The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) issued a statement demanding that the government of Pakistan execute U.S. government contractor Raymond Davis or turn him over to the TTP for judgment. Davis, a contract security officer for the CIA, has been in Pakistani custody since a Jan. 27 incident in which he shot two men who reportedly pointed a pistol at him in an apparent robbery attempt.
Pakistani officials have corroborated Davis' version of events and, according to their preliminary report, Davis appears to have acted in self-defense. From a tactical perspective, the incident appears to have been (in tactical security parlance) a "good shoot," but the matter has been taken out of the tactical realm and has become mired in transnational politics and Pakistani public sentiment. Whether the shooting was justified or not, Davis has now become a pawn in a larger game being played out between the United States and Pakistan.
When one considers the way similar periods of tension between the Pakistanis and Americans have unfolded in the past, it is not unreasonable to conclude that as this current period plays out, it could have larger consequences for Davis and for American diplomatic facilities and commercial interests in Pakistan. Unless the Pakistani government is willing and able to defuse the situation, the case could indeed provoke violent protests against the United States, and U.S. citizens and businesses in Pakistan should be prepared for this backlash.

Details of the Case
One of the reasons that the Pakistanis have been able to retain Davis in custody is that while he may have been traveling on a "black" diplomatic U.S. passport, not everyone who holds a diplomatic passport is afforded full diplomatic immunity. The only people afforded full diplomatic immunity are those who are on a list of diplomats officially accredited as diplomatic agents by the receiving country. The rest of the foreign employees at an embassy or a consulate in the receiving country who are not on the diplomatic list and who are not accredited as diplomatic agents under the Vienna Convention are only protected by functional immunity. This means they are only protected from prosecution related to their official duties.
As a contract employee assigned to the U.S. Consulate in Lahore, Davis was likely not on the diplomatic list and probably did not enjoy full diplomatic immunity. He was probably considered a member of the administrative or technical staff. Protecting himself during a robbery attempt would not be considered part of his official function in the country, and therefore his actions that day would not be covered under functional immunity. So determining exactly what level of immunity Davis was provided will be critical in this case, and the information provided by the Pakistani Foreign Ministry will have a big impact on the Pakistani judge hearing the arguments.
In all likelihood, Davis was briefed regarding his legal status by his company and by the CIA prior to being assigned to post. He also would have been told that, while he had limited immunity, the U.S. government would do its best to take care of him if some incident occurred. However, it would have been made clear to him that in working as a protective contractor he was running a risk and that if there was an incident on or off duty, he could wind up in trouble. All security contractors working overseas know this and accept the risk as part of the job.
At the time of the shooting, of course, Davis would not have had time to leisurely ponder this potential legal quagmire. He saw a threat and reacted to it. Undoubtedly, the U.S. government will do all it can to help Davis out — especially since the case appears to be a good-shoot scenario and not a case of negligence or bad judgment. Indeed, on Feb. 15, U.S. Sen. John Kerry flew to Islamabad in a bid to seek Davis' release. However, in spite of American efforts and international convention, Davis' case is complicated greatly by the fact that he was working in Pakistan and by the current state of U.S.-Pakistani relations.

Tensions
Over the past few years, relations between the United States and Pakistan have been very strained. This tension has been evidenced not only by public opinion but also by concrete examples. For example, in mid-December, the CIA station chief in Islamabad was forced to leave the country after his name was disclosed in a class-action lawsuit brought by relatives of civilians killed by unmanned aerial vehicle strikes in the Pakistani tribal badlands.
It was no coincidence that the Pakistani lawsuit against the CIA station chief occurred shortly after the head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, was accused in a civil lawsuit of being involved in the 2008 attacks in Mumbai. The suit was brought in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn by family members of the American rabbi killed alongside his wife in Mumbai by Pakistan-based Islamist militants.
Like Iraq, Pakistan is a country that has seen considerable controversy over American security contractors over the past several years. The government of Pakistan has gone after security contractor companies like DynCorp and its Pakistani affiliate InterRisk and Xe (formerly known as Blackwater), which has become the Pakistani version of the bogeyman. In addition to the clandestine security and intelligence work the company was conducting in Pakistan, in 2009 the Taliban even began to blame Xe for suicide bombing attacks that killed civilians. The end result is that American security contractors have become extremely unpopular in Pakistan. They are viewed not only as an affront to Pakistani sovereignty but also as trigger-happy killers.

And this is the environment in which the Davis shooting occurred. Even though some Pakistani civilians apparently came forward and reported that they had been robbed at gunpoint by the men Davis shot, other Pakistani groups like the Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) — the successor to the Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was presumably banned by the Pakistani government — have demanded that Davis be hanged. The Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), an Islamist political party, has also demanded that Davis be hanged and has called for large protests if he is released without a court order. As noted above, TTP spokesman Azam Tarik made a statement demanding that the Pakistani government either hang Davis or hand him over to them. Interest in this issue is not just confined to Islamist groups. There are some right-wing conservative nationalists and even some secular liberals who are asking: "If the United States can give CIA shooter Mir Amal Kansi the death penalty, why can't Pakistan do the same thing to Davis?"
The result is that the Davis case has aroused much controversy and passion in Pakistan. This not only complicates the position of the Pakistani government but also raises the distinct possibility that there will be civil unrest if Davis is released.

