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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States launched 118 drone attacks in Pakistan last year, but managed to kill only two "most-wanted" terrorists, The Washington Post has reported.

http://gulftoday.ae/portal/542adc82-6123-4ec7-b455-dff651dd46a9.aspx



Pakistan: Teen 'victim' of US attack 'Stop drone use'

15-year-old Sadaullah lost both legs and an eye in a bombing in North Wazirstan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12511142



Extrajudicial Killing: US Kills 6 People In Pakistan

The officials said three missiles slammed into the house, killing four people. Two people were killed in the strike on the car. They did not identify the victims.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/nationworld/sns-bc-as--pakistan,0,6715038..story


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Pakistan: Suspected US drone strikes kill seven

RTT News

02/24/11

As many as seven people have been killed in two attacks by US pilotless aircraft in Pakistan's volatile north-western tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, reports said on Thursday. ... three missiles were fired at a residential compound in Dattakhel Mohammedkhel area near Miranshah in North Waziristan. Five people died in the attack .... two people were killed when a missile strike from another drone hit a vehicle proceeding towards the house that was targeted earlier...

http://www.rttnews.com/Content/GeneralNews.aspx?Id=1561390&SM=1


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Ein Angriff soll eine Million Dollar kosten, gezielt getötet würden aber kaum Führer der Militanten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/149315



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The NYT's Journalistic Obedience

By Glenn Greenwald

The NYT knew about Davis' work for the CIA (and Blackwater) but concealed it because the U.S. Government told it to. Now that The Guardian and other foreign papers reported it, the U.S. Government gave permission to the NYT to report this, so now that they have government license, they do so.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27539.htm



Pakistan: War And Corruption

US Diplomatic Cable Analysis

By Wikileaks World

'The relationship [between U.S. and Pakistan] is one of co-dependency we grudgingly admit--Pakistan knows the U.S. cannot afford to walk away; the U.S. knows Pakistan cannot survive without our support'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27538.htm



American predators in Pakistan

The people of Lahore now see CIA agents like game hunters, operating under paid immunity.

http://bit.ly/exYgkN



Raymond Davis 'was acting head of CIA in Pakistan'

A US intelligence agent arrested after shooting dead two men was the acting head of the CIA in Pakistan and had been gathering intelligence for drone attacks, according to intelligence sources.

http://bit.ly/eAkx90



US gives fresh details of CIA agent who killed two men in Pakistan shootout

US reveals that CIA agent Raymond Davis worked for private security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater.

http://bit.ly/gdRWKd



U.S. news outlets held back disclosing Davis' CIA ties

The New York Times, Washington Post, and Associated Press revealed they had been holding back that information at the U.S. government's request.

http://yhoo.it/h3w11T



The CIA's Killing Spree in Lahore

By Mike Whitney

Does Clinton know that after Davis shot his victims 5 times in the back, he calmly strode back to his car, grabbed his camera, and photographed the dead bodies?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27558.htm


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First US drone attack in a month kills at least seven, further testing diplomatic ties between Washington and Islamabad.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/02/20112218483631503.html



A CIA spy, a hail of bullets, three killed and a US-Pakistan diplomatic row

Barack Obama weighs in to Raymond Davis row as Pakistani anger grows over CIA agent blamed for civilian deaths in Lahore.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/20/cia-agent-lahore-civilian-deaths



American Held in Pakistan Shootings Worked With the C.I.A.

The New York Times had agreed to temporarily withhold information about Mr. Davis's ties to the agency at the request of the Obama administration, which argued that disclosure of his specific job would put his life at risk.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/world/asia/22pakistan.html?_r=1



Davis CIA's acting chief in Pakistan

Well-placed sources said that the highly-trained operative of the CIA was the second important man of the CIA in Pakistan after ex-station chief Jonathan Banks who left Pakistan after his cover was blown.

http://bit.ly/hqMw2a



14 killed in drone, missile attacks in SWA, NWA

By Pakistan Tribune

The villagers claimed all the victims were local tribes people and had no affiliation with the militants.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27545.htm


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Der ehemalige Leiter der für gezielte Tötungen zuständigen CIA-Rechtsabteilung gibt ein wenig Einblick in die Praxis der mit Drohnen exekutierten Todesurteile.

