According to the Guardian, Pakistan’s high court justice Shaukat Asiz Siddi has ruled that murder charges be brought against Jonathan Banks, the former CIA station chief in Islamabad. The charges relate to CIA drone strikes against innocent civilians in North Waziristan. It’s an extremely explosive story, which the US media has largely ignored.
Siddiqui also ordered criminal charges brought against John A Rizzo, the former CIA lawyer who signed off on the legality of drone strikes against Pakistan.
Banks’s undercover CIA role first became public in 2009 when tribesman Karin Khan filed a civil lawsuit against him over a drone attack that killed his father and son.
With his cover was blown, Banks was forced to resign his post and leave Pakistan.
The incident sparked major speculation how Khan and his lawyer Shahzad Akbar could possibly have known the identity of the CIA station chief. Many suspected Pakistani intelligence of leaking the name out of frustration with the illegal undeclared US war on their country.
It’s considered highly unlikely the Obama administration will extradite either Banks or Rizzo to stand trial in Pakistan.
Also posted at Veterans Today
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The entire organization should be tried for war crimes, along with whoever is running the show. Re-blogging. Thank you.
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To talesfromtheconspiratum:
Indeed!
War crimes tribunal is called for.
To stuartjeannebramhall:
Thank you for posting this, for I had not seen it. “I am following this trail now…
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Thanks for reblogging.
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Hi Stuart, just want to let you know, that I gave a link to your post about the former CIA station chief in a post I just published:
http://auntyuta.com/2015/04/10/colleen-mccullough/
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Thanks, Aunty. I doubt anyone will read about this in the Australian media.
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Great post about an inspiring campaign to end drone wars. Thanks for linking to my blog.
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Reblogged this on News for the Revolution.
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Tubularsock really hates to bring this up but “It’s considered highly unlikely the Obama administration will extradite either Banks or Rizzo to stand trial in Pakistan”. That is the take-away from this entire mess. It may happen right after all those war criminal dictators and enablers are extradited back to Latin America for their crimes against humanity that America supported.
No, in truth “highly unlikely” means NOT A CHANCE! That’s the way “we” roll!
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Unless the dollar crashes, of course. I see US hegemony steadily declining as economic power shifts to China and Asia. The US can only continue to behave with impunity if they maintain total control over the global economic system.
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Reblogged this on Operation Pakistan.
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Even Pakistani media had conveniently forgotten this news. I don`t think extradition will happen, but ISI, Pakistans intel agency will most likely use this as leverage over CIA. We all know here that CIA and ISI have a bitter/sweet love hate relationship. They are both against each other and also with each other.
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Interesting. Sounds like a really bad marriage.
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Wow. Even though the murderers won’t be extradited it’s good to hear that someone treats these criminals like criminals. Interesting story. I heard nothing about it anywhere else.
Thanks.
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As you can see from Danial’s comment above, they never reported it in Pakistan, either.
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