Civil Unrest in Pakistan
Like many parts of the developing world, civil unrest in Pakistan can quickly turn to extreme violence. One example that must certainly be on the minds of the security personnel at the U.S. Embassy and the U.S. consulates in Pakistan is the November 1979 incident in which an enraged mob seized and destroyed the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. While there were only two Americans killed in that incident — a Marine security guard shot as he stood on the roof of the embassy and an Army warrant officer who died when an apartment building on the embassy compound was torched — the fire that the mob set inside the building very nearly killed all the employees who had sought shelter in the embassy's inner safe-haven area. Two local Pakistani staff members were also killed in the fire.
The 1979 attack was said to have been sparked by reports that the U.S. government was behind an assault on the Grand Mosque in Mecca by Saudi militants the day before. In reality, the mob that stormed and torched the U.S. Embassy was at least tolerated, if not orchestrated, by the Pakistani government, which was angry that the United States cut off financial aid to the country in April 1979. Not only did the Pakistani government facilitate the busing of large numbers of protesters to the U.S. Embassy, its security forces also stood aside and refused to protect the embassy from the onslaught of the angry mob. The embassy assault was Pakistan's not-so-subtle way of sending a message to the U.S. government.
But U.S. diplomatic facilities have not been the only targets of civil unrest in Pakistan. Following the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, angry mobs attacked not only security forces but also foreign businesses, banks, shops and gasoline stations in the cities of Karachi, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Quetta and throughout the province of Sindh, Bhutto's home province.
Similarly, in February 2006 during the unrest generated by the Mohammed cartoon fiasco, mobs in Islamabad, Peshawar, Karachi and Lahore attacked a wide range of Western business targets. The worst of this violence occurred in Lahore, where a rampaging mob burned down four buildings housing the four-star Ambassador Hotel, two banks, a KFC restaurant franchise and the regional office of Telenor, a Norwegian cell phone company. The protesters also damaged about 200 cars and several storefronts and threw stones through the windows of a McDonald's restaurant, a Pizza Hut and a Holiday Inn. Lahore, incidentally, is where the Davis shooting occurred.

Forecast
Based on this history, the current tension between the United States and Pakistan, public sentiment in Pakistan regarding U.S. security contractors and the possibility of groups like JuD and JeI attempting to take advantage of the situation, there is a very real possibility that Davis' release could spark mob violence in Pakistan (and specifically Lahore). Even if the Pakistani government does try to defuse the situation, there are other parties who will attempt to stir up violence.
Due to the widespread discontent over the issue of U.S. security contractors in Pakistan, if protests do follow the release of Davis, they can be expected to be similar to the protests that followed the Mohammed cartoon case, i.e., they will cut across ethnic and sectarian lines and present a widespread threat.
Physical security measures such as concrete barriers, standoff distances and security cameras can add to a facility's defenses against a terrorist attack, but they really do not pose much of an obstacle to an angry mob intent on overrunning a property — especially if local and indigenous security forces are unwilling or unable to intervene in a timely fashion and the mob has the time and latitude to assault the facility for a prolonged period. The protesters can scale barriers and their overwhelming numbers can render most security measures useless. Barriers such as hard-line doors can provide some delay, but they can be breached by assailants who possess tools and time.
Additionally, if protesters are able to set fire to the building, as happened at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad in 1979, a safe-haven can become a death trap, especially if the mob can take control of the secondary escape hatch as it did in that incident, trapping the Americans inside the safe-haven.
Commercial facilities are, by their very nature, far more accessible — and far more vulnerable — to mob violence than diplomatic facilities. A commercial facility can present a tempting soft target to those who wish to attack a symbol of America without tackling a hard target like a U.S. diplomatic facility, which is designed and built to comply with stringent security standards. If a mob storms a hotel, the local staff will be unable to protect the guests, and conceivably could leave the guests to fend for themselves in the confusion and chaos of a riot. Even worse, they could even facilitate attacks against Americans by pointing them out or providing their room numbers.
Any person identified as an American by such an angry mob could quickly find himself or herself in dire danger. While Americans working for the U.S. government can expect to have some security assistance in getting back to the embassy or to another secure location, non-officials may be left to fend for themselves, especially if they are not registered with the embassy. Non-officials are also not required to abide by the same security rules as officials. While many non-officials consider the U.S. State Department's security rules to be onerous at times, during troubled periods these conservative security rules often serve to keep diplomats out of harm's way.
Once a mob attacks, there often is little that can be done — especially if the host government either cannot or will not take action to protect the facility being attacked. At that point, the focus should be on preventing injuries and saving lives — without regard to the physical property. In most cases, when a mob attacks a multinational corporation, it is attacking a symbolic target. KFC restaurants, for example, have been frequent targets of attacks in Pakistan because of the company's association with the United States. In many cases, multinational franchises such as KFC and even some hotels are owned by locals and not Americans, but that does not matter to the mobs, which see nothing but a U.S. symbol.
When an issue such as the Mohammed cartoons, the Bhutto assassination or the release of Raymond Davis spirals into violent protests, the only real precaution that many companies can take is to escape the area and avoid loss of life. The best defense is to use good intelligence in order to learn about the protests in advance, to track them when they occur and then to evacuate personnel before they can be affected by the violence.
U.S. diplomatic facilities and business interests in Pakistan are almost certainly reviewing their contingency plans right now and planning for the worst-case scenario. During such times, vigilance and preparation are vital, as is a constant flow of updated intelligence pertaining to potential demonstrations. Such intelligence can provide time for an evacuation or allow other proactive security measures to be taken. With the current tension between Pakistan and the United States, there might not be much help coming when the next wave of unrest erupts, so keeping ahead of potential protests is critically important.

