Victim's Brother Demands US Killer Be Hanged!

Victim's Brother Demands Detained U.S. Official Be Hanged

Raymond Davis, Accused of Killing Two Pakistanis, to Be Held at Least Three More Weeks as Government Decides Immunity

By LEE FERRAN, MATTHEW COLE, KIRIT RADIA and NICK SCHIFRIN
Feb. 17, 2011

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Moments after a Pakistani court once again rejected U.S. demands to release an American "technical advisor" accused in a deadly shooting, the brother of one of the shooting victims told reporters today he and his family demand Raymond Davis be executed.

"Our demand from the first day is that we want him hanged, nothing other than this," the man said after a court decided Davis would be detained for at least another three weeks while the Pakistani central government determines Davis' eligibility for immunity.

"We curse their money, visa and country," the man said, possibly referring to Pakistani news reports that the families have been offered financial compensation for their loss.

The wife of the same man who was shot committed suicide earlier this month, but not before telling local media she wanted Davis' "blood."

After the hearing, Cameron Munter, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, said today he was "disappointed" the Pakistani central government did not certify Davis as a diplomat and release him under diplomatic immunity.

Davis, 36, is accused of shooting and killing two men who the U.S. State Department said were trying to rob him. Ever since his arrest, mystery has surrounded the man President Barack Obama called "our diplomat."

In the days after the shooting, the U.S. State Department denied that the man in Pakistani custody was Raymond Davis, despite Pakistani officials, court documents and one source close to Davis saying otherwise. Eventually Davis was revealed to be a member of the embassy's "technical and administrative staff," but the State Department has refused to answer questions about his specific job in Pakistan. When Davis was arrested, he reportedly possessed a loaded gun, GPS equipment, pictures of what Pakistani police called "sensitive areas" of Pakistan, as well as a diplomatic passport.

Public records show Davis has experience with the U.S. Special Forces and runs a small security company that provides "loss prevention specialists," according to the company website which is no longer active.

Complicating matters, several Pakistani officials told ABC News that the men Davis allegedly shot were not small time criminals, but agents of the country's premier intelligence service, the ISI, who had been tracking Davis -- a claim the U.S. government vehemently denies.

Davis is being held in a "high security" prison where he is being treated like any other inmate, Carmela Conroy, the U.S. Consul General in Lahore, said Tuesday -- a claim disputed by a Pakistani lawyer today. That lawyer claimed in court today that Davis had access to alcohol, cell phones, television and "other things of pleasure."

"Ray is being treated like a regular prisoner," Conroy said earlier this week. "He has no access to a television, telephone, internet or any other electronic devices, and cannot communicate directly with his family." 

Obama: Pakistan Recognizes Davis as a Diplomat

While the Pakistani central government may be taking three weeks to determine whether Davis should enjoy diplomatic immunity, U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday the matter is clear.

"We've got a very simple principle here that every country in the world that is party to the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations has upheld in the past and should uphold in the future, and that is, if our diplomats are in another country, then they are not subject to that country's local prosecution," Obama said in a press conference today. "We expect Pakistan, that's a signatory and recognizes Mr. Davis as a diplomat, to abide by the same convention... I'm not going to discuss the specific exchanges that we've had [with the Pakistani government], but we've been very firm about this being a priority."

Kerry: U.S. Will Open Criminal Investigation Into Shooting

Earlier Wednesday, Sen. John Kerry, chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, left Pakistan without Davis after a short trip meant to help smooth over relations between Pakistan and the U.S.

"President Obama and Secretary Clinton have personally asked me to convey to the people of Pakistan our deepest sorrow for the loss of life that occurred there in that tragic incident," Kerry said before leaving the country. "And there is nothing that the United States wants more than to see those kinds of incidents disappear forever in the lives of Pakistanis and in our relationship. I was encouraged today in the meetings that I had in all levels of your government."

Upon landing in the country, Kerry told local media the U.S. Department of Justice would open a criminal investigation into the shooting should Raymond Davis be released.

