American kills two ‘robbers’, aide’s car crushes another to death

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American kills two ‘robbers’, aide’s car crushes another to death

Friday January 28, 2011

LAHORE: Car of a US consulate worker is parked at Anarkali Police Station after 3 people were killed due to firing by the US consulate worker in Lahore. APP

LAHORE: The US Consulate’s Technical Adviser, Raymond Davis, shot dead two young men in a dramatic way in ‘self-defence’, while a vehicle reaching the crime scene as backup ran over a motorcyclist at the Qartaba Chowk in the Lytton Road police precincts on Thursday afternoon.
Police shifted the diplomat to the US Consulate despite violent protests by the citizens. Police registered a case against Davis after a protest in front of the Lytton Road police station for murder under Section 302. A police statement, however, bought the version of Davis, saying the he had killed the two men who had pointed a gun at him in self-defence. Civil Lines Police SP Omar Saeed claimed that apparently both deceased were robbers, as two 30-bore pistols were recovered from their custody. However, conflicting stories emerged and nobody was certain as to why the two young men were shot dead. Many citizens carry licensed weapons and mere recovery of weapons did not prove that the deceased were robbers.

On the other hand, some police investigators say the deceased might be some fanatics, who wanted to target the foreigner, but fell victim to his shooting after missing the target. A police investigator, requesting anonymity, alleged that the accused US Consulate official appeared to be a trigger-happy person, who opened indiscriminate fire just over suspicion.

One alleged robber died on the spot and the other succumbed to injuries at the Services Hospital, Lahore. The injured motorcyclist was also rushed to the same hospital in a critical condition, but could not survive due to excessive bleeding.

One of the alleged robbers was identified as Faizan Haider, 24, a resident of Al-Madad Park Colony, Ravi Road, Lahore, while the other was identified as Faheem, a resident of the same area. The bike-rider killed by the speeding US Consulate vehicle was identified as Ubaidur Rehman, a resident of A-Block, Gulshan-e-Ravi, Lahore.

Eyewitnesses said a speeding white-coloured Honda Civic car, bearing number LEC-5545, reached Qartaba Chowk (Mozang Chungi), and had to stop at the red traffic signal at around 2:30 pm. In the meantime, two young men riding a black Honda 125 motorcycle, allegedly chasing the car, came in front of it. According to a police official, as one of the motorcyclists tried to whip out his pistol, the US Consulate official opened indiscriminate fire on them from inside the car. As a result, both fell on the road in a pool of blood. The alleged killer came out of his car, took their pictures and made a movie on his cell phone. In the meantime, the official through a wireless set called a backup squad. The incident resulted in severe traffic jam and minutes after the incident, at around 2:40 pm, the backup cruiser bearing a ‘fake number plate’, LZN-6970, reached the spot. After seeing the traffic jam, the driver of the backup vehicle violated one-way by crossing the median and hit a motorcyclist. The mob tried to capture the accused US official, but he along with the backup vehicle managed to flee the scene. Rescue 1122 reached the spot and shifted the injured people to the Services Hospital, where all three died.

Police, after being informed by a traffic warden, chased the US official’s car and managed to seize it near Old Anarkali. The US official was taken to the police station along with his car and later shifted to the US Consulate by DSP Safdar Raza Kazmi. However, the backup vehicle could not be seized.

Doctors at the Services Hospital told the media that one of the accused received four bullets, three at back and one on front, while the other received eight bullets in his chest and other parts of the body. The bodies were removed to morgue for autopsy.

According to the family sources, one of the deceased, identified as Faizan Haider, was running a mobile shop in Kasurpura, Lahore. His sister told the media that her brother Kamran was killed on Moharram 9 (Dec 16, 2010) over some unknown issue and Faizan was pursuing the case. On Thursday, she added, Faizan left home to appear in the court, along with his friend, Faheem. She claimed that Faizan had a licensed pistol and he used to keep it for self-protection as the killers of her brother were threatening him of dire consequences for pursuing the case.

Following the incident, a large number of motorists and locals gathered outside Old Anarkali police station and blocked the road by burning tyres. They chanted slogans against the police and demanded immediate arrest of the accused US official.

SP Security Faisal Rana said it had been confirmed that the US Consulate official had withdrawn money from an ATM before the incident. He said it also implied that the motorcyclists were chasing the US Consulate official.

