Where to? What now?
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| Aldrin Cardon |
Not a few, perhaps, have noticed the quickening hoofbeats of CIA operations in Pakistan when one of its operators named Raymond Davis was charged with killing two locals whom he accused of allegedly trying to rob him early this year.
The Davis case somehow soured US-Pakistan relations as American interest was on the line when Pakistani authorities insisted in putting Davis to trial, to which the US objected.
The Davis case was somehow parallel to that of another CIA operator who lost a limb when the bomb he was assembling in a hotel room in Davao accidentally set off. Nothing was heard of since from that CIA man soon after his presence was detected at the height of local political uncertainties brought about by the combined problems of poor national leadership, upheavals in the military and the threat from internationally-affiliated terrorist groups based in Mindanao.
Barely four months after the Davis caper, no less than US President Obama announced a “successful raid” in what was otherwise deemed an improbable Bin Laden hideout in Pakistan, coming May Day that is believed to have broken the al-Qaeda’s back..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110504com6.html
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