"I think during the course of Senator Kerry's stay there, we made clear that with such incidents it is practice of the United States government to conduct its own criminal investigation," Crowley told reporters Wednesday. "And we intend to follow that practice here."

Taliban: Release Davis, Prepare to Die

On Sunday a spokesman for the Taliban said should Davis be released for any reason, the terrorist group would kill anyone involved.

"Whether he is a judge, police, lawyer, army, policy maker or a politician, we will target him. We will kill him," the spokesman told The Associated Press Sunday.

Raymond Davis has been set free!!!

Any confirmations???

White House Threatens: "U.S. will kick Haqqani out of the U.S., close U.S. consulates in Pakistan"

Donilon Told Pakistanis To Release Ray Davis By Friday Or Else; Davis Due In Court Friday A.M.

By MATTHEW COLE and NICK SCHIFRIN

Feb. 10, 2011

Pakistani officials said President Obama's national security advisor summoned Pakistan's ambassador to the White House Monday evening to deliver a threat from the president: Release Raymond Davis, an American being held in Lahore for killing two Pakistanis, or face the consequences.

 

Pakistani police escort Raymond Davis to a court in Lahore, Jan. 28, 2011.

(Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)

National Security Advisor Tom Donilon told Ambassador Husain Haqqani, according to two Pakistani officials involved in negotiations about Davis, that the U.S. will kick Haqqani out of the U.S., close U.S. consulates in Pakistan, and cancel an upcoming visit by Pakistan's president to Washington, if Davis, a U.S. embassy employee, is not released from custody by Friday.

The outlines of the threat were confirmed to ABC News by a senior U.S. official, who was not authorized to speak on the record. A White House spokesperson, Tommy Vietor, declined comment.

Ambassador Haqqani denied, via Twitter, that any "US official, incl the NSA, has conveyed any personal threats 2 me or spoken of extreme measures."

Davis, 36, is expected in court early Friday morning in Lahore to face charges of shooting two men on motorcycle on Jan. 25. Davis says he killed the men because they had been following his car and were trying to rob him. Video emerged Thursday of Davis showing his State Department credentials to Pakistani police officers and saying, "I'm a consultant."

Davis is in Pakistan on a diplomatic passport, and the U.S. has demanded his immediate release on the grounds of diplomatic immunity. The stand-off between Washington and Islamabad has brought the already tense relationship between two uneasy allies to a new low.

Raymond Davis Is 'Technical Advisor' To Consulate

The U.S. has refused to elaborate publicly on Davis' position in Pakistan except to say he is a "technical advisor" for the consulate in Lahore. But U.S. officials believe Davis's life is in danger the longer he spends time in a Lahore jail cell, the target of anti-American resentment from Pakistani citizens, some of whom have called for Davis to be executed.

"Our first fear is that the sentiment of the street in Pakistan is, 'Let's take him and hang him,'" said a current senior U.S. official.

According to the official, administration officials fear that the Pakistani government lacks control over Lahore municipal police, who have Davis in custody.

Pakistani government officials have claimed that Davis was being followed by men hired by Pakistan's intelligence agency because they suspected Davis was spying. American officials have said that Davis shot the two men in self defense, after they blocked his car with their motorcycle and brandished weapons.

In a video that aired in Pakistan yesterday, Davis could be seen and heard inside the Lahore police station moments after being taken into custody.

"I need to tell the embassy where I'm at," Davis says to several police officers who are seen inspecting the identification cards around his neck. "I work as a consultant there."

In a statement to ABC News, Ambassador Haqqani denied that the U.S. and Pakistan were "negotiating through threats."

"Both sides are trying to work out a way forward," said Haqqani. "Our countries are sufficiently close to handle an irritant in our relationship."

Pakistan: Captured US official 'in telephone contact with Islamic terror group'

A US official, detained in Pakistan after shooting dead two men, had made contact with Taliban-linked extremists in the country's lawless, tribal region, according to details of phone records leaked by the police.

