US agent linked to 'Taliban, CIA and drone attacks'

Pakistani defense analyst and security consultant Zaid Hamid says that there is evidence that confirms the links between the detained U.S. undercover operative, Raymond Davis, with “CIA espionage and sabotage” as well as the “U.S. drone attacks” in Pakistan.

“The documents, photographs and the evidence that has come out from Davis' sofa almost confirms his links with Taliban terrorism…the attacks on ISI and the security establishment as well as the drone attacks,” Hamid said in an interview with Press TV's U.S. Desk on Saturday.

Raymond Davis is being detained in Pakistan on charges of gunning down two Pakistanis in Lahore on January 27.

“With this kind of evidence the issue is not just the assassination of those two boys on the streets of Lahore but it is an indication of a much larger network of CIA espionage and sabotage inside Pakistan,” he said.

“That is why we find that every day the Pakistani security establishment tightens the cordons around Davis,” the defense analyst added.

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The U.S. embassy and State Department have accused Pakistan of breaching international conventions by remanding in custody an official with diplomatic status.

Davis, 36, has reportedly told police he shot two motorcyclists in Pakistan in self-defense, believing they were planning to rob or kidnap him, after they approached his car at an intersection in Lahore on January 27.

Pakistani police, however, say that their findings refute the claims of self defense, and that Davis' shootings amounted to "cold-blooded murder." Antiwar

The incident led to a third death when a speeding U.S. consulate vehicle coming to the rescue of Davis overran a motorcyclist.

Further controversy surrounds U.S. claims of "diplomatic immunity" for the murders, which would not be the case if Davis is, as previously reported, a technical support staff for the consulate in Lahore. U.S. officials have begun referring to him as an employee of the embassy in Islamabad, however, which could theoretically give him such immunity. Antiwar

Furthermore, former Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, had pressurized him to sign a summary giving diplomatic immunity to American official Raymond Davis who is accused of a double-murder, but he refused to oblige. Sify

Earlier, the U.S. had threatened to oust the Pakistani ambassador and close down U.S. consulates in Pakistan if Islamabad did not immediately free Davis.

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