Cia Contractor Killed Two in Pakistan

In August 2008, CIA Deputy Chief Stephen Kappes flew to Islamabad with evidence suggesting that the ISI had planned the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul that killed 54 people. The ISI, in turn, complained that the US had come with unrealistic expectations and an aggressive stance. The CIA contractor, who was released from prison in Pakistan in January after shooting two people and paying blood money to their families, has been arrested in Colorado, ABC television reported Sunday. After the incident, several Pakistani officials told ABC News that the two men killed by Davis worked for Inter-Services Intelligence and were following Davis for spying and crossing a “red line.” This was initially denied by the United States. Official. [47] The Express Tribune also reported that the two dead motorcyclists were intelligence officials, citing a Pakistani security official who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media. [48] Pakistani officials claimed that Davis traveled to the federally administered tribal areas and met with some people without the ISI`s consent and was therefore prosecuted for the purpose of intimidating him. [49] Davis claimed that the men he shot were trying to rob him, but police delayed the registration of cases against Haider and Shamshad. [50] But Saeed insisted that night that he was not to blame for the dead. The killers were foreigners, he told the crowd, a group of assassins with a secret program to destabilize Pakistan and steal its nuclear arsenal. With dramatic flowering, he said he knew exactly who had killed the men. Since Davis was in prison, Munter argued that it was important to immediately go to the head of the I.S.I. at that time, Lt.

Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, to strike a deal. The United States would admit that Davis worked for the CIA, and Davis would be quietly driven out of the country never to return. But the CIA opposed it. Davis had spied on a militant group with close ties to the I. S.I., and the CIA refused to acknowledge it. Senior CIA officials feared that I.S.I. Davis` call for clemency would doom him to failure.

He could be killed in prison before the Obama administration can pressure Islamabad to release him on the grounds that he is a foreign diplomat immune to local laws – even those prohibiting murder. On the day of Davis` arrest, CIA station chief Munter said a decision had been made to block the Pakistanis. Don`t make a deal, he warned, adding that Pakistan is the enemy. A lawyer representing the family of Faizan Haider, one of those killed, told the BBC that the “blood money” deal was reached without his knowledge and that he was in detention when it was finalised. A CIA contractor, a double murder under a hail of bullets on a crowded Pakistani street and a diplomatic crisis that has set US-Pakistan relations back several years. Pasha ordered I.S.I. activists in Lahore to meet with the families of the three men killed in the January episode and negotiate a deal. Some of the relatives initially resisted, but the I.S.I.

negotiators were not about to let the talks fail. After weeks of talks, the parties agreed on a total of 200 million Pakistani rupees, or about $2.34 million, to offer a “pardon” to the imprisoned CIA officer. Davis claims he has never killed a man before, writing, “Fortunately, the 10 shots I fired found their intended targets.” More than two years later, the Raymond Davis episode has been largely forgotten in the United States. He was immediately overshadowed by the dramatic raid months later in which Osama bin Laden was killed – in a footnote in the sad narrative of America`s relationship with Pakistan. But dozens of interviews conducted over several months with government officials and intelligence agents in Pakistan and the United States tell a different story: that the real breakdown of the relationship was triggered by the flood of bullets that Davis unleashed on the afternoon of the 27th century. It was triggered in January 2011 and exacerbated by a series of misguided decisions in the days and weeks that followed. In Pakistan, it is the Davis affair, more than bin Laden`s raid, that is still being discussed in the country`s bazaars and crowded corridors. U.S.

officials reiterated concern about Kot Lakhpat prison in Lahore, where Davis is being held, saying he had been transferred to a separate section of the prison, that guards` weapons had been removed for fear that they would kill him, and that the prisoners had already been killed by guards. They are also concerned that protesters are storming the prison or that it may be poisoned and that dogs have been used to taste or smell food for poison. .