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410
Firecreek Ltd.
:
See records of Firecreek Ltd.'s lobbying on behalf of Kestral-USA, Lobbying Disclosure Act Database, accessed December 2012,
http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=submitSearchRequest
.

410
called it “conspiratorial
”:
Transcript, “DoD News Briefing with Geoff Morrell from the Pentagon,” November 24, 2009.

411

personal consent, Chief of Army Staff General Kayani
”:
US diplomatic cable 09IS-LAMABAD2449, from Ambassador Anne W. Patterson, US Embassy Islamabad, “Pakistan Army GHQ Again Approves Embedding,” October 9, 2009, released by WikiLeaks,
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/10/09IS-LAMABAD2449.html
.

411

forward operating troops
”:
Author interview, Special Operations source, December 2010.

411
detailed information on refugee camps
:
US diplomatic cable 08ISLAMABADS113, from Ambassador Anne W. Patterson, US. Embassy Islamabad, “Taskings for IDP/Refugee Information,” October 6, 2008, released by WikiLeaks,
http://cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=08ISLAMABAD3183&q=for%201dp-refugee%20information%20taskings
.

412
Forward Operating Base Chapman
:
See Joby Warrick,
The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA
(New York: Doubleday, 2011).

412

Patient relationship-building
”:
Ambassador Anne W. Patterson, “Pakistan Army GHQ Again Approves Embedding.”

412

well, we don't
”:
Times Wire, “Bomb Exposes U.S. in Pakistan,”
Tampa Bay Times
, February 10, 2010.

412
civil lawsuit
:
Aliza I. Kassim, “Pakistan Defies U.S. Court in Lawsuit over Mumbai Attacks,”
CNN.com
, December 30, 2010.

412
blew his cover
:
Greg Miller and Karin Brulliard, “CIA's Pakistan Chief Removed,”
Washington Post
, December 18, 2010.

413

terrorist threats against him
”:
Ibid.

413
Davis returned to Pakistan
:
Kharal, “Retracing the Path.”

46: The Curious Case of Raymond Davis: Act II

414
five CIA security personnel
:
Asad Kharal, “Retracing the Path: Trailing Raymond Davis,”
Express Tribune
(PAK), February 22, 2011; Matthew Cole, “Raymond Davis Is CIA Contractor, U.S. Officials Say,”
ABCNews.go.com
, February 21, 2011.

414
also used the house
:
Author interview, former Blackwater executive, March 2011.

414
gathering intel on the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba
:
Mark Mazzetti, “A Shooting in Pakistan Reveals Fraying Alliance,”
New York Times
, March 12, 2011.

414

area familiarization route
”:
Cole, “Raymond Davis Is CIA Contractor.”

414

It's acting without a script
”:
Author interview, Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer, May 2011. All statements and information attributed to Lieutenant Colonel Shaffer are from the author's interview, unless otherwise noted.

414

blood chit
”:
Raja Riaz, “‘Raymond Davis Tried to Trick Investigators,'”
Daily Times
(PAK), February 15, 2011. The police report describes it as a “chit of the embassy.”

414

small sheet of material
”:
Joint Publication 3-50, Personnel Recovery, January 5, 2008, IV-8,
www.dtic.mil/dpmo/laws_directives/documents/joint_pu_3_50.pdf
.

414

after all other measure(s)
”:
Department of Defense memorandum, “Department of Defense Policy on Blood Chits,” July 20, 2006,
www.dtic.mil/dpmo/personnel_accounting/documents/dod_policy_on_blood_chits.pdf
.

415
crossed “a red line
”:
Nick Schifrin, “Did Ray Davis Shoot Two Pakistani Agents?”
ABCNews.go.com
, February 9, 2011.

415

belonged to the security establishment
”:
Kamran Yousaf, “Raymond Davis Case: Men Killed in Lahore Were Intelligence Operatives, Says Official,”
Express Tribune
, February 5, 2011.

