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RT Interview:  "NATO Gangsters: US Plays With Fire Infuriating Nuclear Pakistan" [11/27/11]   [4:00] "NATO admits it's probably to blame for a deadly helicopter raid on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, that killed up to 28 Pakistani soldiers and injured over a dozen others. Islamabad responded by cutting off the flow of vital NATO supplies to Afghanistan. The incident may deal a serious blow to their already-strained relations over lethal incursions in Pakistani territory. John Rees, a political analyst from the British-based 'Stop the War Coalition', told RT that the U.S. and its allies are creating an explosive situation in the volatile region. [...]" 

Update: "No Unilateral Action Inside Pakistan: Clinton" [10/22/11] " Hillary Clinton on Friday ruled out any unilateral action against terrorists’ safe havens inside Pakistan saying, “We want action against them in concert with our strategic partners like Pakistan.” [...]"  Related: "US Build-up on Border With Pakistan" [10/21/11]   "American soldiers have launched a major operation this week that has seen hundreds of US and Afghan troops mass near Afghanistan’s eastern border with Pakistan, raising suspicions over a possible unilateral military strike in North Waziristan. Called “Operation Knife Edge,“ the allied forces are deploying right up to the Pakistani border with helicopter gunships and heavy artillery, blocking the main road between the two countries and conducting house-to-house searches. An Afghan Defense Ministry? official said the operation was “largely against the Haqqani network,” the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) and the Afghan security forces’ chief threat in eastern Afghanistan. Pakistan’s army chief, General Ashfaq Kiyani, admits American forces may cross the border during this current operation, but this time to confront the Haqqani organization. [...]" | "Pakistan Army Chief Warns US, Flexes Nuke Muscle" [5:24] "Pakistan Army Chief General Kayani warned US and said Pakistan is a nuclear power and cannot be compared to Iraq and Afghanistan. [...]" | Clinton Heading To Pakistan, To Push Cooperation" "Clinton will head to Pakistan after visiting Afghanistan, and plans to push for greater cooperation between the neighbors on fighting militants, peace talks, and economic development, a US official said. [...]"   Note: She's such a delusional cartoon character.  

Commentary: "The U.S. Is Actively Plotting To Grab Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons" [08/06/11] "American officials are actively forming and testing plans to "snatch" Pakistan's nuclear weapons, more than 100 in total, should the country devolve into chaos and Islamist militants stage an attack on one of its nuclear sites, as they have three times before, NBC News' Robert Windrem reports. Such an operation would probably be carried out by the U.S. Nuclear Emergency Search Team, profiled in a 2009 book by Jeffrey Richelson, in conjunction with the Joint Special Operations Command, which helped lead the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May. Windrem says that war games and military exercises to prepare for such an attack have probably already begun. The "snatch and grab" operation would carry much higher risks than the relatively small raid to kill bin Laden, however, and could even inadvertently lead to regional war, if Pakistan mistakenly thought India had taken the weapons. Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf told NBC News that an American attempt to seize the nukes would lead to all-out war between Pakistan and the United States. “These are assets which are the pride of Pakistan, assets which are dispersed and very secure in very secure places, guarded by a corps of 18,000 soldiers,” Musharaff told Windrem. “(This) is not an army which doesn't know how to fight. This is an army which has fought three wars. Please understand that.” [...]"  

Propaganda: "CIA Caught In Fake Vaccination Program In Pakistan … To Get Osama Bin Laden’s Family DNA" [07/12/11]   "... The CIA refused to comment on the vaccination plot. [...]" Note: This story is, ITSELF, part of the bullshit propaganda CIA story that Bin Laden was ‘there’. Bin Laden is not relevant. If anything, the fact that the CIA maintains that it conducts vaccine programs should be the MAIN point.  It’s all a sub-plot of the original deception.

Commentary: "Push To Secretly Approve GM Corn In Pakistan Leads To Resignation Of Chief GM Regulator" [07/05/11] "Attempts by biotechnology giant Monsanto to thwart the proper approval process for its GM corn in Pakistan have led to massive outcry by various stakeholders who recognize they have been deliberately ignored and betrayed by their own government. And the uproar against this high-level corruption has been so strong in recent days that Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad, head of a government subcommittee that tried to secretly aid Monsanto's efforts to push through its GM corn, recently resigned from his position. [...]" 

MSM: "US Rejects Pakistani Demand to Leave Air Base" [07/04/11]   "Fresh off of the public demand by Pakistani Defense Minister Chaudhry Mukhar that the United States must immediately vacate the Shamsi Air Base, a small airfield in Pakistani Balochistan which the US has been using for drone attacks, the Obama Administration has officially rejected the demand.The consequences of this unprecedented stance remain to be seen, but US officials insist that Shamsi is not being vacated, nor will it be vacated, and that the US will rather continue to use the base. If they assume that the Pakistani government will simply let the matter drop or not, they seem intent on occupying the base outside of the Zardari government’s consent. [...]"  

