{"id":19052,"date":"2011-02-21T09:51:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T16:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=19052"},"modified":"2011-02-21T09:51:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T16:51:02","slug":"the-guardianuk-american-who-sparked-diplomatic-crisis-over-lahore-shooting-was-cia-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/02\/21\/the-guardianuk-american-who-sparked-diplomatic-crisis-over-lahore-shooting-was-cia-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian\/UK: American who sparked diplomatic crisis over Lahore shooting was CIA spy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American who shot dead two men in Lahore, triggering a diplomatic crisis between Pakistan and the US, is a CIA agent who was on assignment at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond Davis has been the subject of widespread speculation since he opened fire with a semi-automatic Glock pistol on the two men who had pulled up in front of his car at a red light on 25 January.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani authorities charged him with murder, but the Obama administration has insisted he is an &#8220;administrative and technical official&#8221; attached to its Lahore consulate and has diplomatic immunity.<\/p>\n<p>Based on interviews in the US and Pakistan, the Guardian can confirm that the 36-year-old former special forces soldier is employed by the CIA. &#8220;It&#8217;s beyond a shadow of a doubt,&#8221; said a senior Pakistani intelligence official. The revelation may complicate American efforts to free Davis, who insists he was acting in self-defence against a pair of suspected robbers, who were both carrying guns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/feb\/20\/us-raymond-davis-lahore-cia\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American who shot dead two men in Lahore, triggering a diplomatic crisis between Pakistan and the US, is a CIA agent who was on assignment at the time. Raymond Davis has been the subject of widespread speculation since he opened fire with a semi-automatic Glock pistol on the two men who had pulled up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}