Exclusive: The Deepening Mystery of Raymond Davis and Two Slain Pakistani Motorcyclists
Mon, 02/07/2011 - 22:45 — Anonymous
by:
Dave Lindorff
The mystery of American Raymond A. Davis, currently imprisoned in the custody of local police in Lahore, Pakistan and charged with the Jan. 27 murder of two young men, whom he allegedly shot eight times with uncanny accuracy through his car windshield, is growing increasingly murky. Also growing is the anger among Pakistanis that the US is trying to spring him from a Punjab jail by claiming diplomatic immunity.
Davis (whose identity was first denied and later confirmed by the US Embassy in Islamabad), and the embassy have claimed that he was hired as an employee of a US security company called Hyperion Protective Consultants, LLC, which was said to be located at 5100 North Lane in Orlando, Florida. Business cards for Hyperion were found on Davis by arresting officers.
However Counterpunch Magazine has investigated and discovered the following information:
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/442
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There was also something else police found that is profoundly puzzling and disturbing: a camera loaded with pictures of dozens of madrassas (religious schools) and other buildings around Lahore, as well as with photographs of Pakistani military installations, some on the critical borders with India and Afghanistan. The photos have reportedly led prosecutors to ask that espionage be added to the list of charges facing Davis.
This was not the run-of-the-mill armament for an embassy security guard (one of the various titles (covers?) that the State Department has claimed for Davis at the Lahore Consulate).
If that was the accepted standard for shooting someone in Texas or Arizona, half the residents of the state would be shooting the other half. It’s also a pretty lame justification for shooting two people in the back!
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/450
Mon, 02/07/2011 - 22:45 — Anonymous
by:
Dave Lindorff
The mystery of American Raymond A. Davis, currently imprisoned in the custody of local police in Lahore, Pakistan and charged with the Jan. 27 murder of two young men, whom he allegedly shot eight times with uncanny accuracy through his car windshield, is growing increasingly murky. Also growing is the anger among Pakistanis that the US is trying to spring him from a Punjab jail by claiming diplomatic immunity.
Davis (whose identity was first denied and later confirmed by the US Embassy in Islamabad), and the embassy have claimed that he was hired as an employee of a US security company called Hyperion Protective Consultants, LLC, which was said to be located at 5100 North Lane in Orlando, Florida. Business cards for Hyperion were found on Davis by arresting officers.
However Counterpunch Magazine has investigated and discovered the following information:
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/442
.............................................................
More...............
There was also something else police found that is profoundly puzzling and disturbing: a camera loaded with pictures of dozens of madrassas (religious schools) and other buildings around Lahore, as well as with photographs of Pakistani military installations, some on the critical borders with India and Afghanistan. The photos have reportedly led prosecutors to ask that espionage be added to the list of charges facing Davis.
This was not the run-of-the-mill armament for an embassy security guard (one of the various titles (covers?) that the State Department has claimed for Davis at the Lahore Consulate).
If that was the accepted standard for shooting someone in Texas or Arizona, half the residents of the state would be shooting the other half. It’s also a pretty lame justification for shooting two people in the back!
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/450