The following is a discussion of why we 'found' Osama, where, and when. Remember, Obama started planning the May 1st raid in March, while was filling out his brackets, son! He had the information prior to October of 2010, but didn't authorize planning until after this little James Bond slip up.
So i was doing some reading about this guy, Raymond Davis. He was arrested in Lahore, Pakistan for shooting dead two men who he claims 'brandished' a pistol at him. Differing reports say that he shot the men several times through the windshield of his car and then stepped out to shoot them again. They were ahead of him in traffic and had their backs to him. He called for assistance and a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado is said to have went across the median towards him and collided with and killed a motorcyclist before failing to reach Davis and fleeing the scene. This car was later revealed to have inconsistent license plates. Davis said that he was under the impression that the two men were robbing him and was acting is self defense. The Pakistani's claim that the two men he shot weren't street thugs out to rob foreigners, but Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agents.
The dichotomy of the U.S. official version and what the Pakistani's claim gets even wider as we go on. The problem I am having is over how the most important things, the implications, of what was going on here and why this is such a big deal. Maybe there is a reason why the Obama administration asked, specifically for the U.S. media to stand down on this one,
"A number of US media outlets learned about Davis's CIA role but have kept it under wraps at the request of the Obama administration. A Colorado television station, 9NEWS, made a connection after speaking to Davis's wife. She referred its inquiries to a number in Washington which turned out to be the CIA. The station removed the CIA reference from its website at the request of the US government."
Davis is a CIA 'contractor' as far as the media is concerned. Some describe him as a 'diplomat' others say he's there on 'official business', but reports started coming in that he "had ties with local militants" and that this discovery was made through his cell phone records. American officials said that, "Davis’s job was to trail links of the Taliban and al Qaeda in different parts of Pakistan." They found in his car, "158 items...which include a 9mm Gloc Pistol, five 9mm magazines, 75 bullets, GPS device, an infrared torch, a wireless set, two mobile phones, a digital camera, a survival kit, five ATM cards, and Pakistani and US currency notes." These all sound like things a 'diplomat' has and needs. The camera had pictures from the Indian border as well as Pakistani defense installments. The Pakistanis were immediately vindicated when the State Depatment released that Raymond Davis was merely an alias and not at all a diplomat and that he did not have diplomatic immunity and even if he did, murder is outside of those immunities. The CIA had nothing when they said that he had it and the Pakistanis knew it.
The man was very clearly a spy/mercenary who was caught red handed killing two people who were investigating him and his actions. Upon arrest there were reports that indicate him as being part of, "TF373," a covert operation on the Afghani border of Pakistan related to TFOrange and the SEAL team involved in the Abottabod operation on May 1st. These reports even go so far as to say that there was evidence of him selling 'nuclear fissle' and 'biological' materials. These allegations originate in claims from the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and are not widely reported in the Western media. The Pakistani's believe Davis is part of a concerted effort to make the Pakistani nuclear facilities and weapons appear compromised. Davis has since been released and sent home on what amounts to a 'blood money' deal paid to the family's of the deceased. This is, apparently, more or less a common practice in Pakistan.
To put this into perspective, we see that Osama was found using the same technique of tracing phone calls. The U.S. is trying pretty hard to do just what the Pakistani's are accusing the U.S. of trying to do. Namely, make their country look like it is overrun by terrorists that have access to nuclear weapons.
Interestingly enough, the Pakistani's tried (and failed) to use Davis to free a controversial detainee of our own, Aafia Siddique. She was accused, once upon a time, of funding Al Qaeda and having indirect links to the main plotters of 9/11 and was sentenced to 86 years in prison last year. Although these reports show deliberate misinformation planted in official military reports to absolve the military from any wrong doing she was still convicted. She is also suspected of being a prisoner, with no rights and no formal charges, in a secret unacknowledged prison in Afghanistan from 2003 to late 2008. What Amnesty International calls a 'ghost detainee'. And we all know that if it is not 'officially' reported, then it's probably not real.I don't know what I'd put past the U.S. Establishment. And when it comes to war with Pakistan the Chinese have taken their side. As our leaders have shown, they want Pakistan's nukes and have had active the units that they plan to get them with.