A question arises here as to why Davis did not contact 15 Police Emergency, and called his men, who rushed to the spot and crushed an innocent youth under the wheels of their vehicle. Similarly, it could not be ascertained as to why he captured the youths lying on the road with multiple bullet wounds in his cell phone before making an attempt to escape from the scene.

Ironically, the police did not bother to verify the credentials of the victims and bluntly seconded the American’s version and declared them robbers. The police declared the deceased robbers after the recovery of a weapon from Faizan’s possession. Many citizens have old enmities and carry weapons for self-defence. Whether the police will declare all such citizens as robbers who carry their licensed weapons for their protection?

Similarly, the police could not find any witness to testify that the bike riders had fired shots at Davis, who then retaliated and killed them. Capital City Police Officer Aslam Tareen told the media that though diplomats enjoy some exemptions in certain conditions, a case would be registered after receiving an application from the deceased’s families. He further said if nobody would submit an application, the police would itself register a case. The CCPO said it would be premature to say that the deceased were robbers and the facts would be revealed in further course of investigation.

Pakistan News Service - PakTribune

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‘Killer’ US envoy can benefit from Vienna Convention

Friday January 28, 2011

LAHORE: The US diplomat who claims to have shot two people dead in Lahore on Thursday only to defend himself in a robbery incident stands a good chance of avoiding prosecution under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (April 18, 1961), if one studies the past precedents in this context.
The American diplomat, Raymond Davis, is also being accused of trampling over another man while fleeing from the scene. According to the Vienna Convention of 1961, Pakistan has the right to ask the US to lift the accused diplomat’s immunity, but history reveals that the principles laid down in this conference nearly half a century ago have come to the rescue of at least half a dozen world envoys, who were found guilty of killing or injuring ordinary people in various incidents. These incidents have mostly been traffic-related though.

Although, the history of diplomatic immunity dates back to 1709 when the British Parliament had first granted this privilege to foreign ambassadors, the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations has saved various culpable envoys from prosecution or lawsuits in countries where they were stationed.

To cite a few examples, a Russian diplomat posted in Ottawa (Canada) had rammed his car into two pedestrians in January 2001, killing one and seriously injuring the other. The Canadian government had requested that Russia to waive the diplomat named Andrei Knyazev’s immunity, but the request was refused. However, Knyazev was subsequently prosecuted in Russia for involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to four years in prison.

An American Consul General, Douglas Kent, was involved in a car accident in a Russian city on October 27, 1998, crippling a man called Alexander Kashin. Diplomat Kent was not prosecuted in the US, as an American Court of Appeals had ruled in August 2006 that since the Consul General was using his own vehicle for consular purposes, he could not be sued civilly.

In yet another episode, a Romanian Charge d’Affaires in Singapore, Silviu Ionescu, was allegedly involved a drunk-driving hit-and-run accident in December 2009, that had resulted in the death of a 30-year-old man.

The Romanian diplomat had left Singapore for Romania three days after the accident. Though Romania did not waive his diplomatic immunity, criminal proceedings against him were conducted back home. He was formally charged with homicide by Romanian courts and remanded for 29 days.

Having sought an international arrest warrant against Ionescu, the Singapore government had argued that by reason of Article 39(2) of the Vienna Convention, envoy Ionescu was no longer protected by diplomatic immunity.

The guilty diplomat Ionescu was subsequently suspended from his post in February 2010. Meanwhile, a pedestrian who was hit in a fatal hit-and-run accident involving Romanian diplomat, had also gone on to sue the official for Singapore dollars 630,000.

On November 26, 2010, Ionescu was released from detention in Romania after being held in preventive custody at a prison in Bucharest for seven months, though he was not allowed to leave the country.

More recently, in January this year, Britain had asked India to waive off the diplomatic immunity for Anil Verma, a senior Indian diplomat accused of assaulting his wife, saying it does not tolerate envoys working in the UK breaking the law.

Verma, a third-ranked diplomat in the Indian High Commission, found himself in trouble when his injured wife Paromita was found screaming by neighbours on December 11 last year. When the police arrived, the 45-year-old Verma had claimed diplomatic immunity and eventually escaped action.