Commentary: "Pakistan Sends Home American Military Trainers As Mutual Mistrust Deepens" [06/12/11]   "Pakistan has sent home two thirds of the American soldiers training its paramilitary border forces, as mistrust over the killing of Osama bin Laden continues to blight relations between the allies. Ninety of the 135 US service personnel training Pakistan's Frontier Corps have left the country after Islamabad officials said they had "reassessed our requirements". The Pentagon had confirmed it was reducing the number of troops, but had not given a figure. A Pakistani military official said: "Where essential elements are required we are keeping them. In very critical areas of maintenance and technical capability, where we do not have the qualified people then we are keeping them. "But otherwise they are being asked to leave." Anti-American sentiment is strong in Pakistan and relations between Islamabad and Washington had been strained long before bin Laden was found last month hiding in the garrison town of Abbottabad. Pakistan first ordered American troops leave during the anti-American backlash after Raymond Davis, a CIA security contractor, shot dead two men in Lahore in January. The bin Laden raid worsened relations further and escalated the removal of US soldiers.  [...]"  Related: "New Setback for US-Pakistan Ties" "The Pakistani government’s official position is that most of the tribal areas are now under control. The US, however, sees the threats as growing, and is also growing in their accusations that elements of the Zardari government are secretly in league with militants. The claims are extremely convenient to the Obama Administration’s recent number of unilateral attacks into Pakistani territory, giving them the excuse that the Pakistani government simply cannot be trusted. It will come with a price, however, as relations between the two nations seem to be getting worse all the time. It seems every week lately a top administration official visits Pakistan and makes tensions even worse. [...]"  

Commentary:  "US, Pakistan Near Open War; Chinese Ultimatum Warns Washington Against Attack" Webster Tarpley [05/22/11] "China has officially put the United States on notice that Washington’s planned attack on Pakistan will be interpreted as an act of aggression against Beijing. This blunt warning represents the first known strategic ultimatum received by the United States in half a century, going back to Soviet warnings during the Berlin crisis of 1958-1961, and indicates the grave danger of general war growing out of the US-Pakistan confrontation. “Any Attack on Pakistan Would be Construed as an Attack on China” Responding to reports that China has asked the US to respect Pakistan’s sovereignty in the aftermath of the Bin Laden operation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu used a May 19 press briefing to state Beijing’s categorical demand that the “sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan must be respected.” According to Pakistani diplomatic sources cited by the Times of India, China has “warned in unequivocal terms that any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an attack on China.”... [...]"  Related: Pakistan Spy Chief Asks U.S. To End Drone Strikes" "Pakistan's intelligence chief has reportedly asked the United States to stop its drone strikes in the country, a newspaper reported on Sunday, touching on an issue that has become more sensitive since the killing of Osama bin Laden strained ties. The local Express Tribune said Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director Ahmad Shuja Pasha made the request in a meeting on Saturday with CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell. "We will be forced to respond if you do not come up with a strategy that stops the drone strikes," Pasha is reported to have told Morell, the newspaper said on its website. [...]"  "Obama Vows More Raids Inside Pakistan"    Note: As if any more proof of mental pathology was needed. A country of 300 million people is taken down by the pathology of around 1,000 people, half of whom work in Congress, which has, especially over the last 30 years, enabled the current pathological dynamic. So, here we are on planet Stupid .... for now.

Propaganda: "Satellite Images Reveal Pakistan Is Rushing To Finish Weapons-Grade Nuclear Reactor" [05/21/11]   "New satellite images have shown the alarming speed at which Pakistan is constructing a weapons-grade nuclear reactor. The aerial images, taken on April 20, show the rapid building progress of the fourth reactor to produce plutonium in Pakistan's Khushab facility. The site was barren in 2009 and the facility 'costing billions' was undetectable by satellite just 17 months ago, but has since grown at an alarming rate. [...]"  Note: It's only 'alarming' if you're looking for a trumped-up excuse to kill people.

World Politics: "US To Deploy Troops If Pak Nukes Come Under Threat" [05/18/11] "US troops will be deployed in Pakistan if the nation's nuclear installations come under threat from terrorists out to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Sunday Express can reveal on Sunday. The plan, which would be activated without President Asif Ali Zardari's consent, provoked an angry reaction from Pakistan officials last night. Barack Obama would order troops to parachute in to protect key nuclear missile sites. These include the air force's central Sargodha HQ, home base for nuclear-capable F-16 combat aircraft and at least 80 ballistic missiles. [...]"   

World Politics: " NATO Helicopter Attacks Pakistani Army Post" [05/18/11] "Pakistani troops and a NATO helicopter that crossed into Pakistani territory exchanged fire on Tuesday, wounding two soldiers, local officials said, and Pakistan protested, further straining relations with the West following the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Also Tuesday, the army said a "senior al-Qaida operative" had been arrested in the port city of Karachi. In a brief statement, it said Yemeni national Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub, alias Abu Sohaib Al Makki, had been working directly under al Qaida leaders along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. It did not say when he was arrested. It was not immediately possible to locate any independent information about Al Makki. Pakistan's army and intelligence agencies have faced intense international suspicions since bin Laden was killed on May 2 in an American raid on a large house in the army town of Abbottabad not far from the capital. Many American lawmakers have said bin Laden's location was a strong sign that Pakistan was playing a "double game" — that is accepting U.S. aid but also protecting terrorists. Pakistan denies that. [...]"  

