Reports: Pakistan Journalist Dead after Mysterious Disappearance

Reports: Pakistan Journalist Dead after Mysterious Disappearance

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UPDATE: Pakistan's main news channels are reporting that Shahzad's dead body has been found. One news channel broadcast what appeared to be a black and white image of Shahzad's face. There were visible signs of torture. According to Ali Dayan Hasan of HRW: "Human Rights Watch is clear about the fact that Saleem Shahzad was under threat from the ISI. However, it is essential that the mystery of his gruesome murder be resolved through a transparent investigation and above board legal process. It is time that the Pakistani government understood that this kind of heinous killing is both abhorr

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UPDATE: Pakistan's main news channels are reporting that Shahzad's dead body has been found. One news channel broadcast what appeared to be a black and white image of Shahzad's face. There were visible signs of torture. According to Ali Dayan Hasan of HRW: "Human Rights Watch is clear about the fact that Saleem Shahzad was under threat from the ISI. However, it is essential that the mystery of his gruesome murder be resolved through a transparent investigation and above board legal process. It is time that the Pakistani government understood that this kind of heinous killing is both abhorrent and unacceptable. The perpetrators of this crime, regardless of who they are, must be held to account." Hasan also said: "Given that Shahzad alleged in his lifetime that he had been threatened by the ISI, and given that we believe that the allegation was credible, the onus is on the ISI to prove that it was not holding him in illegal detention, and that its personnel were not responsible for his death."

While the ISI was said to have bristled at previous reports by Shahzad, his disappearance happened two days after he wrote a story for Asia Times Online that said that al-Qaeda had attacked a naval base in the port city of Karachi on May 22 after talks had broken down between the Pakistan navy and the global terrorist organization. In his report, Shahzad claimed that al-Qaeda had carried out the attack in retaliation for the arrest of naval officials suspected of links with the terrorist group. (See pictures of the Taliban's war in Pakistan.)

The following morning, Ali Dayan Hasan, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, received a call from Shahzad's wife. "He had told her that I was one of the people that should be called in case anything happens to him," says Hasan. "He had feared for sometime that something like this would happen to him." Later, Human Rights Watch says it was able to establish that Shahzad was being held by the ISI. "We were informed through reliable interlocutors that he was detained by the ISI," says Hasan. Those interlocutors, he adds, had received direct confirmation from the agency that it was detaining Shahzad. In any case, Hasan says, "in a high-security zone like Islamabad, it is only the ISI that can effect the disappearance of man and his car without a trace."

On Oct. 17, Shahzad had been summoned to the ISI's headquarters to discuss the contents of an article published the day before with two officials from the agency's media wing. That report, published in Asia Times Online, alleged that Pakistan had quietly released Afghan Taliban commander Mullah Baradar, Mullah Omar's deputy, to take part in talks through the Pakistan army. According to the e-mail, labeled "For future reference" and seen by TIME, one of the officials said the following words to Shahzad: "I must give you a favor. We have recently arrested a terrorist and recovered a lot of data, diaries and other material during the interrogation. The terrorist had a list with him. If I find your name in the list, I will certainly let you know." Incidentally, the two ISI officials present at the meeting, Rear Admiral Adnan Nawaz and Commodore Khalid Pervaiz, are both from the navy. Pervaiz has just been appointed the new commander of the Karachi naval base that was attacked.

Hasan of Human Rights Watch says that statement can be read as a threat. "The tone and the manner in which it was issued did constitute a threat," he says. "Shahzad described it to me." The rest of the meeting, as Shahzad described it in the e-mail, was held in "an extremely polite and friendly atmosphere," but no words were minced. In the e-mail, the ISI official was said to have asked for the source of his story. Shahzad writes that he would not name the source, but said he had been told the information by an intelligence official and later confirmed the story from "the most credible Taliban source." According to Shahzad's account, he was asked to "write a denial of the story" but "refused to comply with the [ISI] demand."

So he knew too much and that he had to be silenced by the ISI. The Pakistani ISI wants to make sure he doesn't reveal anymore damning information in light of the embarrassing events in the last few weeks. Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. Attacks on naval base. And so on. Not to mention they wanted his sources.

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All journalists in Pakistan be warned.... You too may be mistaken for CIA and end up like this one.

Seriously, don't eff with the ISI right now, they are so paranoid they'd cut their own mothers throats if they thought it was necessary.

just more proof that journalists are not allowed
to write or post the truth. There have been
over 10,000 journalists either missing or dead
since 9/11. This is no coincidence.

If you are a journalist, then you become a
target if you collect data outside of TPTB
rules.

There are connections to TPTB in all
countries.

as far as what info got this man killed??
I would assume it had to do with the
OBL official story.

my opinion is that this man gathered data
which proved that the man they claimed
was OBL was in actuality an imposter
posing as him to keep the ruse of OBL
alive to the masses of Al Queda.

How could the war on terror continue
if the real OBL had been dead since 2001?

His expose to the world showing this farce
by ISI and the CIA is what got him killed
IMO.

don't you wonder why the CIA was allowed
back into the compound by the ISI ???

edition.cnn.com...

ever heard of a DNA eraser ???

a lil canister device made like a roach bomb which
the CIA can lay on the floor in a room and
activates an aerosol which scrambles and
erases DNA signatures on anything it touches.

a couple of these on each floor of the
compound and it could erase any DNA
evidence of the fake imposter of OBL was
ever there.

Such are the toys used by wet teams of the CIA.