Verma, an Economic Minister in the Indian mission, was transferred to back to India with immediate effect. According to Daily Mail,” throughout their time over here, diplomat Anil would boast about his diplomatic immunity and he would tell his wife Paromita that no one could touch him because of it. He was shameless with it. He has been given so much power and he is abusing it. Paromita has gone into hiding and seriously fears that her safety and health are in jeopardy.”

Interestingly, the American double standards on the issue of diplomatic immunity can be gauged from the fact that while the Republic of Georgia had waived off the diplomatic immunity of one of its envoys to the US after he was found guilty of driving a car in a drunk state and killing a 16-year-old girl in January 1997, Washington DC had disallowed a similar request forwarded by Romania in December 2004 when a US soldier had killed a popular Romanian musician in Bucharest.

Republic of Georgia thus happens to be one of the few countries on the planet which are known to have waived off the diplomatic immunity of one of its diplomats posted in the US, after he was found guilty of driving a car in a drunken state and killing a 16-year-old girl in January 1997.

The deputy ambassador of the Republic of Georgia to the United States, Gueorgui Makharadze, had hit five people in January 1997, injuring four and killing one. Although the Georgian diplomat was released from custody initially, the US government had asked the Georgian government to waive his immunity.

The Georgian government acceded to the US request and diplomat Makharadze was tried and convicted of manslaughter. He was given a sentence from seven to 21 years in prison. However, after serving three years of his sentence, he was returned to his home country where he spent two more years in jail before being paroled.

On the contrary, an allegedly drunk US Marine stationed in the Romanian capital of Bucharest had collided with a taxi, killing the famous local musician Teo Peter on December 3, 2004. The marine, Christopher Van Goethem, had allegedly violated a traffic signal, which resulted in the collision of his car with the taxi carrying the Romanian rock star Teo Peter. Christopher had fled to Germany before charges could be laid against him.

The Romanian government had then requested the US government to lift the marine’s immunity, but to no avail. In a court-martial back home, the marine was acquitted of manslaughter and adultery, but was convicted of obstruction of justice.

It is worth mentioning that in the United States, if a person with immunity is alleged to have committed a crime or faces a civil lawsuit, the Department of State normally asks the home country to waive immunity of the alleged offender so that the complaint can be moved to the courts. If immunity is not waived, prosecution cannot be undertaken.

However, the Department of State still has the discretion to ask the diplomat to withdraw from her or his duties in the United States. In addition, the diplomat’s visas are often cancelled and his/her family members are barred from returning to the United States. Crimes committed by members of a diplomat’s family can also result in dismissal.

Abuse of diplomatic immunity was made more visible by media coverage in the early 1990s. The abuse spans a variety of activities, ranging from parking violations to more serious criminal behavior such as domestic abuse and rape.

In February 1995, the then New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani forgave $800,000 in parking tickets accumulated by foreign diplomat-probably as a gesture of goodwill towards the visiting diplomats.

Pakistan News Service - PakTribune

[Lady Macbeth]

Self defence?

Thats the biggest c*ck and bull story I have ever heard.

According to the ''untampered'' (which cant be said about the news coming out now) first investigative report done by the Anarkali Police Lahore, only ''one'' of the three deceased was carrying a gun, and no shots were fired from his gun whilst Raymond Davis (if thats his real name) fired 7.

[Lady Macbeth]

Secondly the story has been twisted in defense of the American.


1- Raymond Davis ran over the pedestrian first.

2- When the crowd started to gather, he tried to flee from the scene.

3- The two motorcyclists started to follow him in the hope that he would stop, and they can hold him until the police gets to the scene.

4- The two motor cyclists overtook the car Raymond was in at the next turn. Raymond fired at them wounding them both.

5- Wireless calls between Raymond and his cronies were intercepted by the police right after the incident where he started calling them for help as he was afraid the crowd (which was fast taking form of a mob) would get him. They rushed over to him and .......

Thats how it happened.

Trust the Americans to lie through their teeth.

*Iraq has WMDs?*

[Neo]

Originally Posted by Lady Macbeth

Self defence?

Thats the biggest c*ck and bull story I have ever heard.

According to the ''untampered'' (which cant be said about the news coming out now) first investigative report done by the Anarkali Police Lahore, only ''one'' of the three deceased was carrying a gun, and no shots were fired from his gun whilst Raymond Davis (if thats his real name) fired 7.