Security sources have leaked a series of details suggesting that Raymond Davis (centre) may have had a clandestine role Photo: AFP

By Rob Crilly, Islamabad 11 Feb 2011

Sources close to the investigation said Raymond Davis, 36, had made a series of telephone calls to South Waziristan, a tribal area along the border with Afghanistan synonymous with militant activity.

The mystery surrounding Davis has deepened since he was arrested in Lahore two weeks ago. He has told police officers he shot dead two men in self defence.

The US insists he is a diplomat based at the embassy in Islamabad and should be granted immunity.

However, security sources have leaked a series of details suggesting that he may have had a clandestine role.

"His phone records clearly show he was in contact with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, for what reason we can only speculate," said a police officer, referring to a terrorist group with close links to the Pakistani Taliban.

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Hamid Gul, a former head of Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, said the phone calls suggested he was a secret agent.

"This is a classic intelligence technique – to get inside the head of the enemy," he said.

Davis, who is due to appear in court on Friday, is a former special forces soldier who left the US army in 2003 after 10 years of service, according to Pentagon records.

Mobile phone footage obtained by the Dunya TV channel shows him pleading for the return of his passport shortly after his arrest.

"I need to tell the embassy where I am at," he said, during a confused interrogation as police officers interrupt and laugh in the background.

He went on to tell them that he was working at the US consulate in Lahore "I just work as a consultant there, with the [Regional Affairs Office]," he said.

His arrest is deeply embarrassing to the governments of both Pakistan and the US, which has suspended some high-level talks in order to increase pressure on Islamabad.

THE TELEGRAPH

Dubious Doings

A consequence of the Lahore incident (in which a US national shot two Pakistanis dead and then unidentified, possibly US nationals, killed another Pakistani while trying to take away the one who had done the killing) is the firm media and public focus on US activities in Pakistan and questions about their intentions. Such doubts, misgivings, suspicions and rumors had been on the periphery but now they are center stage. At first they were based on police-US nationals’ encounters on the streets with the US nationals refusing to come out of their fortified vehicles as they disregarded local laws, now there is a serious incident and the proverbial cat is out of the bag.

The first ambiguity under discussion is the US policy to employ Drones for targeted killings in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The general perception is that these are being carried out under a US-Pakistan agreement that is best described as ‘accept and facilitate but deny and condemn’ on the Pakistan side and ‘continue but downplay and do not discuss’ on the US side. Reports of such attacks are now reported as a routine by the media and the public has been conditioned to accept them as unavoidable, even helpful in the fight against terror.  Criticism is muted and there are reports from the US that technological improvements have made collateral damage minimal. There has been no denial of media reports that such a policy exists. Perhaps it is time to reevaluate the policy and then remove ambiguities and state the facts.

The next widely held perception is that US Special Forces and CIA personnel have been given access to locate and take out terrorists within Pakistan. The exact extent of this access and how it is being used by the US is not clear. A report in the media indicating such an arrangement has not been denied. There have been many incidents in the past of US personnel stopped by police at check points refusing to submit to local laws. The ‘Davis’ incident was simply waiting to happen and there is no doubt that ‘Davis’ is a trained operative on a special mission under cover. The problem is that for the US he is a hero—someone operating behind ‘enemy’ lines in most hazardous circumstances. For Pakistanis he is a killer who was up to no good and the same goes for his ‘accomplices’. The fact that those killed may have been robbers or his contacts or intelligence personnel tailing him have all become secondary—he has become the symbol of US high handedness and tyranny against which Pakistan must stand up. The chance to nip the problem right at the outset has passed because the US representation in Pakistan flip flopped and did not cooperate. Public opinion and media power were grossly under rated and are still not being acknowledged because pressures and threats are aggravating the situation.

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Davis may also face espionage charge

By Qaiser Butt

Published: February 9, 2011

Pakistani police escort arrested US national Raymond Davis (C) to a court in Lahore. PHOTO: AFP/FILE

ISLAMABAD: In an interesting twist to the  Lahore double murder involving a US ‘diplomatic official’, prosecutors have recommended that an espionage case be also registered against him, sources said on Tuesday.

