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Friday, December 17, 2010

Exposed CIA Station Chief Flees Pakistan (Wall Street Journal)

WASHINGTON — Central Intelligence Agency has fired his top spy Pakistan page after terrorists threaten to kill him, current and former u.s. officials have said, an unusual move the United States and a complication on the frontlines of the fight against al-Qaeda.

The CIA station chief was in transit Thursday after Pakistan continued this month above him accused by name to kill civilians in missile strikes.

Chief of station in Islamabad works as a general secret in America's war against terrorism. He runs the targeting terrorists Predator UAV program, manages advice more urgent and more sensitive to the CIA and works closely with IIS Pakistan, one of the most important relationship in the world of spy.

CIA the unmanned airstrikes killed terrorist leaders but have led to charges in Pakistan strikes kill innocent people. There were over one hundred such attacks this year – more than double the amount in 2009.

Continuing blown coverage of the u.s. spy leading threats against him and forcing us to call it home, officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

"CIA agents serious concerns" Chief of station security led to the decision to bring her back home, said U.S. official. A spokesman for espionage, Jennifer Youngblood, agency refused to comment on.

Pakistan trial was also appointed Director of the CIA Leon Panetta and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

Name of head of the station was published by the local media covering the trial and related events. Demonstrators in the heart of the capital have made plaques bearing name officers and urging them to leave the country.

Shahzad Akbar, advocate bringing the case said he got the name of the journalists of. He said that he named the man because he wanted to pursue a life under the jurisdiction of the Court of Islamabad CIA operative.

A Pakistani intelligence officer said the country intelligence, the ISI, knew the identity of the Chief of station, but had "no index" how his name has been disclosed.

Officer spoke on condition of anonymity because his agency, like many in the world does not allow its officers to be appointed in the media.

The CIA is exceptionally difficult to Pakistan, a counter-terrorism sometimes frustrating and the most important of the United States allies.

There are seven CIA agents close to a year and entrepreneurs were killed when a suicide bomber attacked the CIA in Khost, Afghanistan database. Six other agents of the Agency were wounded in the attack, one of the most lethal of the history of the CIA.

It is rare that a CIA head to see his cover blown station. In 1999, an Israeli newspaper revealed the identity of the station in Tel-Aviv head. In 2001, an Argentine newspaper printed an image of the leader train station in Buenos Aires and details about him. In both cases, the heads of the station were recalled to the United States.

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