Raymond Davis 'Acting Head Of CIA In Pakistan' Held For Double Murder: Video Of Police Interview After Shootings
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- "I work as a consultant..."
Did Punjab authorites unknowingly arrest the head of the CIA in Pakistan?
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UPDATE: CIA spy Davis was giving nuclear bomb material to Al-Qaeda
http://in.news.yahoo.com/cia-spy-davis-giving-nuclear-bomb-material-al-20110219-224833-452.html
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Raymond Davis 'was acting head of CIA in Pakistan'
Source - UK Telegraph
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.
Raymond Davis, a 36-year-old former special forces soldier, had taken command after the CIA station chief's cover was blown, according to reports.
American officials insist he is entitled to diplomatic immunity and that he be released immediately.
Davis has been held for almost a month in a Lahore prison while a court decides his status.
The case has provoked a surge in anti-American hostility and spawned a wave of conspiracy theories.
Many Pakistanis have questioned whether Davis was really the victim of an attempted robbery – as he told police – and exactly why he was driving around Lahore with a Glock handgun in a rented car.
This week it emerged that he was employed by the CIA and that he was engaged in an undercover operation.
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.
The wife of one of the men shot has committed suicideon Sunday. Shumaila Kanwal, the widow of Muhammad Faheem, was admitted on Sunday night after swallowing rat poison.
In the hospital before her passing...
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Two CIA contractors spirited out of Pakistan
(Reuters) - Two U.S. citizens with diplomatic status were quietly withdrawn from Pakistan after being involved in a fatal car accident last month while trying to help Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor being held by Pakistani authorities on murder charges.
Two officials familiar with U.S. government activities in Pakistan said the two Americans who left the country worked for the CIA under contract as protective officers. This means they were employed as highly skilled bodyguards, like Davis, for CIA operations officers serving in Pakistan.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/23/us-pakistan-usa-cia-idUSTRE71M6DF20110223
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How Many More Davis Type Agents Are In Pakistan?
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Update with new link above.
Reader Comments (16)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8340999/Raymond-Davis-was-acting-head-of-CIA-in-Pakistan.html
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/21/accused-killer-raymond-davis-us-diplomat-in-pakistan-or-cia-spy/
(Reuters) - Two U.S. citizens with diplomatic status were quietly withdrawn from Pakistan after being involved in a fatal car accident last month while trying to help Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor being held by Pakistani authorities on murder charges.
Two officials familiar with U.S. government activities in Pakistan said the two Americans who left the country worked for the CIA under contract as protective officers. This means they were employed as highly skilled bodyguards, like Davis, for CIA operations officers serving in Pakistan.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/23/us-pakistan-usa-cia-idUSTRE71M6DF20110223
http://in.news.yahoo.com/cia-spy-davis-giving-nuclear-bomb-material-al-20110219-224833-452.html
Meanwhile, the Pakistani press is reporting the same stuff about Davis being in contact with "ancillaries of Al Qaeda" in Pakistan. Maybe that's just Pakistani propaganda -- evil Americans working with terrists to destabilize the motherland, etc., etc. Some kind of crazy sh** is going down here.
I remember a few weeks ago hearing about the shooting, thinking simply that it could cause Pakistan to explode against its own government, but the plot has thickened and then some.
here's a link pitch...interesting reading...
NO- maybe it is high time for activist judges to start legislating from the bench
Judges are political hacks that are appointed by the republican and democrat regimes.
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/02/22/judge-found-guilty-in-cash-for-kids-case-mother-of-child-not-pleased/
After all, shouldn't it just be called good business these days, ask the bankers and their judges. I am sure they will agree. And Davis was just conducting good business as well, if it was not for those pesky regulations on selling Nuclear/ Biological materials to terrorists, no harm no fowl, down with regulations!!!! (heavy sarcasm).
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/oilwar1.html
The fact is there are people in this country that risk their lives and freedom for everyone else. Safe to say Bernanke, Buffet and Blankfien don't possess the personal qualities of self sacrifice.
I hope Obama and Leon Pineta force the Pakistanis to give us back our CIA agent. Makes you wonder if he killed the people that were going to tell Osama to move or that he was compromised.
I can't wait for the movie.
Obama you better get our agents back. Don't pull a George "the traitor" Bush when he placated the mexican drug dealers by imprisoning our INS agents.
Thanks DB for the repost, I'm going to forward it. It is a good example that sometimes, secrets need to be kept for integrity of the mission.
http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/16/behind_the_scenes_of_raymond_davis_release
Last line in article:
the ISI in particular has the upper hand here, and has impressed upon the CIA to make it clear that they cannot run a network under the noses of the powerful spy agency. To use tennis lingo: Advantage: ISI. What happens in the next round is anyone's guess.
Game, set, match: CIA
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-05/04/c_13858709.htm