Commentary: "Pakistan Hushing Up The Issue: "Bin Laden" Compound Owned By CIA Asset" [05/18/11] "In light of the reports of a cache of pornography that was also discovered among bin Laden’s effects, the picture that emerges is one of a man who was not quite the zealous, Islamo-facist the government of the United States formerly forwarded as the ultimate “enemy of the state” and “public enemy number one.” Putting aside the questionable plants growing in the garden and the questionable choice of viewing material hidden inside the house, there’s something much more sinister about the house where Osama bin Laden allegedly met his demise. An article published by India Today describes a feature of the house that deserves much more attention than marijuana or pornography. Quoting another piece published in Toronto’s Globe and Mail, the paper reports: Hizbul Mujahedeen, a militant group active in Kashmir, owned the mansion in the scenic town of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces, a Canadian newspaper has reported, claiming that Pakistan is hushing up the issue of the ownership of the compound. [...]"  

"Fear That U.S. Could Grab Nuclear Arsenal Heightens Pakistani Anger" [05/10/11]   "The pervasive Pakistani belief that the U.S. would be willing and able to effectively steal the country's nuclear weapons helps explain Islamabad's surprisingly aggressive official response to the Navy SEAL assault that killed Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted terrorist. Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, the head of Pakistan's armed forces, released a blistering public statement late last week condemning the U.S. assault and warning that he would order his troops to use armed force against any American troops who entered Pakistan. "As regards the possibility of similar hostile action against our strategic assets, the [Pakistani military] reaffirmed that, unlike an undefended civilian compound, our strategic assets are well protected and an elaborate defensive mechanism is in place," Kayani said in a statement put out by the military's official press office. The remarks stunned and angered many senior Obama administration officials, who had expected Pakistan to apologize for the pervasive intelligence failures that allowed bin Laden to spend five years living in an affluent Islamabad suburb under the nose of thousands of Pakistani security officials. American officials also thought Pakistan would quickly ramp up its intelligence sharing about the whereabouts of bin Laden's likely successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, as part of a package of conciliatory gestures toward Washington, where anti-Pakistani sentiment is running at a fever pitch. Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said his staff would investigate whether elements of Pakistan's government, military, or intelligence service knew bin Laden was in their country or helped shelter him. [...]"  Note: Corrupt Carl Levin of course continues to participate in this OBL fabrication.   Related: "Pakistani Prime Minister Threatens U.S With Military Action If Attacks In Pakistan Happen Again" [3:31]    

Commentary: "Pakistan's Praise Of China An Angry Message To U.S.  " [05/10/11]    "In the thunderous speeches to Pakistan's parliament about the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Prime Minister's spirited defence of his administration and the opposition's fiery attacks, all sides agreed on one point: Pakistan's new best friend is China. That is the angry message that Pakistani politicians wanted their American allies to hear, at least, when they applauded and banged their desks at every mention of the word "China" in Parliament House. The United States inflicted deep embarrassment with the unilateral raid on Mr. bin Laden's hideout, and the discomfort continues as Washington pushes for answers about Islamabad's role in concealing the world's most-wanted terrorist in a garrison town. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani answered with a 30-minute speech to parliament, denying any collusion with terrorists, warning of retaliation against future breaches of sovereignty, and promising an investigation. He said his government can still work productively with the United States, on which Pakistan depends for at least $4-billion a year in assistance. [...]"   

"Pakistan Air Force: No Violations Of Air Space. "If Ordered, The PAF Can Shoot Down The US Drones"" [05/09/11]   "Pakistan Air Force has assured the government that no foreign helicopters or fighter planes will be allowed to violate the Pakistani air space in future and if ordered, the PAF can shoot down the US drones. Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman has accepted the responsibility of air surveillance failure but informed the government that the entry of American helicopters into the Pakistani air space was not detected because the radars deployed on the western borders were not active on May 2. He dispelled the impression that the Pakistani radars were jammed. The success of American operation against Osama bin Laden has raised many questions about the capability of Pakistan Army and Air Force. Tension between Pakistan and the US further increased on Friday after another drone attack in the tribal area. The PAF clearly told the government that they never perceived any threat for urban areas of Pakistan from Afghanistan and that was why the radars deployed close to the western borders were “on rest”. It was learnt that radars deployed on the borders with India and the LoC with the Indian occupied Kashmir are active 24 hours and that was why Pakistan came to know about a possible Indian attack in December 2008 immediately after the Mumbai attacks. It was the evening of December 21, 2008 when Pakistan came to know about the unusual movement of Indian Army and Air Force. When the threat was confirmed, then within minutes Pakistan Air Force night fighters were ordered to fly.  Pakistan has two kinds of radars, high-level radars and low-level radars. High-level radars are meant to protect the air space. Low-level radars are used for training flights. The maximum life of high-level radars is 25,000 hours. These radars need overhauling after three years and they cannot work after nine years. Due to the expensive nature of high-level radars, Pakistan Air Force does not use these machines 24 hours on western borders and that was the reason the American helicopters entered Pakistan without challenge.
It was also learnt that Pakistan Air Force informed the government long ago for the need of a modern surveillance system, which could cover all the areas of Pakistan. On the request of the PAF, the former government made a deal with Sweden and China for the purchase of modern aircraft with radar systems. The PAF has received three Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) planes from Sweden and one more will come in June 2011. China has provided one ZDK-03 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEWC) plane and three more will come at the end of this year. These modern machines will be activated soon and it will cover the whole of Pakistan. In the meanwhile, PAF activated all radars deployed on the western borders after the May 2 incident, which means that foreign forces present in Afghanistan will now be considered as a threat to the security of Pakistan. [...]"  

