(Reuters) – Conspiracy theories swirl around the housing of Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor existence held in Pakistan for actuation departed digit men, but Asiatic personnel reports appear to support his statement that he was the target of armed robbers.
Some Asiatic media and officials, however, disagreement Davis' verify that he acted in self-defense, locution he shot the men departed in algid blood. This has helped fuel anti-U.S. view in Pakistan, where emotion at Washington runs deep.
The United States says solon is a consular employee, enjoys smooth status and should be free immediately.
Pakistan's government, under push from its own people, says the housing has to be definite in court, which has further strained its already-frayed relation with Washington.
Here are whatever of the details in Davis' housing that are disputed:
THE SHOOTING
* The personnel inform says solon was driving his automobile on Qartaba Chowk Jail Road in Lahore when a motorbike unvoluntary by digit men, Faizan Haider, and "Faheem, son of Shamshaad" proven to kibosh Davis.
* The United States says solon believed his life was in danger after Haider allegedly "cocked his piece and pointed toward" Davis.
* Asiatic media and whatever bystanders on Jail Road told Reuters that no piece was brandished and that solon opened fire without encouragement on the digit men, who were chasing him because he had bumped a rickshaw with his car.
SELF-Defense
* solon and the United States say he acted in self-defense after the digit men allegedly proven to rob him at gunpoint.
* Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah says the instrument carried by Haider wasn't unexploded and thusly solon has no correct to verify self-defense.
* The Lahore Police Chief Aslam Tarin in a news word said solon sworn "cold-blooded murder," and called his victims "innocent youths." Tarin also said solon fired at one of the men as they were fleeing, further undermining his verify of self-defense. He also said solon exceeded the correct to self-defense by actuation to kill.
* The personnel inform said "there was not a single bullet unexploded in the chambers of either of the digit slain grouping -- Faizan Haider and Fahim Shamshaad. Rather every bullets were in magazines."
PAKISTANIS' IDENTITY
* The United States, and Davis, says the digit men were robbers.
* Asiatic media and politicians have often referred to them as "innocent youths" and said they had no criminal record.
* Some bystanders interviewed by Reuters said they initially acknowledged the digit men were robbers.
* The personnel inform says personnel recovered digit .309 degree pistols, eight live rounds, five cellphones, and 8,915 Asiatic rupees (about $100) from the slain men.
* Two apparently autarkical witnesses, however, said the same digit men had robbed them hours earlier. Later, after chance most the solon incident on television, the witnesses recovered their taken items from a personnel station.
(Reporting by Mark Hosenball and Rebecca Conway; Editing Chris Allbritton and Miral Fahmy)
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