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February 22, 2011

American Detained in Pakistan is a CIA Operative Linked to Blackwater 
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U.S. officials have admitted an American detained in Pakistan for
allegedly murdering two men was a CIA agent and a former employee of the
private security firm Blackwater. Up until Monday, the Obama
administration had insisted Raymond Davis was a diplomat who had acted
in self-defense.

President Barack Obama: "With respect to Mr. Davis, our diplomat in
Pakistan, we've got a very simple principle here that every country in
the world that is party to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
has upheld in the past and should uphold in the future, and that is, if
our diplomats are in another country, then they are not subject to that
country's local prosecution."



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