It's tragic but it's been a hard lesson of all the agencies running sources against muslim terrorist org's. We (AFOSI) lost three agents in Iraq to bad source handling a couple years back. I knew one of them, not well, but I knew him.

Arab's in peticular think very long term. They have a saying; the son of my son will avenge me. I can only speculate, but this feels to me as a long term type plot they would work against a counterintelligence agency.