The whole investigation is a pr stunt, no action will be taken against Davis. After all he's an American and they own GoP.

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Lahore Shootings: As The Case Unfolds, The Mystery Deepens

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: As the US diplomatic machinery moved to calm a brewing storm over Thursday’s shooting incident in Lahore involving an official attached to its consulate, peculiar details are trickling in regarding the exact identity of the man.

US Ambassador Cameron Munter is learnt to have met Foreign Secretary Salman Basheer, requesting the federal government’s intervention in the case of US official Raymond Allen Davis, who gunned down two young motorcyclists near Lahore’s Qurtaba Chowk in apparent self-defence. The case is currently being handled by the Punjab government, and Davis has been remanded into police custody for six days, according to police officials, by a magistrate.

Munter, according to well-placed sources, is said to have brought up the Geneva Convention, under which diplomats are allowed diplomatic immunity. The provincial government has so far refused to bring the international protocol into play. Other diplomats are also learnt to have tried to contact the Punjab government.

The Foreign Office is learnt to have contacted the Punjab government requesting case details. There has also been a meeting between Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Interior Minister Rehman Malik regarding the matter. Gen. Kayani is said to have advised Malik to handle the matter with ‘extreme care’ given its sensitive nature. He also advised that, aside from the apparent diplomatic links, Davis’ military links should also be kept in mind as the case moves forward.

Also discussed was the law and order situation that could arise if Davis is granted immunity.

Who is Davis?

Meanwhile, intelligence data shows that Davis has visited Pakistan nine times since 2009.

According to records available with The Express Tribune, Allen Davis, aged 37, visited Pakistan for the first time on October 18, 2009, landing in Islamabad. His last entry into Pakistan was on January 20, 2011, when he landed in Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport.

Davis travelled using a regular passport, on which he had regular visit visas. There was no diplomatic passport.

Insiders say that Davis was performing duties as a technical advisor serving in the Intelligence and Security Wings of the US Embassy in Islamabad and the consulate in Lahore. He also made frequent visits to Karachi and Peshawar. The police are said to have recovered an identity card from Davis for the US’ Peshawar consulate.

Pakistani intelligence agencies have so far not reached any conclusion and had not submitted a report regarding the incident till the filing of this report. However, initial data suggests that police or other security/intelligence agencies had no record or intimation of Davis’ movement or participation in official events since he first arrived in Pakistan in 2009.

According to policy guidelines and security advisory issued by the Foreign and Interior Ministries, US officials are, for their own security, not meant to move around without informing security officials due to the terror threat in the country. The vehicle Davis was driving was locally-registered, and did not have diplomatic number plates.

Initial reports revolved around a possible looting attempt by the men on the motorcycles, to which Davis is said to have retaliated. Conversely, some reports rejected the robbery bid. However, it is unclear what would have provoked Davis to open fire.

A new angle to the incident, submitted in a statement by Davis himself, has it that the vehicle he was driving had had a minor collision with a Rickshaw a little before the incident. Therefore, if not a robbery, the two men could have chased the vehicle to argue with the driver.

Tristram Perry, the information officer of the US Consulate in Lahore, did not answer queries regarding Davis’ immunity, saying that he has been requested by Islamabad to not comment on the incident. “We are working with Pakistani authorities to determine the facts and work toward a resolution,” he said

FIRs against the deceased

Meanwhile, though it was initially reported that the two deceased motorcyclists had no criminal record, the police registered FIRs against them posthumously on Friday, police sources told The Express Tribune.

The complainants, Doctor Farzand and Sheharyar Malik, in a written application, state that the two had robbed them of their mobiles and cash just before the incident and were fleeing.

As evidence, the two have referred to phone logs of calls made to Rescue 1-5 about the incident right after it happened. The police say that two mobile phones were recovered from the deceased which matched the description of those the applicants had complained to 1-5 had been stolen.

However, the police had also shown the recovery of foreign currency from the deceased, which they say had also been looted. On the other hand, there is yet to be a complaint regarding the theft of foreign currency on the day of the incident.

In the FIR registered against Davis, the police have also included charges of carrying an illegal weapon – a Glock pistol and two magazines. The police also recovered a digital camera, a phone tracker with a charger.

