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What's the deal with diplomatic immunity?

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Did All 331 Americans Get Recalled?

The recall thing can open up a big can of worms like in 2011, this contractor, defense contractor named Raymond Davis killed a couple of would-be assassins. In Pakistan, and basically he was not a diplomat, but he was under their under diplomatic immunity. He was like a CIA contractor. And so basically they had to break a broker deal between the United States and Pakistan in which Pakistan said, you know what, we have a list of 331 Americans now that we think are shady in some way. So did all those people get recalled? Yes. The deal was that they didn't, they weren't declared persona non-grata, which means that they could come back.

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