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Who is Dr. Aafia Siddiqui?

Why is the world's largest superpower afraid of an 80 lb shell of a woman?

 

 

This is a feature story based on the struggle and research of one sister to free another.

 

 

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is the youngest of three children born to an educated middle class family from Pakistan. Aafia's father was a UK trained doctor who served in many underserved regions of the world like South Central and North Africa. Her mother was a social worker motivated by a mission to help the poor and needy. The lesson these parents gave to their children was do whatever you like in this world as long as it is substantial and worthwhile; something that will make a difference.

 

Aafia's elder brother chose to be an architect and wished to contribute to creating a more beautiful world. Her elder sister thought nothing could be more substantial and worthwhile than to be a physician. And Aafia decided to pursue the field of education, become what we call an "educationist". Her aim, her goal, her mission in life was to improve the education system in the third world, especially her homeland of Pakistan. She believed a better education is the key to all our miseries – be they human rights violations or economic turmoil.

 

Aafia was born in Pakistan and started her early primary education in South Central Africa, where her father was posted. Then returning to Pakistan, she did her matriculation from Gulistan Shah Abdul Latif School and completed her intermediate education from St. Josephs College in Karachi.

 

Through out her primary and secondary education she continued to excel in all academic endeavors and received numerous awards in both curricular and extracurricular activities.  Among them are the Midtowners essay writng, National debating and eloquence certificates,Letraplay, Diners club talent hunt,  Best girl of the School, Head girl, best all rounder, Highest marks in school through out, Presidential outstanding performance award and numerous others.

 

Recognizing her academic excellence  and drive to succeed and make a change, her family decided to send her to the United States at the tender age of 17 to get the kind of education she could not get anywhere else in the world. Her family cherished the values of love, kindness and justice – to give to others when one is blessed, to care for people in need and to help the helpless. They trusted that these were values that America stood for.

 

 

Childhood:

 

As a child Aafia loved dolls and balloons. They were her life, her treasure and as she started school she loved reading ladybird books, then fairytales and then Enid Blyton books.

 

Being the youngest, she was the most pampered and being bright and pretty as well as very cheerful, she was her father's nightingale, her mother's pride and joy, her brother's baby sister and for her elder sister, Aafia was simply special.

 

Aafia's was always been very sensitive and selfless. Emotionally, she would faint at the sight of blood and avoided arguments. She could not stand being scolded and tried to do things to perfection. Absence of mistakes would avoid unpleasantness. She would take on blame just to avoid argument, or bickering. If a maid broke a glass or something that would upset our mom, Aafia would immediately take the blame.

She loved to pose for the camera, wear latest fashion clothes, matching jewelry and flowery prints in tinges of peach and sea green. She preferred soft Egyptian cotton and pure silk. Her skin was was very sensitive to Polyester or any rough or stiff material.

 

From her early days, animals, children and the elderly were her weakness. Much of her time was spent either teaching the maid's kids to read and write, grooming her several pets or just  sitting with grandmother.

 

Love for Animals:

Animals were always part of our family but Aafia penchant for picking up strays and nursing wounded animals helped create a children's zoo of sorts.  Her collection included dogs (Two German Shepards and a Bull Terrier),  a variety of cats , geese, turtles, parrots, pigeons, occasional goats and, at any given time, a variety of strays on being nursed on their way to a shelter or some adoption family. Once she brought home a rabid dog, got bitten, had to get 14 shots in the belly but that did not deter her from caring for these helpless creatures, nor from volunteering for the SPCA.

 

Love for Children:

It would be hard to find anyone who would openly say they dislike children.  For some reason Aafia was always drawn to children, specially orpnas, often spending time at orphanages. Once there was a storm in Karachi and one of the slum areas was flooded and the women and children were stranded. Aafia brought them all to our home and gave them shelter, She had all the children in our TV lounge watching TV.  I remember a couple of renowned social workers, when called to help, came and said "why did you bring them inside? These people will fill your house with germs, they are used to these hardships. They can survive." That night Aafia cried so much I can never forget the hurt she felt and kept saying: "Are they not humans??? What if I was born in that family? Is that how I would be treated?  How do people get so mean?"

 

Little did she know what a mean world was waiting for her.

 

Love for the Elderly:

It seems Aafia was attracted to help those who who do not verbally say thank you most of the time like kids, animals, old people. She would regularly visit old aunties, volunteer at old people homes or do their chores and walk their pets.

