Nuke
thanks for the heads up, i can't find anything that backs this story up, It does look like a planted story.
But this is a very interesting case still.
We may never know what really is going on there.
Old CIA ties with AlQuida and ISI. Old friends or new enemies? in the CIA's eyes who can tell.
Has the makings of an interest fiction book.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-Pakistan.html
Raymond Davis 'was acting head of CIA in Pakistan'
A US intelligence agent arrested after shooting dead two men was the acting head of the CIA in Pakistan and had been gathering intelligence for drone attacks, according to intelligence sources...
...On Tuesday The Nation newspaper, which has close links to Pakistan's military establishment, claimed one of his main tasks was to keep the CIA network intact in the tribal agencies, where al-Qaeda-linked militants maintain bases, and that he was familiar with their local languages.
Pakistan authorities say they recovered items including a make-up kit, long-range radio, a GPRS system and a camera containing photographs of sensitive locations.
Telephone records suggest he was in contact with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and the Pakistan Taliban in South Waziristan.
Even Pakistan's spies say they had no idea what Davis was doing in Lahore.
A senior intelligence source told The Daily Telegraph he was unknown to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence directorate and was operating outside the normal agreements between the two countries.
"We want the US to come clean on what exactly he was up to," he said.
American officials initially said Mr Davis worked for the US consulate in Lahore before claiming he worked for the embassy in Islamabad, and was entitled to full immunity.
However, The New York Times on Monday reported that Davis was part of a CIA operation tracking Islamist extremists in eastern Pakistan, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, the virulently anti-Indian group blamed for the bloody 2008 siege of Mumbai. ....
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/8...actor-sources/
WASHINGTON/LAHORE (Reuters) - An American held on murder charges in Pakistan after a shooting worked as a CIA contractor but was not involved in covert operations, U.S. sources closely following the case said on Monday.
The confirmation of a link with the CIA -- which had been reported in recent days in Pakistani media -- was likely to further strain Washington's ties with Islamabad over the case.
...Officials strongly denied news reports alleging Davis was part of a covert CIA-led team of operatives conducting surveillance on militant groups........
....While some Pakistani officials have signalled they would like to back Davis's immunity, the government so far has said local courts must decide.
Crowley said the United States was not considering curtailing economic or military assistance to Pakistan to show its displeasure over Davis' treatment....
...U.S. sources denied reports and rumours in Pakistan suggesting Davis' assailants had some connection with Pakistan's principal intelligence agency, the Inter Service Intelligence directorate, known as ISI.
With cooperation from ISI elements, the U.S. government, including the CIA, has for the past several years been attacking militants in Pakistani tribal areas using missiles fired from remotely piloted drone aircraft.
Relations between ISI and its U.S. counterparts have deteriorated since an incident last year in which the name of the CIA's undercover station chief in Pakistan was leaked to local media, resulting in the official having to make a hasty exit from the country....
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Abc news
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/ray-da...ry?id=12869411
....But the version of events told by multiple Pakistani officials -- and adamantly denied by the U.S. State Department -- is utterly different.
The four Pakistani officials who spoke to ABC News on the condition of anonymity say that the two men who Raymond Davis killed in Lahore last month were working for Pakistan's premiere intelligence service, and they were following Davis because he was spying. ...
....According to the Pakistani officials, the two men had been sent to track Raymond Davis by the Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, which believed that Davis had crossed "a red line" and needed to be followed.
In late January, those officials say, Davis was asked to leave an area of Lahore restricted by the military. His cell phone was tracked, said one government official, and some of his calls were made to the Waziristan tribal areas, where the Pakistani Taliban and a dozen other militant groups have a safe haven. Pakistani intelligence officials saw him as a threat who was "encroaching on their turf," the official said. ...
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110211...courtdiplomacy
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On January 27 he shot two Pakistani men and after his arrest told police he acted in self-defence because he feared they were trying to rob him.
The US consulate general in Lahore sent a vehicle to recover Davis, but it ran over and killed a third Pakistani man before fleeing the scene.
US lawmakers have threatened to cut payments to Pakistan, the beneficiary of $7.5 billion dollars of aid and $2 billion in military aid, and Washington has warned that high-level dialogue is at risk unless Davis is freed.
ABC News claimed US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon had threatened to expel Pakistan's ambassador to Washington, shut US consulates and cancel a forthcoming visit by the Pakistani president if Davis is not released.
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"It was cold-blooded murder. Eye witnesses have told police that he directly shot at them and he kept shooting even when one was running away. It was an intentional murder," Tareen said.
He said there were no fingerprints on the triggers of the pistols found on the bodies of the two men and that tests showed the bullets were still in the weapons' magazines, and not the chambers.
"His plea has been rejected by police investigators," Tareen said, speaking in English. "He gave no chance to them to survive. That is why we consider it was not self-defence. We have proof it was not self-defence."
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Why would we threaten Pakistans 1.9 billion a year over 1 guy?
What's up with that? That may be an over statement in the reporting,
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