US embassy employee Raymond Davis. © Arif Ali/AFP/Getty ImagesA Shooting in Pakistan Reveals Fraying Alliance -- New York Times
WASHINGTON — Inside a dark jail cell on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, a brawny 36-year-old American from the mountains of southwest Virginia has sat for weeks as Pakistan began proceedings against him on murder charges and his own government made frantic attempts to secure his release.
Late in January, Raymond A. Davis — a covert security officer for the Central Intelligence Agency and onetime Green Beret — unloaded a Glock pistol into two armed Pakistanis on a crowded street in Lahore, according to a Pakistani police report. His case was to move forward in court as early as this week.The shooting complicated American attempts to portray Mr. Davis as a paper-shuffling diplomat who stamped visas as a day job; generated an extraordinary swirl of recriminations and for many Pakistanis confirmed suspicions that America has deployed a secret army of spies and contractors inside the country.
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My Comment: The facts speak for themselves .... Pakistani support of Lashkar-e-Taiba exposes them as a state sponsor for terrorism. Couple this with a Pakistani public that has been programmed for years to have a hostile approach towards the U.S. .... one will quickly realize that the normal rules do not apply within Pakistan. As for CIA contractor Raymond Davis, he should start to prepare himself that he may be stuck in Pakistan for a very long time.
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