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And Clinton claimed the US

we are stardust — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:55:48 +0000

In reply to Pakistan court releases Raymond Davis

And Clinton claimed the US didn't pay the blood money; she parsed it carefully, it seems, according to Josh Rogin:

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/16/who_paid_the_blood_money_to_set_raymond_davis_free

That's been my assumption

acanuck — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:15:13 +0000

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That's been my assumption from the start, appraiser -- that these guys were ISI "handlers" or liaisons to Taliban groups or leaders. It puzzles me that the CIA may have thought it worth the risk to carry out direct hits on them, since that would hardly make a dent in the ISI's overall strategy of double-dealing. President Zardari was really keen to recognize the bogus claim of diplomatic immunity until a powerful minister publicly broke with him on the issue.

I forgot to put on the old

artappraiser — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:34:33 +0000

In reply to Pakistan court releases Raymond Davis

I forgot to put on the old thread where we were discussing this the other day that I strongly suspect the victims were working for the ISI (and have read as much in some Pakistani sources in the past, though things like that can never be trusted.) It fits with him being a big cheese and risking putting himself in the spot he ended up being in by doing what he did. It also fits with this news today. The Pakistanis really didn't want to get into all of that in a trial, but they also needed to attend to public outrage by making a show about it all for an extended length of time.