Raymond Davis is already facing charges for killing two Pakistani motorcyclists in a busy marketplace of Lahore on January 27.

“Keeping in view the nature of the case it is strongly recommended that a case of espionage be registered against Davis,” the prosecution branch of the Punjab police has written in an official letter to the investigation branch.

“During the course of investigation, police retrieved photographs of some sensitive areas and defence installations from Davis’ camera,” a source told The Express Tribune requesting anonymity. “Photos of the strategic Balahisar Fort, the headquarters of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Peshawar and of Pakistan Army’s bunkers on the Eastern border with India were found in the camera,” the source added.

The police had recovered a digital camera, a Glock pistol and a phone tracker along with a charger from Davis after his arrest. The Punjab government considers Davis a security risk after the recovery of the photos of sensitive installations, said the source.

The Obama administration has been pressuring Pakistan to release Davis who, according to it, “is a member of the administrative and technical staff of the mission” and therefore enjoys diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention.

“But Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has told American diplomats that the matter is sub judice and only the Lahore High Court (LHC) would decide whether or not Davis was entitled to diplomatic immunity,” an official source told The Express Tribune.

Sharif made the statement at a recent meeting with the US diplomats who sought Davis’ immediate release.

Citing a letter written by Interior Minister Rehman Malik to the Punjab government, the diplomats said that Davis had diplomatic immunity.

Sharif, however, denied his government had received any letter from the interior minister, according to the sources. Sharif advised the diplomats to wait for the LHC ruling on the diplomatic status of Davis.

A security official told The Express Tribune that Davis’ name did not figure on a list of US diplomats presented by the American embassy to the ministry of foreign affairs on Jan 25. But interestingly, his name figured prominently on another list submitted by the embassy to the ministry on Jan 28.

Diplomatic source told The Express Tribune that the foreign ministry’s viewpoint would be presented before the LHC whenever asked by the court.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 9^th, 2011.

Evidence Out: Raymond Allen Davis Is A Fake US Diplomat

Evidence Out: Raymond Allen Davis Is A Fake US Diplomat

How Can Someone Who Runs Hyperion Protective Consultants, LLC Be A Diplomat?

Raymond Davis worked in Pakistan as a special operations, intelligence and security contractor of CIA. His wife has told American journalists her husband told her to contact a CIA official if he fell in trouble. The case exposes CIA’s secret espionage network in Pakistan.

SYED ADEEB | Tuesday | 8 February 2011 | AdeebMedia.com
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 WASHINGTON, DC—Adeeb Media, the publisher of this exclusive report, hopes that all other Pakistani independent journalists of integrity will also highlight and discuss the following 10 major points of the AdeebMedia.com investigative report in their next television programs and newspaper columns to inform, educate and enlighten the Pakistani people about the whole truth and real facts of the RAD case:
Facts 