Conversely, the police so far have no information about the other vehicle that came to rescue Davis and crushed a motorcyclist – Ibadullah – in the process. After killing the man, the vehicle fled from the scene. Davis did not disclose who was heading to his rescue, but did tell the police that, after the incident, he telephoned his Regional Security Officer who might have sent some officials for his rescue.

A police officer, on condition of anonymity, said that they had, through the Lahore Capital City Police Officer, sent a formal request to Pakistan’s foreign office to contact the US Consulate to identify those in the vehicle for their arrest.

The security of the US consulate has meanwhile been increased in light of increasing protests against the incident, The Express Tribune has learnt.

Lahore Shootings: As The Case Unfolds, The Mystery Deepens | PKKH.tv

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Pakistan rebuffs call for US gunman's quick release Nasir Jaffry
January 30, 2011

Pakistan on Sunday rebuffed a call from the United States for the immediate release of an American man who shot dead two men in a Lahore street, saying its legal process must be respected.

The US embassy had claimed diplomatic immunity on behalf of Raymond Davis, previously described as a consulate employee, who is under investigation on double murder charges after shooting dead the two motorcyclists this week.

"This matter is sub judice in a court of law and the legal process should be respected," Pakistani foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said in a statement, adding that a report was awaited from Punjab police.

Advertisement: Story continues below Davis, who has been held at a Lahore police station since the incident, appeared before a magistrate's court Friday and said he had fired in self-defence. He was remanded into police custody for six days.

On Saturday, two days after the deadly shooting, the US embassy in Islamabad released a statement saying he had diplomatic status and was therefore being detained unlawfully.

"When detained, the US diplomat identified himself to police as a diplomat and repeatedly requested immunity under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations," it said.

"Local police and senior authorities failed to observe their legal obligation to verify his status with either the US consulate general in Lahore or the US embassy in Islamabad.

"Furthermore, the diplomat was formally arrested and remanded into custody, which is a violation of international norms and the Vienna Convention, to which Pakistan is a signatory."

The statement said the man had a diplomatic passport and a visa for Pakistan valid until June 2012, and added that he had acted in self-defence when two armed men on motorcycles tried to rob him.

"The diplomat had every reason to believe that the armed men meant him bodily harm. Minutes earlier, the two men, who had criminal backgrounds, had robbed money and valuables at gunpoint from a Pakistani citizen in the same area," it said.

Provincial law minister Rana Sanaullah said that the US should respect Pakistan's courts and should raise the issue of diplomatic immunity there.

"The Punjab government respects the sentiments of the Pakistani public and wants to fulfil legal requirements," he told AFP in Lahore.

US ambassador Cameron Munter telephoned Pakistan Muslim League (N) chief Nawaz Sharif on Saturday and sought his help to secure Davis's release, Sharif's spokesman Pervaiz Rashid said.

Sharif, whose PML(N) rules the politically important Punjab province, also told the ambassador that the matter was to be handled by the court, he said.

Police said Friday that two handguns had been found close to the victims' bodies, but that they so far appeared to have no previous criminal record.

Imran Haider, the elder brother of one of the motorcyclists, 22-year-old Faizan Haider, claimed his brother only carried a pistol for protection and insisted the gun was licensed.

A third Pakistani was crushed to death by a consulate car that went to help Davis following the shooting in a busy street in the eastern city.

Punjab provincial law minister Rana Sanaullah has said that American influence would not be allowed to affect the criminal proceedings.

Pakistan is a vital US ally in the American-led "war on terror".

The US embassy said it regretted that "this incident resulted in loss of life" and said: "We greatly value the cooperation and partnership between Pakistan and the United States, which is vital to the interests of both countries."

The incident sparked small protests across Pakistan on Friday, a sign of the anti-American sentiment that is already running high partly because of a covert US drone campaign in the northwest tribal areas that has provoked deadly revenge attacks by militants.

Pakistan rebuffs call for US gunman's quick release

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whats happening in our country.........

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AP sources: Pakistan likely to release US diplomat


WASHINGTON (AP) — Pakistani officials are indicating that a U.S. diplomat charged with murder in Pakistan may soon be released.

