A SUICIDE bomber who killed eight people at a CIA base in Afghanistan was an al-Qaida triple agent who duped Western intelligence services for months before turning on his handlers, jihadist websites boasted yesterday.

The Taliban today admitted they were behind two separate bombings in Afghanistan that killed 13 Westerners.

A suicide bomber at a base in Afghanistan’s volatile east killed eight American civilians, US officials said, the worst loss of life for Americans in the country since October.