 

A transcript of an interview published when Aafia was in the ninth grade is attached to give an idea of her extraordinary achievements and summarizes her life in Pakistan.

 

LIFE in the US:

 

Aafia's life in the Unired States started with full focus on academic pursuits.  She initially attended the University of Houston and achieved a place on the National Deans list. Within a year, Aafia had received a full scholarship to MIT and decided to move to Boston.

 

During her tenure at MIT, Aafia participated in some extra-curricular charitibale work, worked at the library and started setting up "Dawah" tables at different university events.  She joined the MSA (Muslim Students Association). Her commitment to help the oppressed made her stand up to help the Bosnian Refujees that arrived in the US. She helped raise more funds than many of the societies and NGOs of Boston put together.

She was deeply touched by the wars in different parts of the world, and the oppression faced by the third world, and the propaganda against Islam.

 

At MIT she received the Carroll Wilson Award for a research paper on "Islamization in Pakistan and its effect on Women" (abstract attached). She attended classes and opened dialogues on the existence of man and interacted with renowned scholars like Naom Chomsky. After one of her dialogues on "God Exists" Naom Chomsky said "Aafia is an institute in her self. She will influence change wherever she goes". Aafia received several awards and recognitions for her academic and extra curricular achievements.

 

She was never argumentative and was known for being soft spoken and kind hearted. She had respect and love for the Holy books – the Torah, the Bible and the Quran. She believed them to be a continuing chain evolved to salvage mankind. She kept all the scriptures very close to her heart. She always used to show frustration at a very simple fact "I don't understand, it's the same God, the same heaven and hell, the same angels, we are all offsprings of the same Adam and Eve. Why then all this discrimination?"

 

She believed Education was the solution to all the violations of human rights, discrimination and poverty.

 

Marriage

Shortly after graduation from MIT, Aafia was married by family arrangement.

Her "Nikah" (Marriage vows) were telephonic – in that they were conducted long distance over the telephone.  Her husband-to0be, Amjad Khan was in Pakistan and she was in the US. She never met or saw the person she was destined to betroth. Her parents obviously thought he was a good person and a good match. His mother had asked for Aafia's hand for all her sons. She claimed to love Aafia immensely and considered her self to be most blessed if Aafia were to become part of their family.

 

After their union in the US, Aafia's smile started to fade away. Soon she started her MS/PHD at Brandies University, the most prestigious Jewish inistitution in the United States. The high level stress of university studies, a difficult pregnancy, non supportive husband, …and her bright flowery clothes changed to dull shades. Her social life was now limited  to cooking, cleaning, changing diapers and studying.

 

After some adjustment, she restarted her Dawah center through which she distributed free copies of the Pikthal translation of Qurans to those who were interested.

 

Aafia was always worried for her children. Like her dolls, she put her life and soul into not only her children, but also those of her sister. Their slightest pain , even a sneeze was enough to increase her anxiety. She opened a play group for little children after her PHd  to apply her knowledge in making learning more efficient and enjoyable and started working on a whole 10 year program to change the education system of Pakistan. No one ever accused Aafia of having low aims.

 

Meanwhile, her marriage was disintegrating. Aafia, an outgoing, joyful, very social person was stuck with an equally antisocial, narsisitic personality who had very strange concepts of having pictures taken , attending events or social gatherings and made lame excuses on family get togethers. He would often spend time, some times days, in the local "musalla" (prayer room) gaining inner peace. (Exerpts from the union council and copy of letter to Aafia's mother  attached).

 

There is ample proof that Aafia was physically and mentally abused as university mates and collegues repeatedly saw bruises on hr face and arms.  Who would have thought that this was in preparation for the torture that awaited her in future.

Bil ahtamam zulm ki tajdeed ki gai

Aur hum ko sabr o zubt ki takeed ki gai

 

Once, when she was so badly wounded leaving her unable to eat or talk for weeks, her sister asked why don't you leave this jerk?.  Aafia said, "They will take my children from me, and I would rather be beaten everyday and abused than lose my children."

 

This was her weakness and everyone who knew her knew this. It seems this weakness was her worst enemy. While she was successful in everything she did, it seems she could not accept the failure of her marriage. The stigma of a devorce and the society pressure of child custudy, was so strong that she preferred to become a doormat than bear that. It was not difficult first for her husband and later her captors to use this against her – one of the most heinous forms of mental coercion in the history of mankind.

 

For Aafia, being so talented, highly educated, eloquent and strong on one hand and a Muslim Pakistani woman in the 21st century on the other was a very uneven balance.  And all the inequities of this imbalance were more than Aafia could manage.  It seems that, in the end being a woman was Aafia's primary liability. 

 

 

The PhD:

Aafia did her PhD in cognitive neuroscience, with the aim to make learning more effective and efficient. (Abstract attached). Her research could have aided millions of children everywhere. With her education and passion for children, she would have been a brilliant light in the darkest corners of this world. Aafia's mother believed that "My daughter would have been an asset in a world that needs these values more than ever."

