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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 09:36 AM
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Forty-five Arrested for Having Links With Davis (CIA Contractor who Killed Two in Pakistan)
Edited on Mon Feb-28-11 09:45 AM by tekisui
Source: Dawn

ISLAMABAD: The law enforcement agencies arrested 45 individuals for staying in constant contact with Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor who shot dead two Pakistanis in Lahore last month, DawnNews reported on Monday.

The individuals had been arrested from Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar and their contact information was taken from Davis’ mobile phone. Investigations were underway.

On January 27, Raymond Davis, a staffer at the US consulate-general in Lahore, shot dead two Pakistani men who he said were trying to rob him in broad daylight on the streets of the city.

A third Pakistani was run over and killed by a US consular vehicle coming to aid Davis, who was instead taken into Pakistani police custody.

more: http://www.dawn.com/2011/02/28/investigation-scope-broadened-in-davis%E2%80%99-case-45-arrested.html

ETA: American Operatives Suspend Activities, Some Leave Pakistan
Source: MSN

Islamabad, Feb 28 (PTI) At least 30 suspected covert US operatives have suspended their activities in Pakistan and 12 have left the country following the arrest of CIA contractor Raymond Davis late last month, according to a media report today.

In the wake of Davis'' arrest in Lahore on January 27 for gunning down two men, Pakistan''s intelligence agencies began scrutinising records of Americans living in the country and discovered "several discrepancies".

This caused "many suspected American operatives to maintain a low profile and others to leave the country altogether", The Express Tribune newspaper quoted its sources as saying.

The Foreign Ministry states there are 851 Americans with diplomatic immunity in Pakistan, of whom 297 are not working in a diplomatic capacity. Sources in the Interior Ministry told the daily that the number of US non-diplomats is 414.

more: http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4975089
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 09:38 AM
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1. Recommended
Thank you for this.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 09:41 AM
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2. Good
Jail all the mercenaries
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 09:50 AM
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3. This guy kept his network of agents on his cell phone?
If so, Blackwater/Xe has some of the stupidest, most ill-trained, overpaid Bozos in the entire security and intelligence contracting industry.

Why is anyone in that crew still in business?
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 09:51 AM
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4. They're still in business because the US still pays them and then
rushes to their defense when they fuck up.
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 10:00 AM
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5. They know where a lot of bodies are buried.
Edited on Mon Feb-28-11 10:37 AM by leveymg
Literally. Blackwater received several CIA contracts in 2003-03, including support for Predator drone operations in South Asia as well as a worldwide contract to carry out extrajudicial executions that was revealed in 2010.

What did Davis know, and what were his previous assignments?
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 10:12 AM
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6. Davis' link to TF-373 not confirmed. Lots of Pakistani press chatter about what he was actually up
Edited on Mon Feb-28-11 10:38 AM by leveymg
to and why the Pakistani police moved in to arrest him. Reportedly, his name was not on the original diplomatic list: http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=78433

There are speculations that Davis was a member of a ‘Special Mission Unit’, based in Pakistan’s vicinity, with the objective of making plans and preparations to seize Pakistan’s nukes, if and when necessary. His task was to develop intelligence, contacts and agents in furtherance of his unit’s mission. May be the individuals he killed somehow knew too much about his plans and refused to fall in line with him; whereby Davis had no choice but to kill them irrespective of the cost. There are a number of theories circulating about the identity and credentials of the slain duo as well as Davis.

Two days before Davis went on killing spree, the US Embassy had forwarded its annual lists of diplomatic and non-diplomatic staff in Pakistan to the Pakistan’s Foreign Office. Raymond Davis was not on the diplomatic list. The day after the incident, the US Embassy resubmitted a revised list adding killer’s name to diplomatic list. When Pakistani police took Davis into custody, he had an ordinary American passport with a valid ordinary Pakistan visa, issued by the Pakistan Embassy in Washington.


Another Pakistani report implies he was stirring false flag activities by the Pakistani Taliban and and alludes to unconfirmed Russian propaganda site line that he was involved with nuclear and biological warfare: http://www.pakpassion.net/ppforum/showthread.php?p=3519186

The 36-year-old Davis is a former member of the US Army Special Forces and had been employed by security firm XE Services, previously known as Blackwater. Davis began working for the CIA nearly four years ago, and came to Pakistan in late 2009. He was living with other security personnel at a safe house in Lahore before the shooting incident.

The Americans immediately claimed that Davis should be granted immunity from prosecution on the basis of his diplomatic status. With each passing day, the rhetoric levels increased with President Barack Obama jumping in to claim publicly that Davis had immunity, and sent over Sen. John Kerry to Islamabad to carry out his message.

Meanwhile, unnamed officials in Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said that the government has already determined that Davis does not have blanket immunity.

During his visit, Kerry who is the chairman of US Senate Foreign Relations Committee stated that his purpose was to “help tone down the rhetoric and reaffirm the US partnership with Pakistan,” in the wake of the Davis detention row. But the new revelations of Davis’ CIA affiliation points to something more sinister.

Some newspapers cited unnamed sources to link Davis with “terrorist activity” and the Pakistani Taleban. It was alleged that Davis actively aided and abetted terrorism.

The headline in The Express Tribune blared, “CIA agent Davis had ties with local militants.” Quoting an unnamed “senior police official”, the Tribune said that Davis was suspected of masterminding terrorist activity.

“His close ties with the TTP (The Pakistani Taleban) were revealed during the investigations, and he was instrumental in recruiting young people from Punjab for the Taleban to fuel the insurgency.” The police official said Davis had joined hands with the Pakistani Taleban in a bid to stir up uncertainty in Pakistan and support the argument that its nuclear weapons were not in safe hands. Call records of Davis’ cell phone allegedly establish his link to 27 Taleban militants and a sectarian group known as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the police source said.

The South Asian news agency ANI reported that — according to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service — Davis was giving nuclear and biowarfare materials to Al-Qaeda. Davis had been found in possession of top-secret CIA documents or linked with the feared American Task Force 373 (TF373) operating in the region.

ANI stated that the SVR claimed that the apprehension of 36-year-old Davis had fueled this crisis. Documentation seized after his arrest point to his being a member of TF373 black operations unit currently operating in the Afghan War Theater and Pakistan’s tribal areas, the report said.

Pakistan says that the duo were ISI agents sent to follow him after it was discovered that Davis had been making contact with Al-Qaeda, after his cell phone was tracked to the Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan, the paper said.

The most ominous point in this SVR report is “Pakistan’s ISI stating that top-secret CIA documents found in Davis’ possession point to his, and/or TF373, providing to Al-Qaeda terrorists “nuclear fissile material” and “biological agents”, which they claim are to be used against the United States itself in order to ignite an all-out war in order to re-establish the West’s hegemony over a global economy that is just months away from collapse,” the paper added.


There is no real evidence to back-up these rumors that I can find. Anyone have anything on that?
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