Pakistani journalist who exposed military's links to Al Qaeda killed

by charvaka Tue May 31, 2011 10:43 pm

ISI murders a journalist who exposes the truth about its links to Al Qaeda.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/fg-pakistan-journalist-20110601,0,1719087.story
Pakistani journalist who wrote about military's links to Al Qaeda is found slain

Syed Saleem Shahzad had been missing since
Sunday. He recently wrote an article that claimed Al Qaeda had
infiltrated the navy, and he previously had complained of receiving
threats from the nation's intelligence community.

Shahzad, the Pakistan bureau chief for the Asia Times Online news
website, had recently written an article saying that Al Qaeda had
infiltrated the ranks of the navy. The piece also asserted that a
17-hour siege on a naval base in Karachi
that was carried out by militants was meant as retaliation for the
military's refusal to release a group of naval officials suspected of
having militant links. Ten security personnel were killed in the attack
that began May 22.

In recent months, Shahzad, 40, had told colleagues that he had been
warned by intelligence agents to stop writing about sensitive matters,
and that he feared for his life. In October, Shahzad told Ali Dayan
Hasan, South Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch,
that he had been summoned to the headquarters of the Inter-Services
Intelligence agency, where he received what he saw as a veiled threat
from a top official.

Shahzad forwarded to Hasan a set of notes from the meeting, adding that
he was doing so "in case something happens to me or my family in
future."

"After that, I spoke to him a few times," Hasan said Tuesday during a
phone interview. "He told me he was under surveillance, that he would
get calls, and that people would stop him and threaten him a couple of
times. But as it is with people who live their lives with these kinds of
threats, you factor it in. He factored it in and carried on with his
business."

Hasan said he had "confirmation from credible sources that he probably was being held by the ISI."

by Kris Tue May 31, 2011 11:03 pm

The US media will ignore this..

Pakistani journalist who exposed military's links to Al Qaeda killed

Pakistani journalist who exposed military's links to Al Qaeda killed

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