Webster Tarpley: "Bin Laden Reality TV a Mass Brainwashing PsyOp Seeking to Establish Fake Treasure Trove of Terabytes that will be Used to Target US Adversaries Worldwide; Growing Momentum Towards False Flag Attack to be Blamed on Pakistan via al Qaeda" [05/09/11]   Click 'Play"  [Audio File ]  

"Pakistan Tells U.S. It Must Sharply Cut CIA Activities" [04/12/11] "Pakistan has demanded that the United States steeply reduce the number of Central Intelligence Agency operatives and Special Operations forces working in Pakistan, and that it halt C.I.A. drone strikes aimed at militants in northwest Pakistan. The request was a sign of the near collapse of cooperation between the two testy allies.  Pakistani and American officials said in interviews that the demand that the United States scale back its presence was the immediate fallout from the arrest in Pakistan of Raymond A. Davis, a C.I.A. security officer who killed two men in January during what he said was an attempt to rob him. In all, about 335 American personnel — C.I.A. officers and contractors and Special Operations forces — were being asked to leave the country, said a Pakistani official closely involved in the decision. It was not clear how many C.I.A. personnel that would leave behind; the total number in Pakistan has not been disclosed. But the cuts demanded by the Pakistanis amounted to 25 to 40 percent of United States Special Operations forces in the country, the officials said. The number also included the removal of all the American contractors used by the C.I.A. in Pakistan. [...]" 

"331 US Officials May Leave Pak Under Secret Deal Over Davis" [03/25/11] "A total of 331 US officials in Pakistan, most of them suspected of engaging in espionage under diplomatic cover, have been "identified to leave the country" under a secret deal between the two sides for release of American national Raymond Davis, a media report said on Thursday. [...]"   

 Investigations: "Spy Game: The CIA, Pakistan And 'Blood Money'" [03/18/11]   "The case of Raymond Davis has all the trappings of a 21st century spy novel. It is a story of murder, prison and clandestine payments, starring a burly former US Special Forces soldier tangled in a murky web of intelligence agencies, competing diplomats and – differentiating his case from Cold War spy sagas – shady private military contractors. Pakistani authorities released the CIA contractor from prison on Wednesday, after families of two motorcyclists he killed in January were paid a reported $2.3mn in "blood money". Details surrounding the case are sketchy at best: a series of claims and counter-claims from various diplomats, agencies and organisations which are almost impossible to independently verify. And the stakes are high. "The case highlights the fact that the US is engaged in a covert war in Pakistan - a country it has not declared war against," says Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: the Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. Davis, 36, once hustled for Blackwater, the controversial military contractor responsible for killing civilians in Iraq, which has since been rebranded as Xe Services LLC. [...]"  

Commentary: "The Peacenik's Payback: Obama Slaughters Pakistani Civilians to Revenge CIA Embarrassment" [03/18/11] "... For weeks, Washington wiggled around in twisted knickers as the Pakistanis put CIA goon-squader Raymond Davis through the horrible, evil process of ... er ... Western jurisprudence, which Pakistan inherited from colonial times. They arrested Davis, charged him with a crime, allowed him to procure defense counsel and then instigated a series of open court proceedings leading to a trial. This was simply unbearable, insupportable, to the Universal Defenders of Human Rights and the Rule of Law who hold such benevolent sway in the American capital.  They demanded Davis be released. They declared that this secret agent had "diplomatic immunity," which meant that he was free to gun down Pakistanis, in Pakistan, without let or hindrance or consequences. All he need do was say he felt "threatened" -- and anything he did in response to this perceived or alleged or imagined or fabricated threat was justified. And why not? This is the same logic that governs America's bipartisan foreign policy writ large; why should it not apply to its individual Glock-packing minions prowling foreign streets in search of prey? George Bush and Dick Cheney said they felt "threatened" by Iraq -- and they set loose a hellstorm that has now left more than a million innocent people dead. And they have certainly never been subjected to the processes of Western jurisprudence for that. Thus you can see why the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Barack Obama -- who has praised George W. Bush for his great service to the country, and who called Bush's "surge" in Iraq (that ferocious orgy of ethnic cleansing and death squad berserkery) an "extraordinary accomplishment" -- would find the Pakistani's treatment of Davis so objectionable.  [...]"  Related: See below.

