UPDATE: Ray Davis has been pardoned in Pakistan after payment of compensation to victims' families, according to Sky News.
Pakistani TV says Davis has been flown to London. CNN says he remains in Pakistan, but the families have declined to press charges (via @mpoppel).
Davis paid $2.34 million in blood money, according to Breaking News.
EARLIER: Pakistan has indicted CIA contractor Raymond Davis on two counts of murder, according to police officials (via Andrea Mitchell).
This will further complicate efforts by the U.S. to get Davis out of the country.
On Monday Pakistan's high court declined to intervene in Davis' case, leaving a local court to decide whether he has diplomatic immunity.
Davis is accused of shooting two armed men when they approached his car in Lahore.
Of course, now that he is a cause celebre for the "Bourne Identity" retard's fantasies, that will never happen. Taxpayers pay the blood money, he gets the book deal.
Hell, every US embassy on the planet has an employee on staff known called the Station Chief. It is no secrect, anywhere, that these people are CIA case officers and because of their position at the embassy have diplomatic immunity.
Read. A. Book.
.. American CIA "contractor" ...
source -- http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hnIopUnUoJUu-w3L6DR8Fv88jk6g?docId=44bcc6b88a1b4c89903d4de0a657ccaf
Two days before Davis went on killing spree, the US Embassy had forwarded its annual lists of diplomatic and non-diplomatic staff in Pakistan to the Pakistan’s Foreign Office.
Raymond Davis was not on the diplomatic list. The day after the incident, the US Embassy resubmitted a revised list adding killer’s name to diplomatic list. When Pakistani police took Davis into custody, he had an ordinary American passport with a valid ordinary Pakistan visa, issued by the Pakistan Embassy in Washington. A day later, Pakistani police was approached by a Lahore Consulate staffer in a hush hush manner to exchange that passport with another one. The new passport was a diplomatic one with a valid diplomatic visa stamped by Pakistan’s foreign office, sometime in 2009. However, police did not oblige. Prosecutors have presented two letters from the US Embassy as evidence before the Lahore High Court.
Davis is a confirmed CIA agent and is on a special mission to harm Pakistan. He had served in Special Forces for ten years after which he opened a security company at Las Vegas Nevada with fake addresses. He was sent to Pakistan as a security contractor under the aegis of Blackwater in 2007 and was attached with US Consulate in Peshawar. During his two years stay he developed contacts in North and South Waziristan and made frequent trips.
At best the US has tried to list him as a "consular employee". International law fails to make provisions for embassy and consular employees who commit crimes while performing tasks outside their daily work responsibilities. The American government has, of yet, come up with an explanation why a two car convoy of armed men was heading across the city of Lahore.
Further reports from Pakistan indicate that phone found in Davis’ vehicle, had made calls to members of Tehrik i’ Taliban, a terrorist group that has killed hundreds in the past few months.
March 16th 2011:
THE REAL STORY
Press stories are largely inaccurate and incomplete. This is what actually happened according to high ranking sources in the Punjab police and government officials who wish to remain anonymous.
Tonight, Afzal, the uncle of Shumaila, the widow of one of the slain men who had committed suicide, went on Pakistani television. He told the audience, moments ago:
Family members were told they were being taken to the police station to make statements. Instead, they were taken to a secret location and held in isolation and told that unless they signed a letter pardoning Davis, “you will never see daylight.”
BACKGROUND
Senator John Kerry flew to Pakistan on February 16, 2011. He met with Punjab’s ruling duo, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and his brother Nawaz Sharif, heads of the PML, Pakistan Muslim League. Kerry announced that the release would occur in a few days, although families refused to meet with him.
Rana Sanaullah the Punjab Law Minister played the lead role. Sources in Pakistan indicate that government and police officials in Punjab received millions in CIA payoffs in the deal.
Both PML leaders, the brothers Shahbaz and Nawaz Sharif, left Pakistan for London earlier this week.
CIA:
Ray Davis is dangerous, you know what to do + without a peep, not a trace
US tourists be advised...
He was a spy and temporarily headed CIA operations in Pakistan. I can see why we wanted him back and made those claims, but he was emphatically not a diplomat.
PS- Not an American/Christian/Jew/Muslim/Isreali/Middle-eastern.
Grunt Grunt Grunt
they give him your name you are gone
did in the London bus bombings sometime back. I prayed this guy WHO PROBABLY ISNT
EVEN CALLED RAYMOND DAVIS (probably one of several aliases) will be brought to justice.
My prayers get answered so he will !!! Those poor poor young men.
I bet their families have been done away with too and the story about them getting green cards
and passports is a load of garbage. I just dont buy it. No one can find the families now.
USA gets away with anything but God has the final say and throws into hell so good luck with
that evil USA suckers. To Ed above on this thread.......1000s of muslims are becoming christians now by the way.
And not all are evil same as any country. Some crazy Pakistanis are more in the country areas
but young guys there today are more modern in the cities. There is no excuse for murder by an evil CIA agent.
Actually more were involved as another car sped away and killed another poor motorcylist in Pakistan too.
Im glad the world knows what USA and other countries are up to.
It's ironic-in discussions about Muslims, Christians, and/or Jews occupying what power centers in the world-Karma may ultimately be what rules in the end.
US Soldiers in the Sandbox will pay and pay for this... maybe an airliner, perhaps.
Petraeus is many admirable things and a true leader but a butcher of humans as many leaders often are.
Check it out at tarpley.net
These CIA people get great pay, travel and excitement, romance and book deals....all on the taxpayer.
And in return, the rest of the world HATES the USA because of these exploding cigar jokers. Dismantle the CIA monster. !!!
Raymond CIA Davis Released From Pakistan On BLOOD MONEY
http://300sploggers.blogspot.com/2011/03/couple-weeks-ago-i-wrote-about-raymond.html
Davis was aiding and abetting Anti-Pakistan Al-Qaeda franchisee the TTP ( Mehsudniks) !
Al-Qaeda is America and America is Al-qaeda !!
Nothing can the facts on the ground ! Its ugly but these are FACTS !!
Only nations of indebted idiots keep millions of people in prison for decades, no one else is so foolish.
ISI will get even have no doubt.
This sounds like total disinfo. And if the Pakistanis actually were stupid enough (or threatened enough by Uncle Scam or Hitlary) to pardon this guy before dosing him with sodium pentathol, to find out exactly what he and his "diplomat" friends are really doing in Pakistan, then all they're doing is inviting more of the same, and they'll likely get it.
We all know what the hells going down .....the US of A is neck deep in Al-Qaeda doodoo !!
Them koolaid drinking flag wavers just dont have the brain cells or honesty to admit it !!
how can ya ...when you speak in tongues .....then you think in tongues too !!