Two Pakistani officials in the United States told The Associated Press on Friday they expect Davis to be free in days, once a Pakistani court goes over documents U.S. officials have submitted to prove his diplomatic status. The Pakistani officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter. U.S. officials say Raymond Davis, who works at the consulate in Lahore, acted in self-defense in shooting and killing two armed men who approached him on the street after robbing someone else.

Publicly, Pakistani officials have avoided definitive statements on whether Davis qualifies for diplomatic immunity, saying his fate is up to the court. But the officials who spoke to AP said their government had to let the case proceed until the U.S. produced the necessary documents on Davis' status. They said Pakistani police believed the evidence supported Davis' story.

Davis was arrested soon after the Jan. 27 shootings. He made a brief appearance in court Thursday, and his next appearance is set for Feb. 11.

Besides the two men who were shot dead, a bystander was killed when he was struck by an American car rushing to the scene to help Davis.

The Associated Press: AP sources: Pakistan likely to release US diplomat

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Pak Envoy Hussain Haqqani rushes to Islamabad to Help Save Raymond Davis

February 10, 2011

ISLAMABAD: Is Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, Hussain Haqqani on his way to Pakistan with an “amicable solution” to help and save Pak-US relations from deteriorating further because of the double murderer Raymond Davis’ case? It is not unusual for ambassadors to consult their governments and carry messages on such grave matters.

“This should be the father of all solutions because the Foreign Office here has already sent the facts about Davis as they really are, to the prime minister, even they might not be as favourable as President Zardari would like,” said sources when asked about Haqqani’s arrival.

They added that it was not surprising that Haqqani would visit Pakistan because bilateral relations between the two countries have reached near breaking point and the US means business when they are saying, “Come back and talk to us when you have freed Davis as right now we are not interested in any other issue”.

The sources pointed to remarks by Representative John Kline, a Republican from Minnesota who on arrival in Washington after his visit to Pakistan said that, “It is imperative that they (Pakistan) release him and there is certainly the possibility that there would be repercussions if they don’t. It’s entirely possible that a member of Congress would come down and offer an amendment to cut funding for Pakistan based on their detaining Davis. My guess is there would be a lot of support for such an amendment, frankly, because of the outrage of detaining an American with diplomatic immunity.”

Interestingly, Kline addresses the US citizen as Mr Davis unlike the State Department and US Embassy who are reluctant to find a name for the killer. Apart from Haqqani, The News has learnt that the family of Raymond Davis, accused of double murder, has decided to come to Pakistan and visit him after assurance by the Pakistan government that they would facilitate such a visit.

When questioned, Courtney Beale, spokesperson at the US Embassy assured that she would come back with a comment. The News is still waiting for the US version.

According to diplomatic sources in Washington the wife and two teenaged children of Davis approached Pakistan’s embassy in Washington to apply for visas to visit Pakistan. The Davis family had travelled from Florida to Washington and besides Davis’ wife there is a teenaged boy and girl.

Sources maintain that they have been guided by the embassy that they were free to travel to Islamabad and receive visas on arrival. This facilitation has been availed of by many Americans including Americans of Pakistani origin in the past.

“However, as yet the family is undecided about travelling to Pakistan and the recent PIA situation is of no help either,” say our sources. The Foreign Office could not confirm either the arrival of Haqqani or Mrs Davis.

According to information sent to The News from PakNationlists, the wife of Davis told 9News, a local TV station in Colorado that her husband had given her a name and telephone number in case anything happened to him.

“The name is that of a CIA spokesperson and the number is in Washington, DC. Calls to that number were not returned Wednesday,” reported The Denver Post on February 2, 2011.

According to public information, PakNationalists say that, Raymond Allen Davis (code-name: RAD), is an ‘official’ of the US embassy Islamabad or the US Consulate Lahore, whose record shows experience in the US Military Special Forces, is not a real diplomat of the United States of America. Indeed, RAD is a fake American diplomat. In reality, he is a managing member of the Hyperion Protective Services (HPS), LLC, a private security business of only two persons (Mr RAD & Mrs RAD) based in Las Vegas, Nevada (head office); and Highlands Ranch, Colorado (branch office). Many news media reports have linked Mr Davis to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He was reportedly working in Pakistan as a special operations, intelligence and security contractor of CIA before the Punjab police arrested him on 27 January 2011, in Lahore, Pakistan, for double murder. CIA has declined to comment on the [RAD] case

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