MSM: "Hillary Clinton Denies Pakistan Pay-Off" [03/18/11] "Sometimes you have to just go out there and lie. It's part of the job. Today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denied that the United States paid "blood money" to the families of the two men who were shot dead by CIA operative Raymond Davis in Lahore, Pakistan roughly two months ago. [...]"  Related:  "Pakistanis Condemn CIA Agent Release"  "Anti-US demonstrations broke out on Wednesday in the capital, Islamabad, and similar protests were held in the major cities of Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. In Lahore, baton-wielding police forces tried to disperse the demonstrators who had gathered in front of the US consulate, injuring several protesters. Pakistani officials say Davis was released after he paid the blood money for the victims. However, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has denied any payments for securing the release. Family members of the slain men appeared in the court and confirmed that they had pardoned Davis. But the move was clouded with reports that they were pressured by police into signing the agreement. Davis killed two locals in the eastern city of Lahore in January in a move repeatedly claimed by Washington to be an act of “self-defense.” The US insisted that as a consulate official, Davis enjoyed diplomatic immunity, but he eventually turned out to be working for CIA. Pakistan has since been under mounting pressure to release Davis. US lawmakers had threatened to cut millions of dollars in military and other aid to Islamabad. The case has soured relations between Islamabad and Washington since January and intensified anti-US sentiments in Pakistan.  [...]"  "‘Blood Money’ Springs CIA Contractor From Pakistan Jail"  "Some 18 relatives of the two slain men, Muhammad Fahim and Faizan Haider, were present in court to accept the money “and independently verified they had pardoned him [Davis],” provincial law minister Rana Sanaullah told private television channel Geo News. Blood-money, or “diyya,” is routinely used to settle murder cases in Pakistan, in compliance with Sharia law. It was seen as the last ditch effort to free Davis by the US authorities after the Lahore High Court failed to accept US claims of diplomatic immunity on Monday. In comments to reporters in Cairo, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denied that the US made the payment Wednesday. Though the US denies paying compensation in the case, Pakistani media reports indicate that more than $2 million were given to the two families, though this could not be verified at time of writing. [...]" "Jailed CIA Agent Let Go By Pakistan" [03/16/11] "Reports say a court in Pakistan has freed a CIA contractor Raymond Davis, who was charged with killing two Pakistani men in the eastern city of Lahore. "A CIA contractor indicted earlier in the day on two murder charges in Pakistan was acquitted and released on Wednesday after a deal to pay "blood money" to the victims' families was reached, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told Reuters. The deal ends a long-simmering diplomatic standoff between Pakistan and the United States. "The court first indicted him but the families later told court that they have accepted the blood money and they have pardoned him," Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told Reuters. "The court acquitted him in the murder case."[...]"  

"Jailed CIA Agent Let Go By Pakistan" [03/16/11] "Reports say a court in Pakistan has freed a CIA contractor Raymond Davis, who was charged with killing two Pakistani men in the eastern city of Lahore. "A CIA contractor indicted earlier in the day on two murder charges in Pakistan was acquitted and released on Wednesday after a deal to pay "blood money" to the victims' families was reached, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told Reuters. The deal ends a long-simmering diplomatic standoff between Pakistan and the United States. "The court first indicted him but the families later told court that they have accepted the blood money and they have pardoned him," Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told Reuters. "The court acquitted him in the murder case."[...]"  

Commentary: "Davis Arrest Throws US Undercover Campaign in Pakistan into Disarray" [03/02/11] "The ongoing case of Raymond Davis, the CIA contractor facing murder charges in Lahore for the execution-style slaying of two apparent agents of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, is apparently leading to a roll-back of America’s espionage and Special Operations activities in Pakistan. A few days ago, Pakistan’s Interior Department, which is reportedly conducting a careful review of the hundreds of private contractors who flooded into Pakistan over the last two years, many with “diplomatic passports,” and many others, like Davis, linked to shady “security” firms, arrested an American security contractor named Aaron DeHaven, a Virginia native who claims to work for a company called Catalyst Services LLC. The Catalyst Services LLC website describes the company, with offices in Afghanistan, Dubai, the US and Pakistan, as having experience in “logistics, operations, security and finance,” and as having a staff led by “individuals who have been involved in some of the most significant events of the last 20 years,” including “the break-up of the Soviet Union, the US effort in Somalia, and the Global War on Terror.” [...]"  

"CIA Director Calls ISI Chief In Backdrop Of Tie-Threatening Davis Issue Standoff" [02/27/11] "US' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta telephoned Pakistan's premier spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha in the backdrop of an apparent standoff between the two agencies. The two intelligence chiefs reportedly discussed the Raymond Davis issue and the status of cooperation between the CIA and the ISI, the Dawn reports. [...]"  