 

One of the more cruel acts of defamation against Aafia has been the deliberate distortion of her education and thesis as something sinister. Her thesis was nowhere near any chemical or biological research. As her professor, Dr. Secular said "Our 'lab' was not even certified to store bleach!".

 

Love for Children, and the elderly:

Aafia volunteered with old people homes, did their groceries, walked their pets and help bathe and dress them. She also volunteered with autistic kids and after her PhD volunteered and taught at a school for dyslexic children. She raised her voice and acted for those who no one understood i.e the elderly and the retarded.

 

Love For Americans:

Aafia was impressed with much in America.  The work ethic and general honesty of the people. The recognition of merit and the the stated desire to pursue fairness.  But Aafia also worried about the social fragmentation of the society.  When asked: "Aafia why do you fret over what is going on? Why do you worry that depression is prevalent and why so many Americans are on Prozac?" "My dear sister", Aafia would say, "I love America, and its people, all my dearest friends are Americans. When I am depressed the Quran gives me hope and courage and I feel better and function with renewed vigor. I wish I can spread this remedy to every American."  

 

Love for Pakistan:

Aafia loved her homeland of Pakistan and did not take American citizenship even though the opportunity was offered to her. She blamed the lack of proper education as the root of all Pakistan's problems. She believed that if a new generation would get a high quality education in the most efficient and effective way, with proper grooming, and in an affordable manner, each Pakistani would be respected and have a status that would generate respect. Hence a proper democratic government and strong economy would develop. Her 10 year education plan would have transformed the society setup within 15 years from a loan laden third world nation to a self sufficient, proud nation.

 

 

Worldwide  Muslims Rendition, Massacre and Aafia:

Aafia was deeply touched and saddened by the torture and rendition and the selective genocide of muslims worldwide. She used to say the muslim ummah is to blame for this. They do not practice Islam and have forgotten the teachings of the prophets and have put aside the Quran. If the true Quranic teachings are implemented we would be a strong ummah filled with love and tolerance, honesty and integrity, justice and equality. A society that condemns terrorism, and believes that killing of one innocent person is like the killing of the whole of  humanity. Where, if one person in the public is hungry the ruler will not sleep until that person is fed, where a deer can drink from the same water hole at the sametime with a lion, with no fear of being attacked.

 

When Bosnian and Muslim women and children were being raped and tortured, Aafia would cry. She knew that the Quran in Sura-e-Nisa verse 75 ……

"what has happened to you that you do not respond to the calls of the elderly, the women and children who have been subdued and tortured due to their weakness, they cry: 'O Lord save us from this place where people are cruel, and send us a savior"

 

So, she stood up and gathered donations and probably managed to collect one of the highest single handed funds for this cause. It shows that her honesty and integrity and sincerety among the society was such that people trusted her alone more than others.

 

In summary Aafia's life was one of a great missionary, filled with love and humility. She achieved and performed great deeds and sacrifices at such a young and tender age that had any Jew or Christian woman achieved half of what Aafia has done, she would have been awarded Nobel prizes for her missionary work, Awards for her sacrifice and medals for  bravery and valor…..But Aafia Siddiqui is a practicing muslim woman with the highest level of modern education, for whom, Prof. Naom Choamski  said "Aafia is an Institution in herself….She will bring change wherever she goes"

 


--
Anwar Ul Haque

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One Interesting discussion in Pakistan, which is gaining alot of momentum is since Raymond is arrested there are no Drone Attacks .....

'Davis' is the missing link to US support for 'TTP' terror in Pakistan' actually a Peshawar US Consulate with ID #481951
Undoubtedly this is the biggest scandal in US Foreign relations since the US U-2 was shot down by the Soviets in the sixties. Then, as now, both sides played out the drama in an iterative manner--neither side letting the other know how much they know.

There are clear indications that there is much more to the "Raymond Davis" affair than the Pakistanis are letting on. This isn't about murder and diplomatic immunity. This is mush bigger. Something is very wrong with this picture, and Islamabad is tight lipped because it now has concrete evidence that Mr "Raymond Davis" is linked with the Tehrik e Taliban e Pakistan (TTP) and some of the terror activities that have been happening in Pakistan. The Pakistanis are not stupid. Americans stick out like sore thumbs in Pakistan. When they go running around in their black SUVs laced with Satellite equipment they are tracked, traced and followed. In a cat and mouse game, the contractors can sometimes shake their "tails". On other occasions they cannot. In fact the ISI gives them enough rope to hang themselves with. In this case, it seems Mr. Davis fell into a trap and his situation is now fully compromised. In panic Mr. "Davis" used the Nuclear option and killed the two Pakistanis who were trailing him--knowing full well that killing Pakistani spies or those who knew his identity would blow up in this face. He doesn't have to say much--the equipment he carried tells a long and bloody story. All this is irrefutable evidence in a Pakistani court of law. The Pakistanis have already released the pictures of the equipment and the evidence that they have gathered. Of course they are still holding on to the juiciest details.

The US has postponed the Afghan-Pakistan-US Trilateral meeting, dropped hints about postponing the date of Mr. Zardari's visit to the US, and floated all sorts of other threats. Normally Islamabad would have been cognizant of the the problems of spoiling its relationship with the sole Superpower. However the smirking Pakistanis are so confident in the validity of their cause, that they are letting the US escalate the issue.