415
emphatically denied
:
“Agencies Rule Out Any Link with Lahore Killing Incident,”
News International
, February 8, 2011.

415
new chief of station
:
Rob Crilly, “Raymond Davis ‘Was Acting Head of CIA in Pakistan,'”
Telegraph
, February 22, 2011.

415

a blessing in disguise
”:
Qaiser Butt, “‘CIA Agent Davis Had Ties with Local Militants,'”
Express Tribune
, February 22, 2011.

416

Davis's job
”:
Ibid.

416
false flag bombings
:
Ibid.

416

All countries conduct espionage
”:
Colonel W. Patrick Lang, comment thread for post by Brigadier (Ret.) F. B. Ali, “#Update: The Raymond Davis Affair,” Sic Semper Tyrannis (blog),
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2011/02/update-the-raymond-davis-affair-fb-ali.html
.

416

a paper-shuffling diplomat
”:
Mazzetti, “A Shooting in Pakistan Reveals Fraying Alliance.”

417
drawn up plans
:
Marc Ambinder and D. B. Grady,
The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army
(Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2012, Kindle edition).

417

detect, disarm, disable, or seize WMD
”:
Glenn W. Goodman Jr., “Deep Underground Tunnels: Counterproliferation Mission Takes SOF Commandos into Tough New Environments,”
Armed Forces Journal
, accessed November 2012,
www.specialoperations.com/Literature/AFJI/CP.htm
.

417

second phase of the JSOC influx
”:
Brigadier (Ret.) F. B. Ali, “The Fallout from the Davis Affair,” Sic Semper Tyrannis (blog), March 1, 2011,
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2011/03/the-fall-out-from-the-davis-affair-fb-ali.html
.

418

following a government directive
”:
Kathy Gannon and Adam Goldman, “Pakistan's Intelligence Ready to Split with CIA,” Associated Press, February 23, 2011.

418
more than 3,500 visas
:
Karin Brulliard, “In Aftermath of Shooting, Rising Skepticism About American Presence in Pakistan,”
Washington Post
, February 22, 2011.

418

in a diplomatic capacity
”:
Asad Kharal, “After Davis' Arrest, US Operatives Leaving Pakistan,”
Express Tribune
, February 28, 2011.

418

special Americans
”:
Ibid.

418

The ‘official' version
”:
Ali, “The Fallout from the Davis Affair.”

418
pierced his stomach
:
Riaz, “‘Raymond Davis Tried to Trick Investigators.'”

418
At least two shots
:
Declan Walsh, “A CIA Spy, a Hail of Bullets, Three Killed and a US-Pakistan Diplomatic Row,”
Guardian
, February 20, 2011.

419
photographed them
:
Ibid.

419
license plate
:
Asif Chaudhry, “US
Official Guns Down Two Motorcyclists in Lahore,”
Dawn.com
, January 28, 2011.

419
slammed into the motorcycle
:
Walsh, “A CIA Spy, a Hail of Bullets.”

419
made it two miles
:
Ibid.

419
Faletti's Hotel
:
Riaz, “‘Raymond Davis Tried to Trick Investigators.'”

419
destroyed all government documents
:
Cole, “Raymond Davis Is CIA Contractor.”

419

They have flown the coop
”:
Declan Walsh and Ewen MacAskill, “American Who Sparked Diplomatic Crisis over Lahore Shooting Was CIA Spy,”
Guardian
, February 20, 2011.

419
called for Davis to be hanged
:
“Rallies Demand Public Execution of Davis,” Dawn.com, February 12, 2011.

420

is not correct
”:
Riaz, “‘Raymond Davis Tried to Trick Investigators.'”

420
ordered held for six days
:
Karin Brulliard and Aoun Sahi, “U.S. Embassy Demands Release of ‘Unlawfully Detained' Diplomat Who Shot Two Pakistanis,”
Washington Post
, January 29, 2011.

420
The United States feared
:
Peter Bergen,
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden—from 9/11 to Abbottabad
(New York: Crown Publishers, 2012), p. 171.