"Pakistanis Have Arrested Another American With Ties To A U.S.-Based Security Firm" [02/26/11] " ... now comes the news that the Pakistanis have arrested another American with ties to a U.S.-based security firm. The man’s name is Aaron Mark DeHaven, and, according to a report by The Guardian, he runs a company called Catalyst Services LLC. Here’s how the company describes itself: [...] The company’s website provides contact numbers in West Virginia, Dubai, and Afghanistan (cell). There’s also a number in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, the city where DeHaven was taken into custody – ostensibly for overstaying his visa, which expired at the end of December 2010. (No one at any of the numbers picked up when Outpost called.) One Indian report, citing officials in Peshawar, says that he’s being detained “under suspicion of espionage” and that he’s undergoing interrogation by intelligence officials. One is inclined to wonder. Some of the reports describe DeHaven as a Pashto speaker and convert to Islam who married a woman from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area and has applied for Pakistani citizenship – not exactly the sort of profile, if the details are accurate, that would endear him to U.S. government agencies. One account suggests that his company has provided security in Peshawar for visiting U.S. officials, which may well turn out to be true. But other aspects of the case certainly don’t make him sound like a superspook. His business partner, a man named Hunter Obrikat, runs a furniture business that – according to some of its past tweets – imports things like “handwoven carpets straight from the tribes of Peshawar.” One thing’s for sure: if DeHaven was a master spy, he couldn’t have picked a worse place to hide. The Pakistani police say he's been living in a housing development called Falcon Complex, right in the middle of Peshawar’s military cantonment. (Just to give you an idea, Falcon Complex is located between Army Flats and the Pakistan Army Signals Post.) So you’re telling me that the ISI, Pakistan’s powerful intelligence service, only just picked up on the fact that DeHaven was lurking around there? Not likely. What’s more probable is that enflamed public opinion is goading the security services to prove that they aren’t American stooges. DeHaven, one suspects, is the low-hanging fruit."   

"CIA Contractor Defiant Before Pakistani Judge" ABC News [02/26/11] "Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor accused of killing two men on the streets of Lahore, Pakistan, appeared before a Pakistani judge today and refused to sign a list of allegations against him, a lawyer in the court said. Davis presented to the judge a written notice declaring diplomatic immunity, Butt said. [...]" Video included 

"Pakistan's Intelligence Ready To Split With CIA" [02/25/11] "Pakistan's ISI spy agency is ready to split with the CIA because of frustration over what it calls heavy-handed pressure and its anger over what it believes is a covert U.S. operation involving hundreds of contract spies, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press and interviews with U.S. and Pakistani officials. Such a move could seriously damage the U.S war effort in Afghanistan, limit a program targeting al-Qaida insurgents along the Pakistan frontier, and restrict Washington's access to information in the nuclear-armed country. [...]"   

  MSM: "U.S. Fears for Life of Outed CIA Contractor in Pakistan Prison" [02/23/11] " U.S. officials believe that Raymond A. Davis, the CIA contractor in Pakistani custody for shooting two men, is in serious danger - even from the guards at the prison where he is now being held. According to the official, the jail holds 4,000 inmates, many of whom are militants, and as many as three prisoners have been "murdered by guards." Davis is currently being held in a separate part of the jail for his safety, and his guards have had their guns taken away. His food is being tasted first by dogs to make sure it isn't poisoned. [...]"  

"Ex-CIA Man Urges U.S. To Pay Bribe To Free Contractor" [02/23/11] "A former CIA senior officer is urging the Obama administration to pay “blood money” to the families of two Pakistani men who were killed by a CIA contractor in order to win his freedom from Pakistani authorities holding him in a murder probe. Duane Clarridge, the first director of the CIA‘s counterterrorism center, said the State Department‘s efforts in arguing that consular agreements compel Pakistani authorities to grant Raymond Allen Davis diplomatic immunity are at a dead end. “All this diplomatic lawyer talk is going to be a waste of time,” Mr. Clarridge told The Washington Times. “What needs to happen is for someone to arrange for the payment of blood money to the relatives of the two guys who died.” [...]"  Note: Simplistic moron. 

"Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) discloses that Davis is CIA" [02/22/11] "Agence France Press reported over the weekend that Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC), a loose-tongued member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, also apparently inadvertently slipped up and disclosed on the Senate floor that Davis is an "agent", saying, "We can't throw this agent over." [...]"  Note:  Then Graham must know that 'Davis' is trying to pawn nuclear material to people set up to be 'terrorists'. I would think that this makes Graham guilty of crimes against humanity, and treason against the US, like many of his fellow Congressmen.  

"CIA's Davis Caught Delivering Nuke and Biological Weapons to CIA Manufactured Boogeyman" [02/22/11] "While the US government continues to maintain he’s a ‘diplomat’, it’s now emerged Davis is in fact a member of the feared TF373 ‘black ops’ unit that operates invisibly in the Af-Pak TOA. The two men Davis is accused of killing were not “robbers”, but in fact two ISI agents who were tailing him. Worse — much worse -- documents found on Davis’ person prove he was working on supplying a dirty bomb to the Taliban.  [...]" 