Pakistan has ignored some of the US pressure and has not buckled under intense US pressure. Both General Kayani and Former Foreign Minister Mahmood Qureshi were not very impressed by US posturing. In fact right after their threatening phone calls and messages Islamabad formally charged Davis with pre-meditated murder in the Lahore High Court. The Court promptly remanded Mr. "Davis" to prison for another 14 days of interrogation. There were stories that if Mr. "Davis" does not cooperate, the interrogation would have been upgraded to level 3 (a euphemism for torture). There are reports that despite admonitions from the US Embassy, Mr. Davis is singing like a bird, and has already given enough information to the Pakistanis to get him convicted in any court of law.

The Former Foreign Minister Qureshi publicly confirmed that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressured him to "publicly confirm diplomatic immunity of Davis. However, I refused to do so because it was against the factual position in the case." FM Qureshi's confirmation that Mr "Davis" is not a diplomat was repeatedly discussed on all 80 TV channels with copies of his passports and visas prominently displayed for the audience. Mr. Qureshi said that
"The kind of blanket immunity Washington is pressing for Davis is not endorsed by the official record of the Foreign Ministry," adding that Washington even "threatened that Hillary Clinton would not meet me at the Munich conference on February 6 if the request was not granted."

The situation is so polarized that even traditional US allies in Pakistan have condemned the intrusive murders. Mr. Pervez Hoodbhoy who almost never criticizes the US has condemned the "Davis" affair. The PMLN is of course threatened the PPP with a vote of no-confidence.

It is clear that Mr. "Davis" shot the Pakistani operatives knowing full well who they were. The Pakistani authorities have informed the the media that they are very well aware that Mr. Davis was in touch with the "Pakistani Taliban" (TTP). There is conjecture that Mr. "Davis" walked into a trap laid out by the ISI. In fact his contacts were actually ISI agents. All that he said and did is in the hands of the Pakistanis. Mr. "Davis" thought that by shooting the two operatives, he would eliminate the evidence against him. In fact, it made matters worse. Other operatives who were in the vicinity had already taken the necessary precautions. The ISI has leaked information to the media that Mr. "Davis" had crossed a "red line".

Clearly, the Americans have panicked because the know that the Pakistani side knows much more than it is prepared to admit in public. This is typical behavior when spies are caught with their thumbs up their noses. There are clear indications that Mr. "Davis" has broken down after sustained interrogation in police custody, and has spilled his guts--making the Pakistanis aware of explosive stuff. Its not that this stuff has surprised the Pakistanis. When you have 3000 of these guys running around the country--something gives. The ISI is one of the world's most powerful spy organizations in the world. It has deep roots in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Nothing that crawls or walks in Pakistan is hidden from the ISI and other agencies. On top of this there is a million man Pakistani army. 180 million Pakistanis are also watching the Americans and reporting on them. The panicked Americans have continually given highly contradictory versions about Mr. "Davis's" identity and the nature of his assignment in Pakistan.

It is very clear that Mr. "Davis's" discovery and detention has sent alarm bells ringing all the way to President Obama's White House. In a way the Pakistanis are amused. They know they have the Americans where they want them--right up against the wall. The Americans are fully aware that the "Davis" case is shaking the very foundations of the transactional relationship with Pakistan. While the CIA, the State Department and the White House think that this is a new discovery--the Pakistanis point to a long trail of evidence that directly points to the US consultants and their hirelings in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The ISI and the Army believe that at the right time, the details of what the Pakistanis know will be revealed to President Obama and the world.

Pakistan and Pakistanis have known for a long time who is behind the TTP (Tehrik e Taliban e Pakistani). Its not that hard to guess. What surprised the Pakistanis was their ability to inflict bloody attacks on the Pakistani military in order to destabilize Pakistani. Mr. Davis is not an isolated incident--there is a history behind much of what is happening in Pakistan--most of which can be correlated to the rise of the US "consultants" and "contractors" in Pakistan. It is pedagogical to note that last year when the ISI put in requests for deep security checks on those coming into Pakistan--the US put up a hussy fit and forced about 500 of these "Davis types" through without any background checks. Is is noted that the ISI became very suspicious of the insistence of the US in getting these guys into Pakistan at short notice. These guys got very special attention--and that has paid off in the arrest and detention of Mr. Davis. This points to the fact that this incident was not just an accident--it was an incident waiting to happen. The ISI was ready to pounce on the situation once it happened.

Pakistan has been very suspicious of these "contractors" especially when Pakistani state institutions were attacked. The attacks on the the Army HQ, and the ISI sent alarm bells among the rank and file of the Pakistani government. The vibrant Pakistani press has also been on the trail and has repeatedly pointed out the facts about the former Afghan intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh (who was eventually fired by Mr. Karzai). However the US security establishment was in cahoots with him.

