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By NAHAL TOOSI, Associated Press Sat Dec 18, 8:05 am ET

ISLAMABAD Pakistan's top spy agency denied Saturday that it

helped unmask the CIA's station chief in Islamabad, dismissingspeculation it was retaliating for a U.S. lawsuit linking the Pakistaniintelligence chief to the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India.

An official with the Pakistani spy service warned that such allegationsrisk raising tensions between the already uneasy allies.

The CIA ordered its station chief out of Pakistan because his life wasthreatened after a Pakistani legal complaint revealed his name. Hisrecall comes at a delicate time, as the White House presses Islamabadto rid its lawless tribal regions of safe havens for militants fighting in

Afghanistan, where the U.S. is grappling with an exit strategy.

The station chief's name was revealed by a Pakistani man threateningto sue the CIA over the deaths of his son and brother in a 2009 U.S.missile strike. The attorney involved with the legal complaint said helearned the name from Pakistani journalists. Pakistan's spy agencieshave kept ties to a number of Pakistani journalists as a way toinfluence coverage.

Questions have arisen as to whether a civil lawsuit filed last month inBrooklyn in connection with the 2008 Mumbai attacks may have raised

tensions with Pakistan and spurred it to retaliate. The lawsuit lists Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the head ofPakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, as a defendant and accuses the ISI of nurturing terror ists involved in the

Mumbai attacks, which left 166 people dead.

The Pakistani intelligence official dismissed any claims of ISI involvement in exposing the CIA official as "aslur." He declined to offer any comment on the Brooklyn lawsuit and said it was entirely possible Pakistani

journalists simply figured out the station chief's identity on their own.

Such "unfounded stories can create differences between the two organizations," the official warned.

He also said the CIA has not directly accused the ISI of any wrongdoing in the matter. Like other intelligenceofficials, he requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of his work and because he is not authorizedto speak to media on the record.

The Associated Press learned about the station chief's removal on Thursday but held the story until he wasout of the region.

The CIA's work is unusually difficult in Pakistan, an important but at times capricious counterterrorism ally.

The station chief in Islamabad operates as a virtual military commander in the U.S. war against al-Qaida andother militant groups hidden along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The chief runs the Predator droneprogram targeting terrorists and handles some of the CIA's most urgent and sensitive tips.

The station chief also collaborates closely with Pakistani intelligence. The alliance has led to strikes on keymilitant leaders but has also been marred by spats between the two agencies. During the first term ofPresident George W. Bush's administration, Pakistan almost expelled a previous CIA station chief in a dispute

about intelligence sharing.

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"USA is the real terrorist" says mommie of deadbeat...just like here..."my poor little boy". Stupidpeople shouldn't have children; it is a burden on the rest of society. We have to put up with your little

jerk instead of them contributing to the whole...hope you are proud... Kenmeister...you are a meisterof something alright.

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0 0Bill 5 minutes ago Report Abuse

Oh, those nice Pakistan folks, never would they rat out some American intelligence officer. Why,heck, the American government gives them so many tax payer dollars to be our friends.

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0 0Mesophotoilis 5 minutes ago Report Abuse

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2 4Allen 7 minutes ago Report Abuse

The muslim in Chief B. HUSSEIN Obama leaked his name.

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3 5Edward 10 minutes ago Report Abuse

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1 3Iola Mcnealy 11 minutes ago Report Abuse

The problem is , our Goverment does not know how to deal with Pakistan. This is a corruptgovernent, and they live by the rule of the streets.. Our Goverment has College smarts, but notstreet smarts, so they don't know how to deal with thugs.... Tonya, Just a couple years ago I lovedall the impressive deals you could get on eBay but the deals are a lot more expensive now. So Istarted to look online for a site where I could get my family good budget prices on high demanditems and came across this auction site. I was skeptical at first but this place is really like a neweBay. I am addicted to the deals lol. Check it out, go to GoGetBids.com

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4 5JOE SCOTT 13 minutes ago Report Abuse

This is all nothing but nonsence! The only way to get rid of this problem to cut off the head of thesnake ! The snake being those turbin heads over there! There will never be any peace in this worldas long as Muslims continue to keep killin non believers of there faith! They have been fightingeveryone in this world since they became who they are so my bid and i don`t even hate to say thisanymore but i use to, but drop a few nukes on that whole part of the world and end this this constantbullshyt from these megalomaniacs from that part of the world!!! you kill one and 2 more pop up! sopull the root out of ground and burn it once and for all!

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4 2JACK 13 minutes ago Report Abuse

Lets not give away all of our rights to the government. Think about it for a second before becomingpatrotic. Our ignorance is going to take away all of our rights away from us. 911 took away most ofour rights. Governement controls tv so they only put on what they want you u hear, and now withthis wikileaks, another government set-up to control one thing they have no rights on, and that is the

internt. We as people need to stand up for our rights before it is too late.

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2 5Natalie Stephen 14 minutes ago Report Abuse

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