Twelfth Bough

UPDATE: A13 has more on the latest arrest of Aaron Mark Dehaven aka Ahmed Haroon HERE. Also see Penny's posts, here and here. ^^^^^^^ A round up of the Raymond Davis jail situation... "FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2011 file photo, supporters of Pakistani religious party Jamat-e-Islami attend a rally against Raymond Allen Davis, a U.S. consulate employee suspected in a shooting, in Lahore, Pakistan. The Associated Press has learned that an American jailed in Pakistan after the fatal shooting of two armed men was secretly working for the CIA. The arrest last month of 36-year-old Raymond Allen Davis has caused an international diplomatic crisis. The U.S. has repeatedly asserted that Davis had diplomatic immunity and should have been released immediately. But former and current U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to talk publicly about the incident, told the AP that Davis had been working as a CIA security con...

UPDATE: Marc Grossman, who took over for the late Richard Holbrooke, is sorry but he doesn't have answers to some of the questions. Ambassador Grossman emphasized that, "US was not walking away from the region". He said that US would stand by Pakistan and will also work with the armed forces to defeat the terrorist forces. Besides making the usual statements about US desiring a peaceful, stable and prosperous Pakistan, the visiting ambassador made an interesting observation when he remarked, "US-Pakistan relationship must be based on mutual interest, challenge is to find that mutual interest". The paucity of time did not allow for asking the ambassador that clearly someone must have moved the goal posts in the recent weeks otherwise everyone had been led to believe that the two governments had agreed on mutual-interests a long time back. Ten years down the road, fighting a full-scale war against a commonly identified enemy, billions being poured ...

UPDATE: Moon over Alabama notes that: "So while there was an uninterrupted campaign of drone strikes on Pakistani ground every three days for several month, taking Mr. Davis off the street seems to have stopped it." Click through. Read the comments too. ^^^^^^^ We see some bubbles percolating up from Mexico and South America, and we see the "revolutions" spreading around in the Middle East, but we want to take a look at this Raymond David case. Penny was right on it. Raymond Davis killed two Pakistani's. He claims it was self-defense. I think it was something else. Raymond Davis, supposedly has diplomatic immunity? I wonder, when it is that mercenaries have diplomatic immunity? Since when are mercenaries, diplomats? Why mention mercenaries at all? Because, Raymond Davis is a mercenary. Yes, a mercenary. Hired Killer. Great links. This Raymond Davis makes David Coleman Headley look like he was playing dress up. The tight pattern of bullet...

Following up on the Raymond Davis case.... The other day we noted the possibilities under discussion for releasing Davis. 1. Trading Davis for Aaifa Siddiqui, which the US refuses to consider because she is innocent and therefore she can never be released lest she reveal the ABSOLUTELY DIABOLICAL treatment she has endured at the hands of the US military and judicial systems. 2. Quashing a case brought by the relatives Rabbi Gavriel Noah Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who were both gunned down by militants at the Chabad House in Mumbai against the ISI chief in a New York court. 3. Paying blood money to the victims’ families, who under a Pakistani law can pardon Mr Davis if asked. Apparently the favored route is paying blood money. Would it be too much to ask to set an innocent woman free, whose life has already been destroyed, or to ask some Chabadniks to drop their lawsuit? Apparently yes. Better to pay blood money and make the problem go away. That's the sort of creati...

March 14: We will be traveling for a week, no posts. James of Winter Patriot Community may make a guest appearance, or not. Otherwise we will return next week. Peace to all our friends across the globe. ~ APea. ^^^^^^^ Brawny Ray Davis waits in jail. No paper-shuffling diplomat, Ray is a stud. Ray had been working to save us when he very unfortunately got caught up in this diplomatic kerfuffle after regrettably shooting two people dead on a busy street in broad daylight. Ray's pay stub   Regrettably, Pakistan has so far refused to release Ray. Washington makes threatening noises. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher sponsored the following legislation, H.RES.145: Calling on the Government of Pakistan to release Raymond Davis. Whereas, on January 27, 2011, Raymond Davis was attacked by two armed men in Lahore, Pakistan; Whereas Raymond Davis shot and killed both men in self-defense; Whereas Raymond Davis is a United States veteran and former Special Forces soldier; Whereas President ...

A narrative we have followed for a long time is progressing. Some recent posts about this narrative: http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/2011/07/team-effort.html http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/2011/07/spandex-on-hudson.html http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/2011/07/gassing-up-narrative-hot-air-balloon.html http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/2011/05/wheel-of-misfortune.html The narrative says that Hezbollah threatens the US from Latin America. Specifically, Hezbollah -- a proxy of Iran and a terrorist organization according to the US -- has tentacles from Iran to Lebanon to West Africa to South America's TBA. That much has been long established. The progression of the narrative covered earlier in 2011 brings the tentacles up through Isla de Margarita off the coast of Venezuela, to Central America, and into the US via organized crime. So the story goes. Generally how these narratives work is that a very minor thing is stretched into something that looks like compelling evide...