CIA hastily left Pakistan day agent where administration Obama Afghanistan war review concluded that the war could not be won without greater cooperation in Islamabad to hunt down militants in the mountains of Western Pakistan.
American officials said that the CIA station chief had received a number of death threats after he was publicly appointed a legal complaint was sent to Pakistani police this week by the family of the victims of the drone spy agency campaign strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas.
But officials said there was strong suspicion that powerful Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate spy service officers had a helping hand to reveal the identity of the agent of the CIA - perhaps in retaliation for a civil suit filed in Brooklyn, last month involving Chief I.S.I. in November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks.
American officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, does not immediately details in support of their suspicions.
A senior Pakistani official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the Pakistani Government "believes that the combination in New York City isn't a solid legal basis and is based on conjecture." "We didn't need to retaliate.
"As far as the Government of Pakistan and I.S.I.," he said: "we look forward to working with the Americans in the world of transnational threats, especially the common threat of terrorism security."
Intensification of mistrust between the CIA and I.S.I., two precarious but co-dependency allies, could not come at the worst possible moment. The Obama administration relies on support from Pakistan armed drone, program that launched this year a record number of strikes in North Waziristan against terrorism suspects.
"We will continue to assist the Pakistani capacity to eradicate terrorist", President Obama said Thursday. "Nevertheless, progress step came relatively quickly." We will therefore continue to insist on Pakistani leaders who terrorists sanctuary within their borders must be dealt with. »
Michael j. Morell, Deputy Director of the CIA, has met with Pakistani officials in Islamabad on Thursday, but officials said Americans that his visit is not the result of the case the head of the station.
The relationship between the spy services often was chafed in recent years. American officials believe that the officers .s. helped to plan July 2008 deadly India Embassy bombing in Kabul, as well as support its support to Lashkar-e-Taiba militant who carried out the attacks in Mumbai later this year.
The prosecution filed in Brooklyn, last month by the families of u.s. victims of Mumbai terrorist attacks, appoints Chief I.S.I., lieutenant general Ahmed Shuja Pasha, as accomplices in terrorist attacks.
The legal complaint appointed head of the station, who worked undercover and whose name is classified, filed Monday for attacks which killed at least two Pakistani. The complaint has sought aid police to keep the head of the station in the country until legal action may be filed.
Name of the agent had already indicated in a press conference last month by Mirza Frédéric Akbar, the lawyer who filed the complaint, this week, and the name had been reported in the local media.
Mr. Akbar said in an interview that he did not believe the security was the reason for leaving the CIA agent. "Obviously, his name was out in the open air and perhaps he feared the intervention of the police or a measure taken by the Supreme Court," said Mr. Akbar. The breach of security is assigned to the American drones lawless Pakistani tribal areas, has continued to intensify, with three strikes Friday, killing at least 26 activists, civil servants and intelligence Khyber attacks and a local tribes.
But the threats against the head of the station "were serious in nature that it would be imprudent not step to action," according to an official American intelligence who spoke on condition of anonymity.
George Little, a spokesman for the CIA would not confirm that the head of the station should leave Pakistan, but he said that "heads of station systematically meet risk work to ensure the security of America" and that "their security is obviously an absolute priority for the CIA, especially when there is an imminent threat.
Mr. Akbar, who said that the case would continue despite the absence of the head of the station represents Kareem Khan, a resident of North Waziristan who stated that his son and his brother were killed in a drone strike. The complaint also named Leon Panetta, the Director of the Agency and the Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates.
Mr. Khan, a resident of Mir Ali in North Waziristan, who was often a target drone, strikes seeks to 500 million dollars in compensation for the death, accusing the CIA clandestine operation United States Islamabad Embassy espionage agent. He also alleges that the CIA officer was in the country of a passport of the company.
"My brother and my son were innocent," Mr. Khan said in a recent interview. "There is no Taliban hiding in my house."
Mark Mazzetti reported from Washington and Salman Masood in Islamabad, Pakistan. Ismail Khan contributed reporting from Peshawar, Pakistan, Alan Cowell, Paris and j. David Goodman, New York.
This article has been revised to take into account the following correction:
Correction: 17 December 2010
An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to a lawyer representing shares a Pakistani man to death have been linked to drone attack. Counsel filed a complaint with the police in Islamabad Monday and had threatened to file a lawsuit last month. It has not yet filed the combination.
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