Raymond Davis may have been monitoring LeT activities

[Sidhu...Sidhaarth Roy]

Washington, Mar 14 (PTI) Raymond Davis may have headed a covert CIA team that was tasked to secretly gather intelligence on the Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e- Taiba, which the Americans feel is getting out of the shadows of Pakistan army to launch a campaign of jihad against US and Europe.

By covertly monitoring LeT, Davis might have stepped on the wrong side of the Pakistan army's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) that has nurtured the Lashkar for years as a proxy force to attack targets and enemies in India, the New York Times reported.

The report said that since the ISI has backed the LeT, the Pakistani spy agency doesn't look kindly on the Americans trying to bust it.

The extraordinary swirl of recriminations that followed the Davis shooting episode confirmed for many Pakistan's suspicions that America has deployed a secret army of spies and contractors inside Pakistan.