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doodle
03-09-2011, 04:32 PM
Another forum member asked this question and I could not find an easy answer consistent with US stance under human rights conventions.

Some shocking reports in US and international online news media on Raymond Davis. Despite giving billions in aid, Obama's call for his release at once weeks ago has fell on deaf ears it appears as he is still being held in a prison:



Panic in the US government is increasing day by day which clearly suggest that Davis has some very critical information to reveal, the information which seems to be very much related to the US operation in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and this is what Pakistan’s security establishment is very keen to know. Davis must be screened and squeezed in order to get out the information which can be come out of him. About Davis as every body is suspicious that it’s not his real name so his real identity is yet to come and that must come out that for whom and with whom he was working for? What type of spy game is going in Pakistan ? These critically questions need to be answered.


(In any event, after the Guardian went with the story, the Administration told the Times that it needed twenty-four hours to get the Pakistanis to put him in a safer facility; if it took the Guardian story to persuade the Pakistanis, could one in the Times have facilitated a move weeks earlier?)

Or is the idea that the attacker wouldn’t be a rogue guard, but an Pakistani government operative sent to take him out, or maybe torture him for intelligence?




The CIA Operative Who Shot Two Pakistanis Is Now A Hostage -- Obama Needs To Resolve This Quickly
John Ellis | Mar. 1, 2011, 11:00 AM

Mr. Davis's "trial" on murder charges re-convenes on Thursday, 3 March. If that "trial" is allowed to go forward, the political reaction against the Obama Administration in the United States will be ferocious.



Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2011/02/keeping-quiet-about-davis.html#ixzz1G23JepS2

http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=79344

http://www.businessinsider.com/american-held-hostage-raymond-davis-2011-3#ixzz1G23zKzWj