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By Chidanand Rajghatta

A mysterious halt to U.S Predator strikes on Pakistan after the Raymond Davis incident in Lahore has led to intense speculation the American "diplomat" was connected to the Drone program even as Washington and Islamabad are going eyeball-to-eyeball over his status.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27511.htm



Why Pakistan Cannot Release the Man Who Calls Himself Raymond Davis

By Shaukat Qadir

By now journalists everywhere (except in the US) have come to the conclusion that there is far, far more to Raymond Davis than is being revealed by the US or by Pakistani officials.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27516.htm



Probe finds connection between Davis, drone attacks

Sources have revealed that a GPS chip recovered from Davis was being used in identifying targets for drone attacks in the tribal region.

http://bit.ly/gy4zjF



Davis Case Has Thrown Overboard America's Rules On Terrorism

By Asif Haroon Raja

In USA if a person tortures a dog he is sent to jail, but a government functionary indulging in torture against fellow beings is ignored.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27546.htm


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Pause in US Pakistan Strikes Seen Linked to US Prisoner
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/20-2

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Pakistan: US drone kills five

Agence France-Presse

02/20/11

A US drone attack late on Sunday killed at least five militants in northwest Pakistan's lawless South Waziristan tribal district, officials said. The drone strike was the first since a US gunman shot and killed two Pakistanis in the eastern city of Lahore on January 27, triggering a diplomatic row between Pakistan and its key terror ally the United States...

http://tinyurl.com/4ef4z49


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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UK Guardian Reports Raymond Davis is Working for the CIA

Dave Lindorff, This Can't Be Happening: "A report in the British Guardian newspaper is confirming that Raymond Davis, the man jailed in Lahore, Pakistan charged with murdering two young Pakistanis who were almost certainly themselves working for Pakistan's intelligence agency, the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), is an employee of the CIA. The paper says that based upon its reporters' interviews with both Pakistani and US sources, it is 'confirming' that Davis is a CIA spy."

http://www.truth-out.org/uk-guardian-reports-raymond-davis-working-cia67951



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The US has broken off high-level contacts with Pakistan as it increases pressure on Islamabad to free an American official who shot dead two Pakistanis, according to sources from both countries.

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Pakistan defence photos found in US official's camera

"It is strongly recommended that a case of espionage be registered against Davis,' the prosecution branch of the Punjab police has written in an official letter to the investigation branch.

http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/742073/cs/1/



American's fake IDs, spy gadgets stoke Pakistani anger

The mystery about what Davis was doing with these gadgets has touched directly on Pakistani resentment of the large U.S. security presence. Such U.S. employees roam the country freely and are not answerable to the Pakistani authorities.

http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_17333655?nclick_check=1



US threatens to cut Pakistani aid if US gunman not released

US lawmakers threatened to cut aid to Pakistan unless it freed an American detained over a shadowy shooting, as Washington intensified pressure on its uneasy war partner.

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A new report from the Conflict Monitoring Centre (CMC) has reported that 2,043 Pakistanis have been slain in CIA drone strikes in the past 5 years, with the vast majority of them innocent civilians.

http://warisacrime.org/content/report-cia-drones-killed-over-2000-mostly-civilians-pakistan-2006


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The assassination of Salmaan Taseer has shown only too clearly the growing extremism in Pakistan. - This is not just between the religious and the secular, but also the polarisation that the "war on terror" has caused between the various religious sects.

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Pakistanis believe U.S. is destroying their country

America has a dilemma in Afghanistan in that there is really no face-saving formula for an exit. The Taliban are gaining more territory, and they more or less control the countryside.

http://www.toledoblade.com/article/20110110/COLUMNIST12/110109527/-1/NEWS



Pakistan governor's killing: 'hidden hands' at work

In her first interview following the assassination of her father, the daughter of Salmaan Taseer tells Chanel 4 News she believes there are many "hidden hands" behind his murder.

http://bit.ly/hxKyy5



US forced to import bullets from Israel as troops use 250,000 for every rebel killed

A government report says that US forces are now using 1.8 billion rounds of small-arms ammunition a year. The total has more than doubled in five years, largely as a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as changes in military doctrine.

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Anti-US rally held in Pakistan

Over 2,000 demonstrators in the tribal city of Miranshah held Washington and the US spy agency CIA, responsible for the soaring civilian deaths. They called for an immediate end to US missile attacks in North Waziristan region along the Afghan border.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/161258.html



Pakistan: thousands march against US drone strikes

More than 10,000 marched in the northwest Pakistan city of Peshawar Jan. 23 to protest US drone attacks, a day after at least 13 were killed in three drone strikes in North Waziristan region.

http://www.ww4report.com/node/9374


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Pakistan: US drone strikes kill 11

Times of India [India]

01/23/11

US drones carried out three strikes in the restive North Waziristan tribal region of northwest Pakistan today, killing 11 suspected militants even as tribesmen joined a protest in the area against the attacks...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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