"CIA agent Davis had ties with local militants," read the headline in The Express Tribune.The Tribune quoted an unnamed "senior police official" as saying Davis was suspected in mastermindingterrorist activity."His close ties with the TTP (The Pakistani Taliban) were revealed during the investigations," the paperquoted the police official as saying. "Davis was instrumental in recruiting young people from Punjab forthe Taliban to fuel the insurgency."The Star explains:In a story published Tuesday, the English-language Express Tribune quoted a Punjab police official whosaid Davis was actually working with the Pakistani Taliban in a bid to stoke insecurity in Pakistan andsupport the argument that its cache of nuclear weapons isnt safe.Call records of Daviss cell phone allegedly establish his link to 27 Taliban militants and a sectarian groupknown as
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
, the police source said.Reuters points out that two other CIA contractors were involved in a fatal car accident last month whiletrying to help Davis, and have now quickly departed from Pakistan, and notes:Two U.S. officials confirmed media reports the two men involved in the fatal accident were working andliving in the same building in Lahore as Davis. They said all three men were working on similar securityassignments for the CIA.Most dramatically, South Asian news agency ANI reports that - according to Russia's Foreign IntelligenceService - Davis was giving nuclear and bio-warfare materials to Al-Qaeda:Double murder-accused US official Raymond Davis has been found in possession of top-secret CIAdocuments, which point to him or the feared American Task Force 373 (TF373) operating in the region,providing Al-Qaeda terrorists with "nuclear fissile material" and "biological agents," according to areport.Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is warning that the situation on the sub-continent has turned"grave" as it appears that open warfare is about to break out between Pakistan and the United States,The European Union Times reports.The SVR warned in its report that the apprehension of 36-year-old Davis, who shot dead two Pakistanimen in Lahore last month, had fuelled this crisis.According to the report, the combat skills exhibited by Davis, along with documentation taken from himafter his arrest, prove that he is a member of US' TF373 black operations unit currently operating in theAfghan War Theatre and Pakistan's tribal areas, the paper said.While the US insists that Davis is one of their diplomats, and the two men he killed were robbers,Pakistan says that the duo were ISI agents sent to follow him after it was discovered that he had beenmaking contact with al Qaeda, after his cell phone was tracked to the Waziristan tribal area borderingAfghanistan, the paper said.The most ominous point in this SVR report is "Pakistan's ISI stating that top-secret CIA documents foundin Davis's possession point to his, and/or TF373, providing to al Qaeda terrorists "nuclear fissile material"
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