Raymond Davis Pakistan Shooting Charges Spark Conspiracy Theories

GlobalPost:

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The killing of two Pakistanis by an American citizen in the eastern city of Lahore late last month may have turned into a nightmare for U.S.-Pakistani relations, but it is shaping up as a field day for Pakistan's conspiracy theorists.

More than three weeks after Raymond Davis, 36, shot and killed two local men in what U.S. officials described as an act of self-defense, many questions remain unanswered about the circumstances of the incident, but the gaps have been filled eagerly by the vibrant Pakistani media.

Elaborating complex theories involving nefarious actors to explain the day's events has always been a sort of national pastime in Pakistan, but the phenomenon has ballooned with the advent of countless new newspapers, television channels and news websites in recent years.

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Comments

[John Kirch]

08:50 PM on 03/05/2011

Another interesting aspect of this is whether the news media failed its readers when it initially withheld information about Davis's CIA connection. http://mediapoliticsinperspective.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/should-the-media-out-a-cia-agent/

[statementOfIncensed]

04:34 AM on 02/26/2011

Raymond Davis had a digital camera full of photos of restricted areas. That's what this is actually about. And the ISI's trying to pin their own activities on him.

[xMoonWalkerx]

01:35 AM on 02/26/2011

Their country is going down the toilet but the people there find the time to spin conspiracy theories.

[statementOfIncensed]

04:23 AM on 02/26/2011

Sound familiar?

[PerotVentuSheehCarte]

03:20 PM on 02/25/2011

!!! "Conspiracy Theories" !!!

no more drone murder
Free Dr Aafia Siddiqui

[Meesterclean]

12:14 PM on 02/25/2011

Other sites are reporting differently.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/cia-spy-davis-giving-nuclear-bomb-material-al-20110219-224833-452.html

[statementOfIncensed]

04:26 AM on 02/26/2011

"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,"

Do you put as much stock in CIA press releases? As if intelligence agencies are in the business of dutifully reporting the god's honest truth or something.

[Meesterclean]

12:38 PM on 02/26/2011

This is coming from different sources. Russia as well. I trust people more whom I have not yet caught in a lie. Seeing that CIA David Headley was caught red handed plotting, training, financing, supplying weapons, drugs, communications devices, and paying the young men's families to do Mumbai says a lot. Seeing that Rumsfeld gave orders to let OBL go, seeing that Cheneythreatened the 911Commission not to go too far in their investigations, seeing that there is a 3000 man army led by the CIA in Pakistan, seeing that Bhutto's life was taken by forces trained with American style training, it makes one question the Americans.

[Meesterclean]

12:10 PM on 02/25/2011

I put up a link that is much more detailed and accurate than this article.

By omitting this story, if you try to do so, I would consider it a crime against humanity.

[xMoonWalkerx]

01:37 AM on 02/26/2011

Huh? Haha

[Meesterclean]

01:34 AM on 02/27/2011

Why do you think I wrote this?

[statementOfIncensed]

04:26 AM on 02/26/2011

Do you work for the ISI? What gives man?

[Meesterclean]

12:06 PM on 02/25/2011

You cannot have a story about "conspiracy theories" and then expect people not to talk about them.

[Meesterclean]

12:05 PM on 02/25/2011

The EU Times and Yahoo news are reporting that Davis was caught with outrageous incriminating evidence that he was supplying nuclear and bioweapons material to Al Qaeda.

Was this to help justify our illegal wars or launch more?

What does this mean about the official story about 911?

[Meesterclean]

11:59 AM on 02/25/2011

For accurate information:

http://www.eutimes.net/2011/02/cia-spy-captured-giving-nuclear-bomb-to-terrorists/

[xMoonWalkerx]

01:21 AM on 02/26/2011

Hahaha..an entertaining read. Never knew that Osama bin laden was actually a CIA guy called "Tim Osman".

