Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi

Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi
Hakimullah Mehsud and Humam al-Balawi
Born	Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi (1977-12-25)25 December 1977 Kuwait
Died	30 December 2009(2009-12-30) (aged 32) Khost, Afghanistan

Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi (25 December 1977 – 30 December 2009) was a Jordanian doctor and a triple agent suicide bomber loyal to Islamist extremists who carried out the Camp Chapman attack, a suicide attack against a CIA base near Khost, Afghanistan on 30 December 2009.

An Afghan security official gave al-Balawi's name as Hamman Khalil Abu Mallal al-Balawi. The Arab newspaper The National referred to him as Homam Khaleel Mohammad Abu Mallal. He also used the alias Abu Dujana al-Khurasani or Dujjanah al Kharassani when writing for jihadi websites. Hajj Yacoub, a self-proclaimed spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, identified him as Hamman Khalil Mohammed.

Al-Balawi was born in Kuwait on 25 December 1977. He grew up in a middle-class family of nine other children, including an identical twin brother, and lived in Kuwait until Iraq's 1990 invasion of the country, when the family moved to Jordan. He graduated with honors from an Amman high school.

Al-Balawi studied medicine for six years in Turkey at Istanbul University and graduated in 2002. He also received medical training at the University of Jordan Hospital and at the Islamic hospital run by Jordan’s Islamic Brotherhood in Amman. He was married to Dafinah Bairak (Defne Bayrak), a Turkish journalist and translator, with whom he had two children. They lived in the lower-income Amman suburb of Jabal Nuzhah.

Al-Balawi had a history of supporting violent Islamist causes. He was tagged by the National Intelligence Organization of Turkey as having a relation with the Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front. It is not clear whether this information was shared with other intelligence organizations. According to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist websites, he was a well-known contributor to al-Hesbah, an online forum run by Islamist extremists. He also ran his own Islamist blog.