MSM: "CIA spy" Davis was giving nuclear bomb material to 'Al-Qaeda', says report" [02/22/11] "Double murder-accused US official Raymond Davis has been found in possession of top-secret CIA documents, which point to him or the feared American Task Force 373 (TF373) operating in the region, providing Al-Qaeda terrorists with "nuclear fissile material" and "biological agents," according to a report. [...]"  Note: Just like the FBI, the CIA creates the very problems that it then tramples everyone to 'solve' with a 'national security' dynamic, now worldwide. Of course, we know 'Al Qaeda' is a fabrication for CIA/ISI/Mossad patsies. Related: "CIA Spy Captured Giving Nuclear Bomb To Terrorists"  " ... Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is warning that the situation on the sub-continent has turned “grave” as it appears open warfare is about to break out between Pakistan and the United States. Fueling this crisis, that the SVR warns in their report has the potential to ignite a total Global War, was the apprehension by Pakistan of a 36-year-old American named Raymond Allen Davis (photo), whom the US claims is one of their diplomats, but Pakistani Intelligence Services (ISI) claim Raymond Davis is a spy for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Davis was captured by Pakistani police after he shot and killed two men in the eastern city of Lahore on January 27th that the US claims were trying to rob him. Pakistan, however, says that the two men Davis killed were ISI agents sent to follow him after it was discovered he had been making contact with al Qaeda after his cell phone was tracked to the Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan where the Pakistani Taliban and a dozen other militant groups have forged a safe haven and former CIA agent Tim Osman (also known as Osama bin Laden) is believed to be in hiding. Of the actual gunfight itself we can read as reported by the Time News Service which, in part, says:  [...]"  "Captured CIA Agent Connected To False Flags Within Pakistan?" [02/22/11]   [3:54] "This is not only being reported by Press TV, it is being reported by multiple other news outlets that are not connected to the Iranian government. Was Raymond David a false flag operative? [...]"  Note:  More   

Update: "American Held In Pakistan Is Acting CIA Station Chief" [02/21/11] "A British and a Pakistani newspaper have confirmed that an American diplomat, who is being held in Pakistan for killing two armed men in Lahore, is in reality an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency. On January 25, former US Special Forces member Raymond Allen Davis (note: this may not be his real name) used an unregistered Glock semi-automatic pistol to shoot dead two passengers on a motorcycle, who he says tried to assault him while he was driving his car in Pakistan’s second largest city. Witnesses say Davis shot dead the one of the two men by firing ten shots from inside his vehicle, before stepping outside to shoot the second man as he was running away from the scene of the crime. Pakistani authorities say Davis’ claim to self-defense is discredited by the fact that the second man’s body was found almost 10 meters away from the motorcycle, bearing bullet wounds in his back. A third individual was struck and run over by a car carrying several armed Americans, whom Pakistanis say were also CIA operatives. The latter have since returned to the United States, according to Pakistani officials. Soon after Davis’ arrest, US President Barack Obama insisted that Pakistani authorities had illegally captured a “US consulate worker” of an “administrative and technical” capacity, attached to the US consulate in Lahore. But British broadsheet The Guardian has now confirmed that, according to information supplied by knowledgeable individuals in the US and Pakistan, Davis, 36, is “beyond a shadow of a doubt” an employee of the CIA. The paper also states that several US media outlets are aware of Davis’ intelligence capacity, but have refrained from revealing it under pressure from the US government. Meanwhile,  [...]"  Related:   Commentary: "Raymond A. Davis is not Raymond A. Davis: American terrorism is a plague on the world" [02/21/11] "Christopher King considers the case of “Raymond A. Davis”, the US citizen who murdered two Pakistanis in Lahore. He argues that Washington’s insistence that "Davis" should get away with the murders derives from its fear that he would expose illegal, undercover US activities in Pakistan. [...]"  See: Update: "Kerry Heads To Pakistan Over US Gunman" [02/15/11] below for all related background for this dynamic.

"Why Pakistan Cannot Release the Man Who Calls Himself Raymond Davis" [02/21/11] "The US, never famous for its diplomacy (The Ugly American, which made that point more than half a century ago, became a best seller and a very successful movie, starring Marlon Brando), seems to have discovered fresh depths to its strong-arm, coercive diplomacy. The mere fact that no less a personage than the US President has asked that this low-ranked person be granted absolute immunity, is indicative of the US desperation to get him him out of Pakistan and its court system. One Western journalist has referred to this incident as the "biggest intelligence fiasco since the downing of a U-2 by the erstwhile USSR in 1962." Obviously, the apprehension is that were he to be tried and convicted in Pakistan and handed a lengthy prison, or even a death sentence, Davis might "spill the beans" and that, were he to do so, those Wikileaks cables could pale into insignificance! [...]"  Related: See above. 