[statementOfIncensed]

11:44 AM on 02/25/2011

The ISI reports an american operation to provide fissile material to Al Qaeda. I totally take the ISI's word at face value on this. They're just a bunch of honest, forthright, straight forward guys right? Call me old fashioned, but if you can't trust the ISI's and the CIA's of the world, who can you trust? Whatever would happen if, God Forbid, Intelligence services gave disinformation? No one would ever trust that most trusted pillar of community, the spy.

[Ronju01]

09:55 AM on 02/25/2011

Indian newspapers reported that David was involved in helping a tero outfit to plant devices close to Pak Army installations.

[fauker1923]

09:51 AM on 02/25/2011

hey Ray,

hope you make it home ok. Heard you had a bad couple of days. Heard you were a spy. heard you were the reason India would nuke Pakistan. well maybe not everything I heard is true.

Hope you make it home ok

[MaToLa]

10:11 PM on 02/24/2011

This article is worthless. First, and only, the term agent is applied to foreign nationals on the CIA's doll. The term officer applies to US citizens under the employ of the CIA. Terms and facts ought to be understand before writing drivel.

[Rip Harvest]

06:31 PM on 02/24/2011

Seems this article uses the term "Conspiracy Theories" to denigrate what is actually known at this time.

It is the Pakistani Police, not just the media coverage, reporting what was recovered in Davis's automobile. Based on the evidence found in the Davis's car and on his person (cell phone), the Punjab government had asked for instituting a case of espionage against Davis. Police prosecutors had recommended trying Davis for spying on the basis of “strong evidence” against him. However, the federal government’s consent was necessary (and the espionage case was denied) because Davis claims to be a member of the US diplomatic mission. The prosecutors were denied their chance.

We have now learned that Raymond Davis, while acting on behalf of the United States, was providing "nuclear fissile material" and "biological agents" to Al Qaeda operatives. According to Russia's primary external intelligence agency, the SVR, the materials "are to be used against the United States itself in order to ignite an all-out war to re-establish the West's hegemony over a Global economy..."

After learning that the United States is providing a "nuclear fissile material" and "biological agents" to Al Qaeda operatives for the next false flag, those following the issue have no idea whether their foreknowledge will actually prevent this attack from happening.

It is time to abandon softball techniques in reporting and demand to get to the bottom of this activity. Our own safety is now depending up it.

[Lorindol]

07:14 PM on 02/24/2011

Source?

[Rip Harvest]

11:29 PM on 02/24/2011

Sources:

Here is the U.S. Embassy Spokesperson, Courtney Beale, using the term "Conspiracy Theory" to help downplay the possibility of a jailbreak...

http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=4073&Cat=13&dt=2/19/2011

- like the jailbreak that happened in Iraq to free British provocateurs:

http://redactednews.blogspot.com/2011/02/cia-spy-davis-was-giving-nuclear-bomb.html

Yahoo with nuclear bomb material (also picked up by redacted news)

http://in.news.yahoo.com/cia-spy-davis-giving-nuclear-bomb-material-al-20110219-224833-452.html?submitter=nokilli

Comments by Zaid Hamid, Defense Analyst & Security Consultant, about Davis's connection to false flags within Pakistan:

http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com/2011/02/captured-cia-agent-connected-to-false.html

Punjab's request for trying Davis declined. "In a letter to the federal government, the provincial authorities had recommended registration of an espionage case":

http://tribune.com.pk/story/119133/punjabs-request-for-trying-davis-declined/

Concerning Davis's immunity:

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/461

"a postmortem indicated he was hit three times in the front and twice in the back."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/20/cia-agent-lahore-civilian-deaths

The point I am trying to make is that this story should be splayed large in the public spotlight and scrutinized - I'd like to see the SRV report, for example.

The FBI: 100% chance of a WMD attack within the U.S.

http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/zawahiri-weapons-mass-destruction/2011/02/14/id/386055

[LAThinker]

08:07 PM on 02/24/2011

You forgot liitle green men never forget little green men!