420

Davis incident is a godsend
”:
“Stuck With You; a Clash Between Spy Agencies Is Boosting the ISI—but Is Doing Pakistan No Favours,”
Economist
, March 3, 2011.

421

I can confirm
”:
“American Kills Two Pakistanis in Lahore: US Embassy Spokesman Says Investigations Underway,” YouTube video, 3:53, footage from broadcast of Pakistan's Express 24/7 news network, posted by “theex-presstribune,” January 27, 2011,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXHjR12GGX0
.

421

employee of U.S. Consulate
”:
Glenn Kessler, “Who Is Raymond Davis?”
Washington Post
, February 22, 2011.

421

except in the case of a grave crime
”:
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 1963; created April 24, 1963 (entered into force on March 19, 1967), United Nations.

421

administrative and technical staff
”:
Kessler, “Who Is Raymond Davis?”

421

unresolved queries
”:
Baqir Sajjad Syed, “FO Did Not Grant Diplomatic Status to Davis: US,”
Dawn.com
, February 4, 2011.

421

I want blood for blood
”:
Babar Dogar (AP), “Shumaila Kanwal, Pakistani Woman, Commits Suicide After U.S. Shooting,”
Huffington Post
, February 6, 2011.

421

He was clean
”:
Rob Crilly, “Widow of Man Shot Dead by US Consul Official Commits Suicide,”
Telegraph
, February 7, 2011.

422

The arrest of this guy
”:
Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai, “Killings Spark CIA Fears in Pakistan,”
Newsweek
, February 17, 2011.

422

whatever else they are up to unilaterally
”:
Philip Giraldi, on comment thread for post by Brigadier (Ret.) F. B. Ali, “#Update: The Raymond Davis Affair,” Sic Semper Tyrannis (blog),
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sicsemper_tyrannis/2011/02/update-the-raymond-davis-affair-fb-ali.html
.

422

We continue to make clear
”:
Associated Press, “US Ups Pressure on Pakistan over Detained American,”
FoxNews.com
, February 8, 2011.

422
preparing to recognize
:
Ahmad Norrani, “Is Presidency Pushing for Backdated Immunity to Raymond?”
News International
, February 12, 2011.

422

Our expert opinion
”:
Shah Mahmood Qureshi, “Raymond Davis Does Not Enjoy Immunity,” YouTube video, 7:40, from coverage of a press conference held by Mr. Qureshi, broadcast on the Express 24/7 network, posted by “MrPoliticians,” February 17, 2011,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsF3HpHZdzc
.

422
snubbed Qureshi
:
Karen DeYoung and Karin Brulliard, “U.S.-Pakistan Relations Strained Further with Case of Jailed Diplomat,”
Washington Post
, February 8, 2011.

422

principled stance
”:
Qureshi, “Raymond Davis Does Not Enjoy Immunity.”

422
threatened to withhold
:
Shaun Tandon, “US Threatens to Cut Pakistan Aid over Shooting,” Agence France-Presse, February 8, 2011.

422

In an incendiary environment
”:
Asif Ali Zardari, “As Pakistan Battles Extremism, It Needs Allies' Patience and Help,” op-ed
Washington Post
, March 6, 2011.

423
three prisoners
:
Matthew Cole, “U.S. Fears for Life of Outed CIA Contractor in Pakistan Prison,”
ABCNews.go.com
, February 22, 2011.

423
tested for poison
:
Ibid.

423

I'm not answering any questions
”:
“New Video of Raymond Davis Interrogation by Punjab Police, Lahore, Pakistan—Watch-
GeoNews.com
,” YouTube video, 1:03, filmed interrogation of Raymond Davis by Punjab police, broadcast on February 15, 2011, posted by “feelpkcom,” February 15, 2011,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hye2lLBZfI
.

423

In our view, he acted in self-defense
”:
Agence France-Presse, “US Defends ‘Diplomat' Accused of Killing Two in Pakistan,”
Dawn
, February 1, 2011.

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