Terrorist co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami hero is Palestinian Humam Khalil al-Balawi al-Qaeda agent who carried out suicide bombing at CIA base Afghanistan.

Terrorist co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami hero is 'Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi' an al-Qaeda triple agent who carried out a deadly suicide bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan on December 30, 2009. Initially radicalized, Humam al-Balawi, a Palestinian doctor, was arrested by the Jordanian General Intelligence Department and seemingly flipped to act as a double agent to help track high-value targets like Al-Qaeda boss Ayman al-Zawahiri (this is prior to killing bin-Laden in 2011). Gaining the trust of both Jordanian and American intelligence by supplying selective information, he convinced handlers he had urgent intelligence on top leadership and was invited to the remote Khost base without undergoing standard physical security vetting or searches. 

Humam Khalil al-Balawi a Palestinian doctor and Al-Qagent detonated a suicide vest bomb at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan. The blast killed seven CIA personnel and Jordanian Captain Sharif Ali bin Zeid. al-Balawi entered the secure base without being searched because handlers believed he was a trusted informant, never trust a Muslim (Palestinian). Al-Balawi's family is of Palestinian origin, from a tribe in the Beersheba region. His brother said al-Balawi had been "changed" by the 2008–09 Israeli offensive in Gaza, and that he had been arrested by Jordanian authorities after volunteering with medical organizations to treat wounded Palestinians in Gaza.

Suicide bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan kills 9 on December 30, 2009 carried out by Humam al-Balawi a Palestinian doctor and Al-Qaeda agent: Jennifer Lynne Matthews, the station chief, 45, was tracking al-Qaeda before the September 11 attacks. She joined the CIA in 1989 and was involved with the agency's Bin Laden Issue Station. A U.S. official said Matthews was "one of the US government's top experts on al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups." Matthews had been chief of the base since September 2009. Besides Matthews, the CIA personnel killed included

• Scott Michael Roberson, 39, the CIA base security chief, was a former Atlanta undercover narcotics officer and worked with the U.N in Kosovo.
• Darren LaBonte, 35, a CIA case officer based in Amman, Jordan, was al-Balawi's handler. LaBonte enlisted in the U.S. Army after high school, serving several years in the elite 75th Ranger Regiment. After leaving the military, he became a police officer in the Libertyville Police Department in Illinois, then joined the United States Marshals Service, working in Chicago from 2003 to 2005. He then briefly served in the FBI on an elite anti-crime unit in New York City before joining the CIA in 2006.
• Elizabeth Hanson, 30, a CIA targeting analyst at Kabul Station. An economics major from Colby College. Hanson had joined the CIA in 2005 when she was 26 years old.
• Harold Brown, Jr., 37, a CIA case officer, was a former U.S. Army intelligence officer.
• Dane Clark Paresi, 46, a security contractor, was a retired U.S. Army Master Sergeant and Green Beret with 1st Special Forces Group. A Bronze Star recipient, he served in Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Kenya, Bosnia and Southeast Asia throughout his 27 year career.
• Jeremy Wise, 35, a security contractor, was a former U.S. Navy SEAL.

Wise and Paresi were security contractors working for Xe Services (formerly Blackwater and known as Academi since 2011), a private security company. The bodies of the CIA operatives were transferred to the U.S., and a private ceremony was held at Dover Air Force Base, which was attended by CIA director Leon Panetta.

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Quoting sources briefed on the investigation, ABC reported: “Hamam al-Hammami has indicated that his intent was to crash the aircraft in Israel.”  Netanyahu speculated to CBS News on Wednesday that the incident looked "like a Islamic suicide attempt," referring to witnesses who said the co-pilot had tried to jam the plane's equipment instead of stabilizing the aircraft. After passengers subdued the co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami, he shouted for someone to kill him, Israel PM Netanyahu told Fox News on Thursday. According to a CNN report, a LinkedIn profile bearing al-Hammami's name showed that he worked for Oman Air for about seven years before leaving the airline in February 2025. The profile stated that he later joined Royal Air Maroc in June 2025 and remained there until January 2026. He was born in the United Arab Emirates to an Omani father and Syrian mother and has spent several years of his life in the UAE, one of the sources added. Hamam al-Hammami—the co-pilot accused of a mid-air cockpit attack on a Flydubai flight—posted videos featuring al-Qaeda figures Ayman al-Zawahiri former top al-Qaeda leader and Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi an al-Qaeda loyalist tied to a 2009 suicide bombing.

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