Pakistan denies unmasking US spy (CIA station chief in Islamabad)

[Turborama]

Source: Al Jazeera English

Last Modified: Dec 18 2010 15:38 GMT

Pakistan's top spy agency has denied blowing the cover of a US spy chief in Islamabad who was forced to leave the country following death threats.

The CIA station chief was recalled after he was reportedly named in a legal complaint filed by the family of victims killed by suspected US drones.

The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) on Saturday denied helping to unmask the US spy, dismissing speculation it was retaliating for a US lawsuit linking Pakistan's intelligence chief to the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India. An ISI official warned that such allegations risk raising tensions between the already uneasy allies.

The station chief's name was revealed in the suit filed by Kareem Khan, a tribesman from the North Waziristan region, who sued the CIA over the deaths of his son and brother in a 2009 US missile strike.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/12/2010121814219415384.html

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[truth2power]

1. What??? A CIA spy's name was revealed? Arrest that man...

File rape charges against him. :sarcasm: in case it's needed.

[bemildred]

2. Hmm. I just don't know who to believe, suppose they were both liars. nt