(26 Feb 2011) HEADLINE: Raw Video: Anti-American protest in Pakistan
CAPTION: Hundreds of people staged a noisy anti-American protest outside the U.S. Consulate in Lahore, Pakistan on Saturday. They burned a U.S. flag and set fire to an effigy of an American CIA contractor accused of murdering two Pakistanis in that city last month. (Feb. 26)
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SHOTLIST
1. Wide of supporters of Jamaat-u-Dawa charity marching along street in protest, chanting anti-American slogans, holding banners and flags
2. Mid of chanting protesters, security
3. Mid of protesters holding banner reading (English): "American Terrorist Raymond Davis must be hanged publically. Jamaat-u-Dawa Lahore"
4. Close-up of protesters chanting, UPSOUND (Urdu): "Hang Raymond!"
5. Mid of chanting protesters, man holding sign reading (English): "Vienna Convention does not allow Drone Killings. Jamaat-u-Dawa Lahore"
6. Low angle of children holding banner reading (English): "No immunity, No - Justice demands blood for blood"
7. Wide top shot of protest
8. Speaker address protest through microphone
9. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Qari Yaqoob, Jamaat-u-Dawa local leader:
"It is the demand of the whole Pakistani nation that Raymond Davis should be sentenced to death. He doesn't deserve immunity, because he is a murderer and has confessed. After that there is no immunity for him, both his hands are stained with the blood of Pakistanis."
10. Effigy of Davis being beaten
11. Effigy being set alight, UPSOUND: Crowd chanting (Urdu) "Down with the American dog!"
12. Various close-ups of burning effigy on ground
13. Protesters beating burning effigy with their shoes
14. Protesters setting alight a US flag
15. Wide of protesters with flags
STORYLINE
Hundreds of people staged a noisy anti-American protest outside the US Consulate in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Saturday.
Chanting "Any friend of America is a traitor," they burned a US flag and set fire to an effigy of an American CIA contractor accused of murdering two Pakistanis in Lahore on January 27.
The US Embassy says Raymond Davis shot the men in self defence as they tried to rob him in late January in Lahore. He has been in prison since the incident.
Saturday's demonstration was organised by the Jamaat-u-Dawa, a charity alleged to be a front for the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Lashkar-e-Taiba is blamed in the deadly 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India, and Pakistan's government insists it has cracked down on it and affiliated groups.
Raymond Davis appeared handcuffed in a Pakistani court on Friday, where he refused to sign a charge sheet after claiming diplomatic immunity, officials said.
Washington insists Davis is immune from prosecution because he is listed as a US Embassy staff member.
Pakistani officials, wary of a backlash in a population rife with anti-American sentiment, have declined to confirm whether Davis has diplomatic immunity, saying the matter is up to the courts.
Davis is a 36-year-old native of the US state of Virginia.
US officials speaking on condition of anonymity have acknowledged that he did security work as a contractor for the CIA, but was apparently in Pakistan under a diplomatic cover.
American officials, nonetheless, say his exact job has no bearing on whether he qualifies for diplomatic immunity based on their readings of international agreements.
They say they notified the Pakistani government of his official position as an "administrative and technical staff" member of the embassy more than a year ago.
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