1. Raymond Allen Davis (code-name: RAD), an ‘official’ of the US Embassy Islamabad or the US Consulate Lahore, whose record shows experience in the U.S. 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 Pakistani Punjab Police arrested him on 27 January 2011, in Lahore, Pakistan, for double murder of two Pakistani men. CIA has declined to comment on the [RAD] case.
2. “American held in Pakistan has home in Colorado. Davis is currently renting a home with his wife in Highlands Ranch [Douglas County, (near Denver), Colorado] and Davis’ wife gave 9News, a local TV station, a name and number she says she was instructed to give to reporters. The name is that of a CIA spokesperson and the number is in Washington, DC. Calls to that number were not returned Wednesday.” – The Denver Post (2 February 2011 – Denver, Colorado, USA).
3. “US-Pakistan relations strained as ‘CIA agent’ held by court over shootings. The court is attempting to establish Davis’s role at the [US Islamabad] embassy, with unconfirmed reports in US and Pakistani media describing him as an agent with a private security firm or CIA. The [American] embassy has not said why he was carrying a gun and has refused to specify his job at the [US] embassy, describing him only as part of the “technical or administrative staff”. Pakistan does not allow diplomats to carry guns.” – The Guardian (1 February 2011 – London, UK).
4. “U.S.-Pakistan relations strained further with case of jailed ‘diplomat’. Further complicating the situation, a Pakistani intelligence official said that the two men Davis killed were not, as he has said, armed robbers intent on stealing money, his telephone and perhaps his car, but [Pakistani] intelligence agents assigned to tail him. This official said the two intended to frighten Davis because he crossed a “red line” that the official did not further define. Both the [Pakistani] military’s Inter-Services Intelligence service (ISI) and the Interior Ministry’s Intelligence Bureau [IB] regularly use motorcycle tails to track the movement of U.S. officials, another Pakistani official said.” – The Washington Post (7 February 2011 – Washington DC, USA). [NOTE: officials from the IB have denied the two murdered Pakistanis were intelligence operatives and said they might sue the Pakistani newspaper that published this story.]
5. According to his 2009 [Pakistan] visa application, [Raymond Allen] Davis was born in Wise, Virginia. He gave an address in Las Vegas, where he is listed in Nevada state registration records as the co-owner of a firm called Hyperion Protective Services.” – The Washington Post (7 February 2011).- Business Name: HYPERION PROTECTIVE SERVICES, LLC
   - Business Officer: 1st. Male Managing Member – Mr. RAYMOND A. DAVIS
   - Business Address: 9811 W. Charleston Ste 2-420, Las Vegas, Nevada,
   89117, USA
   - Business Officer: 2nd. Female Managing Member – Mrs. XXXXXXX X.
   DAVIS
   - Business Address: 9811 W. Charleston Blvd. #420, Las Vegas, Nevada,
   89117, USA
   - Business Managed By: Two Managing Members
   - Business Type: Domestic Limited-Liability Company (LLC) – Status:
   Active
   - Business Registration File Date: 30 May 2006
   - Business License Expires on: 31 May 2011
   - Business Entity Number: E0415802006-7 – NV Business ID:
   NV20061046806
   [AdeebMedia.com Information Source: Office of the Nevada Secretary of State Mr. Ross Miller.]
6. “Although the Obama-Biden administration has been unequivocal in its insistence that Davis has diplomatic status, the administration has been less than clear on the nature of his job in Pakistan over the last two years. An early US Islamabad embassy statement said it was “security” related, while officials in Washington have said that he vetted questionable visa applicants. The CIA has declined to comment on the RAD case.” – The Washington Post (7 February 2011).
7. America’s Denver Post daily newspaper reported on 2 February:“American held in Pakistan has home in Colorado The American [Raymond Allen Davis] accused of killing two Pakistani civilians [on 27-1-2011 in Lahore, Pakistan] has a home in Highlands Ranch [Douglas County, (near Denver), Colorado, USA], 9News has confirmed. The U.S. State Department is trying to get the man released, saying he has diplomatic immunity.
   Wednesday afternoon, multiple sources confirmed that Raymond Allen Davis has a home in Highlands Ranch. Davis’ security firm has filed paperwork to do business in Colorado.
   [Hyperion Protective Services, LLC. True Name and mailing address of the individual (female) causing this business document to be delivered for filing: Mrs. XXXXXXX X. DAVIS. Principal business head office address: 9811 W. Charleston Blvd., MB# 420, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89117, USA. Branch office business mailing address: XXXX Wedgewood Drive, Highlands Ranch, Colorado, 80126, USA. Date of conducting business activities in Colorado: 1 August 2010. Date of business formation in Colorado: 22 September 2010. Business ID Number: 20101521438. AdeebMedia.com Information [Source: Office of the Colorado Secretary of State Mr. Scott Gessler.]]
