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| US diplomats transporting weapons arrested in Peshawar |
| 2012-06-05 |
| The Pakistani police have arrested three US diplomats in the city of Peshawar for possession of illegal arms. Police officials told Dawn TV that the diplomats, along with three Pakistani nationals, were stopped at a routine checkpoint at the entrance to the Peshawar Motorway on Monday but they refused to allow the police to search their vehicles. The police checked the "suspicious cars" anyway and discovered several assault rifles, pistols, and ammunition. That's a diplomatic violation by both sides. Diplomats aren't supposed to be armed (though their bodyguards can be), and the Pak police aren't supposed to 'inspect' diplomatic property. US Consul General Mary Richard visited the police station where the US nationals are being held for questioning and told the police they could keep the weapons but asked them to release the US diplomats. In January 2011, Raymond Davis, a CIA agent operating under the cover of a diplomat, shot and killed two Pakistanis in Lahore, triggering a diplomatic crisis. Pakistan charged him with murder, but Washington insisted that he was an "administrative and technical official" attached to its Lahore consulate and had diplomatic immunity. Davis was finally allowed to leave Pakistan in March 2011 after a $2.4 million diyya (a form of monetary compensation or blood money) was paid to the victims' families. After the Davis incident, Islamabad ordered all CIA agents to leave the country, but according to local sources, there are still scores of CIA agents working in Pakistan. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #9 Davis was NOT the COS - not even close. At the risk of being the pedantic inter-nerd, the issue was acting COS. (not being argumentative, maybe just heard too many over-lawyered disclaimers that depend on what the meaning of 'is' is) Part of the fun of playing at Open Source Intelligence Analyst, Jr. Grade here at the 'Burg is trying to filter and synthesize signal from all the noise, spin and data. I recognize that we have Rantburgers who actually know stuff about stuff - whether they can talk about it or not. We are still left with the interesting question of why the ISI sent two (inept) mooks to whack a CIA guy. (yeah, assuming it was the ISI) |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-06-05 19:29 |
| #8 You mean this man, I think, Rob06. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-06-05 18:23 |
| #7 Does this mean we can toss (search) the Pakistani offices at the U.N.? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2012-06-05 16:24 |
| #6 I recall that Pakistani that stood in the street and gunned down CIA employees on their way into the office in Virginia back in the late 1990's I think. Wasn't he on the ISI payroll too? |
| Posted by: Rob06 2012-06-05 16:05 |
| #5 I wish David HAD been the COS. Whahhaha |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-06-05 08:43 |
| #4 Wasn't Mr. Davis a CIA contractor? And the two unfortunate locals were on the ISI payroll, if I recall correctly. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-06-05 07:19 |
| #3 The impression I got was Davis was acting CIA station chief. Two guys tried to whack him and ended up on the wrong side of dead. Davis was NOT the COS - not even close. |
| Posted by: Bangkok Billy 2012-06-05 05:36 |
| #2 Is there anyone who says, "I want to be an American in Peshawar without a firearm"? |
| Posted by: whatadeal 2012-06-05 04:11 |
| #1 In January 2011, Raymond Davis, a CIA agent operating under the cover of a diplomat, shot and killed two Pakistanis in Lahore, triggering a diplomatic crisis. The impression I got was Davis was acting CIA station chief. Two guys tried to whack him and ended up on the wrong side of dead. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-06-05 02:03 |