our Emir Baitullah Mehsud, God's mercy on him." 
 
 Balawi blew himself up on December 30 inside Forward Operating Base Chapman, a well-fortified U.S. compound in Khost province in southeast Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan, killing seven CIA officers. 
 
 It was the second-most deadly attack in CIA history. 
 
 Al Jazeera quotes the former Jordanian doctor as saying it was the obligation of all of Mehsud's fighters "to retaliate for his death in the United States and outside the United States." 
 
 Pakistan television station AAJ showed what it said was a video of Balawi sitting with Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, and reported he shared U.S. and Jordanian state secrets with militants. 
 
 Hakimullah, Mehsud's successor, is leading a Taliban insurgency against Pakistan's pro-American government. 
 
 If the video is verified, it will point to big intelligence failures by the United States and Jordan, one of its most important Middle East allies. 
 
 It was not clear when or where the video was taken but the presence of Hakimullah Mehsud would suggest it was taken in Pakistan. The video is likely to focus more attention on Pakistan's efforts to wipe out militant groups along its northwest border with Afghanistan. 
 
 Pakistan, a front-line state in the U.S.-led war on terrorism, is likely to feel vindicated by the video which would appear to show the Pakistani Taliban were behind the attack on the CIA. They and several groups claimed responsibility for it. 
 
 Facing constant U.S. pressure, Pakistan has long argued that it should focus on fighting the Pakistani Taliban and cannot afford to open up new fronts against Afghan Taliban factions, whose members cross the border to attack Western forces in Afghanistan. 
 
 "BAD STEW" 
 
 U.S. investigators have yet to determine which group masterminded the bombing, and competing claims of responsibility have been made by Taliban and al Qaeda leaders. 
 
 "No determination has been made," said a senior U.S. official, who added that it was increasingly difficult to draw a distinction between the groups, which work closely together. 
 
 "They're like a bad stew -- once it's made, it's hard to separate the ingredients," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity. 
 
 AAJ, identifying the bomber by his online name, Abu Dujana al-Khorasani, quoted him as saying he "shared all secrets of Jordanian and American intelligence with his companions." 
 
 "Jordanian and American intelligence had offered him millions of dollars in exchange for spying on the mujahideen (holy warriors). But he rejected wealth and joined the mujahideen," AAJ said of Balawi. 
 
 By showing links between the Pakistani Taliban and a Jordanian double agent, the video is likely to raise more questions about global U.S. security measures. 
 
 "This statement (from Balawi) further enhances current concerns involving regional and affiliate arms of al-Qaeda extending their operations outside of their localized areas of operation and reaching into the continental US," said Ben Venzke, head of IntelCenter, which monitors jihadist propaganda. 
 
 Hakimullah Mehsud lost his main bases in his South Waziristan bastion in a Pakistani offensive launched in mid-October. 
 
 His whereabouts are not known but he is believed to have fled from South Waziristan to seek shelter with allies, possibly in North Waziristan. 
 
 CIA Director Leon Panetta defended the agency against accusations of a security blunder in Afghanistan in a column posted on the Washington Post website on Saturday. 
 
 Panetta said the bomber detonated his explosives just before security guards were about to search him, and it "was not a question of trusting a potential intelligence asset." 
 
 The Washington Post, citing U.S. officials briefed on the incident, said Balawi was treated as a "superstar asset" because he had impressed his CIA handlers with "photograph-type evidence" that he had been in the presence of al Qaeda's top leaders. 
 
 The CIA deaths in Afghanistan came on the heels of an attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner. U.S. President Barack Obama took responsibility on Thursday for security failures leading up to that incident and ordered reforms. 
 
 Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the airplane bombing attempt, one of the most serious U.S. security breaches and intelligence breakdowns since the September 11 attacks. 
 
 (Writing by Michael Georgy; additional reporting by Adam Entous in Washington; editing by Robert Birsel and Anthony Boadle) 

 Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi appeared next to the new leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsoud, and explained how the "emigrants" – Muslim jihadists from abroad – were given shelter by the Pakistani Taliban and so should exact revenge for US attacks. 
 
 In August, Baitullah Mehsoud, the supreme commander of the Pakistani Taliban was killed by a CIA missile strike. 
 
 "We will never forget the blood of our emir Baitullah Mehsoud, We will always demand revenge for him inside America and outside," he said, addressing the "enemies of God" and Jordanian intelligence. "It is an obligation of the emigrants who were welcomed by the emir." 
 
 The IntelCenter, a US-based group monitoring extremist sites, said the video was released by the Pakistani branch of the Taliban. 
 
 Jordanian intelligence officials have said they believed the devout 32-year-old doctor had been persuaded to support US efforts against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. They say al-Balawi was recruited to help capture or kill Ayman al-Zawahri, a doctor from Egypt who is bin Laden's right-hand man, according to a counterterrorism official based in the Middle East. 
 
 Al-Balawi blew himself up in a meeting with seven employees of the CIA in eastern Afghanistan. 
 
 In the video, al-Balawi appeared to mock reports that he had ever been in the employment of US or Jordanian intelligence. 
 
 "The emigrant for the sake of God will not put his religion on the bargaining table and will not sell his religion even if they put the sun in his right hand and the moon in his left," he said, making a reference to a verse in the Muslim holy book. 
 
 When asked by tribal leaders to cease spreading the new religion of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad replied that he would not, even if given the sun and moon, according to the Quranic verse. 
 
 Al-Balawi ended the video by saying the Taliban under the leadership of the new emir, Hakimullah, would continue fighting until victory.
– The suicide bomber who killed seven senior CIA officials last week said in a video released today that the attack was an act of revenge for the August killing of the leader of the Pakistani Taliban. Jordanian doctor Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi appears next to the new leader in the 90-second video, and is shown shooting a gun while sharing his message to his "enemies"— Jordanian intelligence and the CIA —saying, "We will never forget the blood of our emir Baitullah Mehsoud. We will always demand revenge for him inside America and outside. It is an obligation of the emigrants who were welcomed by the emir." The Telegraph notes that al-Balawi seems to mock the idea that he would actually work for the US: "The emigrant for the sake of God will not put his religion on the bargaining table and will not sell his religion even if they put the sun in his right hand and the moon in his left." Reuters adds that the Pakistani channel that ran the video quoted al-Balawi as saying he "shared all secrets of Jordanian and American intelligence with his companions."