CIA Agent Caught Red-Handed Aiding Pakistani Terrorism?
Arben Nelku <[email protected]>
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CIA Agent Caught Red-Handed Aiding Pakistani Terrorism? CNN notes: News that the American accused of killing two Pakistani men is a CIA contractor has intensified an already highly charged situation in Pakistan. >"Raymond Davis is a CIA Guy," read the headline in the Daily Times newspaper >Tuesday. >*** >Davis was jailed January 27 after fatally shooting two men who pulled up to >him on a motorcycle in a bustling Lahore neighborhood. >*** >The 36-year-old Davis is a former member of the U.S. 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. He was assigned to >Pakistan in late 2009. He was living with other security personnel at a >safehouse in Lahore before the shooting incident. >On Monday, a U.S. government official also said that Davis was a CIA contractor >providing security for CIA officers. The U.S. at first falsely claimed that Davis was a diplomat with the State Department and should therefore be granted diplomatic immunity: Despite the revelation of Davis' true line of work, U.S. officials on Monday renewed their argument that he has diplomatic immunity and must be released. *** > >Before Monday, U.S. officials had described Davis only as an employee who was >attached to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad and who was working at the U.S. >Consulate in Lahore at the time of the shootings.But the deeper story is that >Davis allegedly actively aided and abetted terrorism. As CNN notes: Some newspapers cited unnamed sources to link Davis with "terrorist activity" and the Pakistani Taliban. >"CIA agent Davis had ties with local militants," read the headline in The >Express Tribune. >The Tribune quoted an unnamed "senior police official" as saying Davis was >suspected in masterminding terrorist activity. >"His close ties with the TTP (The Pakistani Taliban) were revealed during >the investigations," the paper quoted the police official as saying. "Davis >was instrumental in recruiting young people from Punjab for the Taliban to >fuel the insurgency."Indeed, one of South Asia 's largest news agencies (ANI) >reports that - according to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service - Davis was >giving nuclear and biowarfare materials to Al-Qaeda: 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. >Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is warning that the situation on >the sub-continent has turned "grave" as it appears that open warfare is about >to break out between Pakistan and the United States, The European Union Times >reports. >The SVR warned in its report that the apprehension of 36-year-old Davis, who >shot dead two Pakistani men in Lahore last month, had fuelled this crisis. > >According to the report, the combat skills exhibited by Davis, along with >documentation taken from him after his arrest, prove that he is a member of >US' TF373 black operations unit currently operating in the Afghan War Theatre >and Pakistan's tribal areas, the paper said. >While the US insists that Davis is one of their diplomats, and the two men he >killed were robbers, Pakistan says that the duo were ISI agents sent to follow >him after it was discovered that he 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's 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 warned is just months away from collapse," the paper added.For background see this, this, thisand this.