Interesting story emergin this morning from the US.
A CIA contractor whose murder acquittal sparked a furore in Pakistan has been arrested near his home in the US after a fight over a parking space.
Raymond Davis allegedly hit the man he was rowing with outside a bagel shop in the Colorado town of Highlands Ranch.
He was released from a Pakistani prison in March after the families of two men he had admitted shooting dead in Lahore accepted “blood money”.
The case fuelled the anti-US feeling running high among some in Pakistan.
It also inflamed already tense relations between the US and Pakistan.
Police in Highlands Ranch responded to an altercation between two men outside an Einstein Bagel shop on Saturday morning, Lt Glenn Peitzmeier of the local sheriff’s office said.
Mr Davis was taken into custody on misdemeanour charges of third-degree assault and disorderly conduct, and released after posting a $1,750 (£1,126) bond.
Lt Peitzmeier said the victim had refused medical treatment at the scene.
Local media reported witnesses as saying that a verbal row between the two men over a parking spot had turned physical.
It was FORCED by pakistani govt…the family of the victims had initially demanded that he be punished…and that they didn’t want money…later on they were pressurised by pakistani govt to forgive him on blood money…