Update: "Kerry Heads To Pakistan Over US Gunman" [02/15/11] "Senator John Kerry is to visit Pakistan on a mission to resolve a diplomatic row over a US official accused of murdering two Pakistanis. [...]"    Related: "Obama calls for release of U.S. prisoner in Pakistan: Taliban warn it would punish any move to release Davis" " ... U.S. Senator John Kerry, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and member of President Barack Obama's Democratic Party, was to meet Pakistani officials on Wednesday to try to resolve the crisis. He told a news conference in Lahore the United States Department of Justice would launch a criminal investigation and that Washington was deeply sorry about the deaths and that its position on the Davis case was not an expression of "any kind of arrogance on our part." [...]"  Note: Uh, yes it is. |  "U.S.-Pakistan Row Intensifies" [02/14/11] "The U.S. canceled talks in Washington involving Pakistan due to an escalating diplomatic row over the detention last month of an American employed by the U.S. government who shot dead two armed men. A U.S. State Department statement Sunday said the high-level meeting involving Pakistan, Afghanistan and the U.S. was called off "in light of the political changes in Pakistan." Pakistan's government Friday announced cabinet changes that removed Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the country's former foreign minister, from his post. But a senior Pakistan foreign ministry official said Washington's cancellation of the meeting was intended to pressure Pakistan to release the U.S. government employee. [...]" Commentary: "The Two Men Gunned Down by U.S. National Raymond Davis Were Working for ISI" [02/14/11] "The two men gunned down by US national Raymond Davis in Lahore last month were working for ISI which was tailing the American because he was spying and “encroaching on their turf”, according to a media report. The two men were sent to track Davis by the ISI, which believed that he had crossed “a red line” and needed to be followed, four unnamed Pakistani officials were quoted as saying by ABC News. The men Davis shot had been following him for at least two hours and recorded some of his movements on their cell phone cameras, one of the Pakistani officials said. In late January, Davis was asked to leave an area of Lahore restricted by the military, the officials said. Davis’ cell phone was tracked and some of his calls were made to the Waziristan tribal area, where the Pakistani Taliban and a dozen other militant groups have a safe haven, one official said. Pakistani intelligence officials saw Davis as a threat who was “encroaching on their turf,” the official was quoted as saying. [...]"    Related: "Pakistanis Keep American Despite U.S. Pressure" [02/12/11] "The U.S. wanted Davis released before his court appearance this morning, but the court said he would remain detained for two more weeks. The U.S. has requested Davis be treated well, but the court sent him from a relatively comfortable police station into a crowded jail. And the U.S. continues to argue Davis acted in self defense, but the Lahore police chief today accused Davis of "intentional and cold-blooded murder." After the court's decision today, Carmela Conroy, the U.S. Consul General in Lahore, said that the Jan. 25 incident was a tragedy, and extended her sympathy to the family of the men killed, but said that Davis is "entitled to full immunity from prosecution" as a member of the U.S. Embassy staff in Islamabad.  [...]"  "How Pakistan Could Be Made To Pay For An American Killer" "As Pakistan has continued to refuse to accommodate Washington's request, so the arm-twisting has increased with veiled warnings about the possible impact on American aid to Islamabad and the possible cancellation of a meeting planned for next month between President Asif Ali Zardari and Barack Obama. On Thursday, Pakistan's ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, was forced to deny a report that US national security adviser Tom Donilon had threatened to expel him from the country if Mr. Davis was not released. But Pakistani politicians find themselves in a difficult position. While they do not wish to lose out on the billions of dollars of US military and non-military aid, they do not dare antagonise a Pakistani public that is increasingly anti-American by being seen to give in to US demands. Most political parties favour Mr. Davis being tried in Pakistan and yesterday morning in Karachi, protesters from an Islamist party burned a US flag and called for him to be hanged. "The Pakistani government is really in the soup," said Hasan-Askari Rizvi, a political and strategic analyst. "They should have settled the matter of his diplomatic immunity within a day. But now the political parties have jumped in and the courts have jumped in. If they release him now, they will face a lot of opposition in the streets."  Much remains unclear about the incident and the precise role held at the consulate by Mr. Davis, who many believe is an intelligence operative. Public records reveal he and his wife own a Las Vegas-registered company called Hyperion Protective Services.  [...]"  "What was Raymond Davis Up To In Pakistan?" [02/11/11] "The mystery surrounding Raymond A. Davis, the American former Special Forces operative jailed in Lahore, Pakistan for the murder of two young motorcyclists, and his funky “security” company, Hyperion-Protective Consultants LLC, in the US continues to grow. When Davis was arrested in the immediate aftermath of the double slaying in a busy business section of Lahore, after he had fatally shot two men in the back, claiming that he feared they might be threatening to rob him, police found a suspicious array of items include a Glock handgun, a flashlight that attaches to a headband, and a pocket telescope. Also found by police in Davis’s car, were a large number of cell phones, including at least one satellite phone, a collection of batteries, bucketloads of bullets, both for the Glock and a Beretta allegedly used by Davis to kill the two motorcyclists in his pinpoint shots through his front windshield, and a load of M-16 shells. The US, which seems to really want this guy out of Pakistani hands, is reportedly threatening to cut off financial assistance to Pakistan and to cancel a planned visit by President Obama if Davis is not released. [...]"