The Pakistani military and its highly efficient intelligence set-up had concluded a very long time ago that the TTP was being aided by the very sort of free-wheeling "contractors" that Mr. Davis represents. It was just a matter of time when things came to a boil. It is amazing that the Americans are surprised they have finally be caught red-handed. This has happened in the past, but during the reign of President Musharraf, the Americans got away with it and escaped. This time Mr. "Davis" was caught with his hands in the cookie jar.

Over 100,000 American troops in Afghanistan facing the new Taliban "Spring Offensive" are totally dependent on supplies running through Pakistan. The last time Pakistan shut off the spigot, the Americans ran out of toilet paper and had to cut down on food rations. It must have been hard eating food with dirty hands! If the tiff between the US and Pakistan is not resolved the US may face the consequences in Afghanistan. Failure in the Hindu Kush will certainly impact the presidential elections in 2012.

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By DAVE LINDORFF

The mystery of American Raymond A. Davis, currently imprisoned in the custody of local police in Lahore, Pakistan and charged with the Jan. 27 murder of two young men, whom he allegedly shot eight times with pinpoint accuracy through his car windshield, is growing increasingly murky. Also growing is the anger among Pakistanis that the US is trying to spring him from a Punjab jail by claiming diplomatic immunity. On Feb. 4, there were massive demonstrations, especially in Lahore, demanding that Davis be held for trial, an indication of the level of public anger at talk of granting him immunity.

Davis (whose identity was first denied and later confirmed by the US Embassy in Islamabad), and the embassy have claimed that he was hired as an employee of a US security company called Hyperion Protective Consultants, LLC, which was said to be located at 5100 North Lane in Orlando, Florida. Business cards for Hyperion were found on Davis by arresting officers.

However CounterPunch has investigated and discovered the following information:

First, there is not and never has been any such company located at the 5100 North Lane address. It is only an empty storefront, with empty shelves along one wall and an empty counter on the opposite wall, with just a lone used Coke cup sitting on it. A leasing agency sign is on the window.  A receptionist at the IB Green & Associates rental agency located in Leesburg, Florida, said that her agency, which handles the property, part of a desolate-looking strip mall of mostly empty storefronts, has never leased to a Hyperion Protective Consultants. She added, "In fact, until recently, we had for several years occupied that address ourselves."

The Florida Secretary of State's office, meanwhile, which requires all Florida companies, including LLSs  (limited liability partnerships), to register, has no record, current or lapsed, of a Hyperion Protective Consultants, LLC, and there is only one company with the name Hyperion registered at all in the state. It is Hyperion Communications, a company based in W. Palm Beach, that has no connection with Davis or with security-related activities.

The non-existent Hyperion Protective Consultants does have a website (www.hyperion-protective.com), but one of the phone numbers listed doesn't work, an 800 number produces a recorded answer offering information about how to deal with or fend off bank foreclosures, and a third number with an Orlando exchange goes to a recording giving Hyperion's corporate name and asking the caller to leave a message. Efforts to contact anyone on that line were unsuccessful. The local phone company says there is no public listing for Hyperion Protective Consultants--a rather unusual situation for a legitimate business operation.

Pakistani journalists have been speculating that Davis is either a CIA agent or is working as a contractor for some private mercenary firm--possibly Xe, the reincarnation of Blackwater. They are not alone in their suspicions. Jeff Stein, writing in the Washington Post on January 27, suggested after interviewing Fred Burton, a veteran of the State Department's counter-terrorism Security Service, that Davis may have been involved in intelligence activity, either as a CIA employee under embassy cover or as a contract worker at the time of the shootings. Burton, who currently works with Stratfor, an Austin, TX-based "global intelligence" firm,  even speculates that the shootings may have been a "spy meeting gone awry,"  and not, as US Embassy and State Department officials are claiming, a case of an attempted robbery or car-jacking.

Even the information about what actually transpired is sketchy at this point. American media reports have Davis driving in Mozang, a busy commercial section of Lahore, and being approached by two threatening men on motorcycles. The US says he fired in self-defense, through his windshield with his Beretta pistol, remarkably hitting both men four times and killing both. He then exited his car and photographed both victims with his cell phone, before being arrested by local Lahore police. Davis, 36, reportedly a former Special Forces officer, was promptly jailed on two counts of murder, and despite protests by the US Embassy and the State Department that he  is a "consular official" responsible for "security," he continues to be held pending trial.

What has not been reported in the US media, but which reporter Shaukat Qadir of the Pakistani Express Tribune, says has been stated by Lahore police authorities, is that the two dead motorcyclists were each shot two times, "probably the fatal shots," in the back by Davis. They were also both shot twice from the front. Such ballistics don't mesh nicely with a protestation of self-defense.

Also left unmentioned in the US media is what else was found in Davis' possession. Lahore police say that in addition to the Beretta he was still holding, and three cell phones retrieved from his pockets, they found a loaded Glock pistol in his car, along with three full magazines, and a "small telescope."  Again, heavy arms for a consular security officer not even in the act of guarding any embassy personnel, and what's with the telescope?  Also unmentioned in US accounts: his car was not an embassy vehicle, but was a local rental car.

