Normally questions of "guilt" are NOT for the police to decide.but Pakistan is Islamic.
B http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/13/AR2011021301 279.html?sub=AR Pakistan police report deems American official 'guilty' in shootings By Karin Brulliard and Aoun Sahi Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, February 13, 2011; 12:18 PM ISLAMABAD, Pakistan <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/pakistan.html?nav=el> - A Pakistani police report says an American Embassy official jailed in the killing of two Pakistani men is "guilty" of murder, citing investigators' findings that the official shot each victim five times, including in their backs, and lied to police about how he arrived at the scene of the incident. The five-page report, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Post, spells out law enforcement authorities' case against the official, Raymond Davis <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR201102110 1625.html> , which the police chief in the city of Lahore referred to two days ago as a "cold-blooded" killing. Davis, a former Army Special Forces soldier, has said he fired in self-defense as the men tried to rob him. The report, however, says that while the men were armed, no witnesses saw them point weapons at Davis. The top American official in Lahore, Carmela Conroy, disputed that Friday, faulting police for not considering what she said were eyewitness accounts of the stick-up, which were aired on Pakistani television in the day following the shooting. Two weeks after the incident, the police report serves as an official record of how deeply Pakistani officials are digging in their heels over the case, which has frayed the uneasy U.S. -Pakistan alliance <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/09/AR201102090 6775.html> . U.S. officials have repeatedly said Davis qualifies for diplomatic immunity and demanded his release, while Pakistan has said the matter is up to its courts. Statements issued in both countries over the weekend underscored the escalating diplomatic row <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR201102080 4485.html> . On Saturday, the State Department announced the postponement of a Feb. 23-24 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/12/AR201102120 2129.html> meeting in Washington between U.S., Pakistani and Afghan officials. The statement cited "political change" in Pakistan - where a new cabinet is being formed - but White House officials have said the change was prompted by the Davis dispute. In Pakistan on Saturday, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who was foreign minister until a cabinet reshuffle last week, broke his silence on the affair, telling a banquet and a newspaper that he had lost his job because he did not believe Davis qualified for diplomatic immunity. According to one Pakistani newspaper account, Qureshi told the dinner attendees that "when the national interests will demand, relationships can be severed." Speaking privately, some Pakistani officials say Davis - who the United States says was a security officer and member of the embassy's "administrative and technical" staff - clearly qualifies for immunity. But the fragile Pakistani government, viewed here as a U.S. lackey, has been loath to face what could be a destabilizing public backlash to Davis's release. Meanwhile, these officials say, a growing camp that includes the opposition-run government and police in Punjab province, where the shooting took place <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/27/AR201101270 1942.html?nav=emailpage> , is playing to public outrage over the issue in hopes of gaining leverage over the United States. U.S. officials here have maintained that two men on a motorcycle, both with criminal backgrounds, were seen holding up Davis while he was in his car at an intersection in Lahore. The men were found in possession of cash and a cellphone that they had stolen that day, American officials say. U.S. and Pakistani officials told the Washington Post last week that a police report corroborated that account. But the five-page police investigation report, which was written in Urdu and submitted to a municipal court in Lahore, does not reflect that. It was unclear Sunday whether the report was the same one earlier referenced by officials, or whether it had been changed. Citing witness statements, the report says Davis first shot at the two men from inside his sedan, then got out and shot twice more at one, Faizan Haider, as he ran. Davis then took photos and called the U.S. consulate before fleeing in his car and being apprehended by two traffic wardens, it says. The consular vehicle that came to Davis's rescue struck and killed an uninvolved motorcyclist on the way to the scene, police say. According to the report, Davis told police he came to the scene from the U.S. consulate, but a GPS tracker in his car indicated he came from his residence. Police previously said Davis told them he came from a bank. The men's bodies were found with five cell phones, two pistols and currency from Pakistan, Japan <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/japan.html?nav=el> , Oman and the Philippines, according to the report, which does not indicate where those items came from. Quoting autopsy results, the report says each man was shot twice in the back, and one was struck in the head. The report later contradicts that, saying each man was shot in the back three times. The shots to the back are cited in a list of reasons investigators rejected Davis's self-defense claim. The list also notes a lack of witness testimony attesting to a robbery; two empty bullet casings found outside Davis's car, indicating he shot offensively; and that the bullets in the victims' pistols were not in the chambers, ready to fire. "If it was an act in self-defense by the accused, he could have fired a shot or two on the lower parts of their bodies, such legs, as he was an expert in using arms," the report says. "The accused fired 10 shots, which negate his claim of acting in self-defense." Courtney Beale, a spokeswoman for the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, declined to comment Sunday on most of the contents of the report, but she noted that in the day following the shooting, Pakistani television aired interviews with people who said they witnessed a robbery. Those reports were quickly overtaken by conjecture about what are widely viewed here as the suspicious activities carried out by Davis, whose duties the U.S. embassy has not explained. Television stations have broadcast leaked photos, allegedly recovered from Davis's cellphone and camera, that include images of bridges, markets that have been bombed and the road leading to the border with India <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/india.html?nav=el> . Pakistani media also have fanned speculation about items found in Davis's car. The police report says those items included a Glock pistol, 75 bullets, a "survival kit," an infrared headlight and a telescope. Police have not located the other American vehicle that came to the scene, and U.S. officials have declined to comment on it. According to the police report, several items "fell" from the car as it sped away, including 100 bullets, a pair of gloves, a compass, a black face mask and "a piece of fabric with an American flag drawn on it." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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