What the records say
- When
- 30 Dec 2009
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 33.34° N, 69.95° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Camp Chapman attack.
Summary
Seven American CIA agents are killed by a suicide bomb attack in a US military base in Khost Province, Afghanistan. Two of the seven killed are contractors for Blackwater Worldwide. The CIA considers contractors to be officers.
Camp Chapman attack
2009 suicide bombing of a US Armed Forces base in Khost Province, Afghanistan
The Camp Chapman attack was a suicide attack by Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi against the Central Intelligence Agency facility inside Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan on December 30, 2009. One of the main tasks of the CIA personnel stationed at the base was to provide intelligence supporting drone attacks in Pakistan.
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