American news reports say that a "consular vehicle" sped to Davis' aid after the shooting incident and killed another motorcyclist enroute, before speeding away. The driver of that car is being sought by Lahore prosecutors but has not been identified or produced by US Embassy officials. According to Lahore police, however, the car in question, rather than coming to Davis's aid, actually had been accompanying Davis's sedan, and when the shooting happened, it "sped away," killing the third motorcyclist as it raced off. Again a substantially different story that raises more questions about what this drive into the Mozang district was all about.

Davis has so far not said why he was driving, heavily armed, without anyone else in his vehicle, in a private rental car in a business section of Lahore where foreign embassy staff would not normally be seen. He is reportedly remaining silent and is leaving all statements to the US Embassy.

The US claim that Davis has diplomatic immunity hinges first and foremost on whether he is actually a "functionary" of the consulate.  According to Lahore police investigators, he was arrested carrying a regular US passport, which had a business visa, not a diplomatic visa. The US reportedly only later supplied a diplomatic passport carrying a diplomatic visa that had been obtained not in the US before his departure, but in Islamabad, the country's capital.

(Note: It is not unusual, though it is not publicly advertised, for the US State Department to issue duplicate passports to certain Americans. When I was working for Business Week magazine in Hong Kong in the early 1990s, and was dispatched often into China on reporting assignments, my bureau chief advised me that I could take a letter signed by her to the US Consulate in Hong Kong and request a second passport. One would be used exclusively to enter China posing as a tourist. The other would be used for going in officially as a journalist. The reason for this subterfuge, which was supported by the State Department, was that  once Chinese visa officials have spotted a Chinese "journalist" visa stamped in a passport, they would never again allow that person to enter the country without first obtaining such a visa. The problem is that a journalist visa places strict limits on a reporter's independent travel and access to sources. As a tourist, however, the same reporter could – illegally -- travel freely and report without being accompanied by meddling foreign affairs office "handlers.")

Considerable US pressure is currently being brought to bear on the Pakistani national government to hand over Davis to the US, and the country's Interior Minister yesterday issued a statement accepting that Davis was a consular official as claimed by the US.  But Punjab state authorities are not cooperating, and so far the national government is saying it is up to local authorities and the courts to decide whether his alleged crime of murder would, even if he is a legitimate consular employee, override a claim of diplomatic immunity.

Under Pakistani law, only actual consular functionaries, not service workers at embassy and consulate, have diplomatic status. Furthermore, no immunity would apply in the case of "serious" crimes--and certainly murder is as serious as it gets.

The US media have been uncritically quoting the State Department as saying that Pakistan is "violating" the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963 by holding Davis in jail on murder charges. Those reporters should check the actual document.

Section II, Article 41 of the treaty, in its first paragraph regarding the "Personal inviolability of consular officers," states: 

"Consular officers shall not be liable to arrest or detention pending trial, except in the case of a grave crime and pursuant to a decision by the competent judicial authority."

In other words, the prosecutorial, police and judicial authorities in Lahore and the state of Punjab are doing exactly what they are supposed to do in holding Davis on murder charges, pending a judicial determination concerning whether or not he can properly claim diplomatic immunity.

The US claim that Pakistan is violating the convention is simply nonsense.

There is also the matter of double standards. The US routinely violates the Vienna Diplomatic Accord that governs international diplomatic rights. For example, the same convention requires countries that arrest, jail and prosecute foreigners for crimes to promptly notify the person's home country embassy, and to grant that embassy the right to provide legal counsel. Yet the US has arrested, charged with murder, and executed many foreign nationals without ever notifying their embassies of their legal jeopardy, and has, on a number of occasions, even gone ahead with executions after a convict's home country has learned of the situation and requested a stay and a retrial with an embassy-provided defense attorney.  The US, in 1997, also prosecuted, over the objections of the government of Georgia, a Georgian embassy diplomat charged with the murder of a 16-year-old girl.

Apparently diplomatic immunity has more to do with the relative power of the government in question and of the embassy in question than with the simple words in a treaty.

It remains to be seen whether Davis will ever actually stand trial in Pakistan. The US is pushing hard in Islamabad for his release. On the other hand, his arrest and detention, and the pressure by the US Embassy to spring him, are leading to an outpouring of rage among Pakistanis at a very volatile time, with the Middle East facing a wave of popular uprisings against US-backed autocracies, and with Pakistan itself, increasingly a powder keg, being bombed by US rocket-firing pilotless drone aircraft.

Some Pakistani publications, meanwhile, are speculating that Davis, beyond simple spying, may have been involved in subversive activities in the country, possibly linked to the wave of terror bombings that have been destabilizing the central government. They note that both of the slain motorcyclists (the third dead man appears to have been an innocent victim of the incident) were themselves armed with pistols, though neither had apparently drawn his weapon.

A State Department official, contacted by Counterpunch, refused to provide any details about the nature of Davis' employment, or to offer an explanation for Hyperion Protective Consultants LLC's fictitious address, and its lack of registration with the Florida Secretary of State's office.

Davis is currently scheduled for a court date on Feb. 11 to consider the issue of whether or not he has immunity from prosecution.

Dave Lindorff, a frequent contributor to Counterpunch, is the founder of the online alternative newspaper ThisCantBeHappening! atwww.thiscantbehappening.net




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