Kabul , Afghanistan ( CNN ) -- The man believed to be the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees and contractors last year appears in a newly released video , claiming to have tricked Jordanian intelligence officers as a double agent . The 43-minute video , posted on various Islamic radical Web sites Saturday , shows Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi , whom a former U.S. intelligence official identified as the suicide bomber . Family members have said that the man in the video , who uses the alias Abu Dajana Al-Khorasani , is al-Balawi . A much shorter version of the video was posted online in January . The December 30 bombing at a U.S. base in Khost , in southeastern Afghanistan , killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian army captain . The video posted Saturday is dated `` Safar 1431 '' on the lunar calendar , which includes any day between January 16 , 2010 and February 13 , 2010 . In the video , al-Balawi says killing the CIA team was n't part of the initial plan . `` We planned for something but got a bigger gift -- a gift from God -- who brought us ... a valuable prey : Americans , and from the CIA . '' The video opens with a montage of images -- including clips of torture and meetings of world leaders , such as former President George W. Bush with Jordan 's King Abdullah and President Obama . A narrator criticizes the `` infidel West , '' and talks of crimes against Muslims . Al-Balawi then appears on the video , vowing to bring down the CIA and saying how he deceived Jordanian officials into believing he worked for them . `` Look , this is for you , '' he says to the camera , while sitting in a vehicle . `` It 's not a watch . It 's a detonator to kill as many as I can , God willing . '' Later in the video , al-Balawi gives an interview to As-Sahab Media , the production wing of al Qaeda . He says he had tried to join `` jihad '' in Iraq after the start of the U.S.-led war there . He began to write on online forums about jihad , he tells an unidentified interviewer in a room . He says he found his opportunity to join the militant mission after being recruited by Jordanian officials as a spy in Afghanistan . Al-Balawi was recruited by Jordanian authorities as a counterterrorism intelligence source , a Jordanian official told CNN last month . `` Actually , Jordanian intelligence -- may God send consecutive curses on it -- is the one who gave me a large amount of money , it is the one who paid for my ticket , and it is the one who helped me to forge some documents I needed to get a Pakistani visa , '' the man in the video says . Jordanian and U.S. intelligence agencies apparently believed al-Balawi had been rehabilitated from his extremist views and were using him to hunt Ayman al-Zawahiri , al Qaeda 's No . 2 figure , a former U.S. intelligence official said . Al-Balawi claims in the video that the Jordanian authorities paid him and that the money went to support the Mujahedeen . `` So this is a new era for the Mujahedeen , God willing , in which the Mujahedeen will use intelligence-based tactics and methods which rival or even exceed those of the security apparatuses of the strongest of states , like Jordan and America , with the permission of Allah , Lord of the worlds , '' he says . Al-Balawi said he initially targeted a Jordanian official , referred to as Sharif Ali bin Zaid . The narrator said that Zaid , an army captain , was killed in the attack . `` So it was n't planned this way , '' al-Balawi said . `` The target was Abu Zaid , but the stupidity of Jordanian intelligence and the stupidity of American intelligence is what has turned it into a valuable prey . It 's a blessing from Allah . '' The man explained why he was choosing a suicide mission , or `` martyrdom , '' for his attack on the U.S. base in Khost . `` You can only get a maximum number of kills for a minimum number of martyrs and losses in the ranks of the Mujahedeen with a martyrdom operation , '' he said .
Sharif Ali bin Zaid has been Al-Balawi 'd as bomber who killed 2 ID agents . Newly released video shows Afghanistan describing what led to suicide attack . He says CIA team was not original target , but `` a gift from God , '' who sent `` valuable prey '' Al-Balawi says in video he fooled Jordanian officials into thinking he worked for them .