American Jailed In Pakistan For Defending Himself Against Thieves Acquitted After Agreeing to Pay "Blood Money" To Families for Their Losses

This article calls him a "CIA contractor." I assumed that's what he was but I didn't know that this had been confirmed or that the media was freely printing this. (Wouldn't they be more protective if one of their own were captured?)

Be that as it may, a deal has been reached.

A CIA contractor was acquitted of two murder charges and released by a Pakistani court on Wednesday after a deal to pay "blood money" to the victims' families was reached, Pakistani and U.S. officials said.

The deal, reached just hours after the American contractor had been indicted, ends a long-simmering diplomatic standoff between Pakistan and the United States.

"The court first indicted him but the families later told court that they have accepted the blood money and they have pardoned him," Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told Reuters.

"The court acquitted him in the murder case."

I think that's a good outcome. A better outcome, of course, would be if the Pakistanis were not tribal Al Qaeda loving savages and did not demand blood money when their criminals and terrorists are killed while attempting to jack Americans, but that is obviously not the world we live in.

The world we live in is one where we, as one old foreign policy guy put it, put a boot in their ass and money in their pockets.

Tom, who sends this, thinks it sets a bad precedent and calls it submission to Sharia, but we've always had this problem with the savages and we've tended to handle it this way.

posted by Ace at 02:10 PM

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