   Pakistani authorities are currently holding Davis on suspicion of murdering two Pakistani civilians [or 2 Pakistani "intelligence operatives"] last Thursday in Lahore, Pakistan. The U.S. State Department has spent the last few days trying to secure Davis’ release on a belief he has diplomatic immunity and that he was acting in self-defense.
   Davis is currently renting a home with his wife in Highlands Ranch and Davis’ wife gave 9News a name and number she says she was instructed to give to reporters. The name is that of a [US] CIA spokesperson and the number is in Washington, DC. Calls to that number were not returned Wednesday.
   Public records checked by The Denver Post indicate Davis, 36, and his wife have lived in the 9700 block of Wedgewood Drive [Highlands Ranch, Colorado, USA] since August, and he has previously lived in Las Vegas, [Nevada]; Lexington, Kentucky; Vail, Arizona; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and other previous locations.
   He is listed as the managing director of Hyperion Security Services LLC since April 2008, and the business address was the same as Davis’ home in Arizona [USA].
   Its online business profile says Hyperion is engaged in “detective, guard and armored car services” and employs two people.
   Pakistani media is covering the case extensively and multiple, sizeable rallies have been held inside Pakistan calling on the Pakistani [PPP federal and PML-N Punjab] government not to release Davis to the American government. One Pakistani newspaper, The Nation, has repeatedly called Davis “an American Rambo.”
   A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department refused to confirm the man’s identity, but said the U.S. government is currently trying to bring the man home.”
8. U.S. Demands Highlands Ranch Man’s Release In Pakistan“7NEWS has confirmed Davis is from Highlands Ranch. We tried talking with his wife, but so far, she is not commenting. Neighbors tell 7NEWS she fears her own life might be in jeopardy. 7NEWS also confirmed Davis owns a security company called Hyperion Protective Consultants, which is contracted to do work for the U.S. government. The Pakistani brother of one of the shooting victims said Davis should be hanged or he will take matters into his own hands.
   “We are surprised that he has been given an open license to kill Pakistani people. And the American government – they are declaring him as a diplomat. Even a diplomat is not allowed to make such killings”, said one Pakistani man. – [3 February 2011 - ABC 7NEWS]
9. American Official Involved in Pakistan Shooting Identified“Sources Identify ‘Technical Adviser’ With Special Forces Experience Involved in Apparent Self-Defense Killing (ABC NEWS – 28 January 2011 – USA) – Though the U.S. State Department and Pakistani officials are at odds over the identity of a U.S. consular employee accused of killing two Pakistani men, private security officer Raymond [Allen] Davis was involved in the incident, sources told ABC News today [28 January 2011].
   Davis, a “technical adviser” to the U.S. government, whose record shows experience in the U.S. [Military] Special Forces, is accused of shooting two men who were apparently attempting to rob [or monitor] him Thursday in Lahore [Pakistan]. A third Pakistani man was killed when a [US Lahore Consulate] vehicle struck him while reportedly racing to the American’s aid.
   Pakistani officials named Davis as the accused American to ABC News, in reports and in court documents Thursday, but [US] State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the name had been misreported. A source close to Davis told ABC News today he was involved in the incident.  
   Court documents filed in Lahore list Davis as charged with murder. A trial will determine whether the killing was intentional, accidental, or in self-defense.
   After denying the man’s name is Raymond [Allen] Davis, State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley would not say who the accused government employee is, in what capacity he worked for the [US] Embassy [in Islamabad, Pakistan], or why he was apparently carrying a [prohibited/unlawful] firearm.  
   “I can confirm that an employee at the U.S. Consulate in Lahore was involved in an incident today,” Crowley said Thursday. “It is under investigation. We have not released the identity of our employee at this point.” 
   Davis runs Hyperion Protective Consultants, LLC, a company that provides “loss and risk management professionals.”
   Since it is not known in what capacity Davis was working for the [US] government, it is not clear whether he is entitled to diplomatic immunity. 

[News/Info Source: Adeeb Media - AdeebMedia.com - Virginia, USA - (8 February 2011).]
Adeeb Media is an online news service run by Syed Adeeb. Geo News talk show host Hamid Mir aired parts of this report on his show yesterday.

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