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    Police free US man detained at Pakistani airport

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police briefly detained an American, later identified as a U.S. Embassy employee, after bullets were found in his luggage at an airport in the country's northwest on Tuesday.

    The man was released after a couple of hours and handed over to American officials in the city of Peshawar once his identity was clear, said police officer Dost Mohammad Khan.

    Khan said 13 bullets were found in the man's luggage ahead of a flight to Islamabad. It was not clear why the bullets were there.

    A U.S. official said the man was an embassy employee and had diplomatic immunity. He said the U.S. Embassy was in contact with the Pakistani authorities "about the details of the case."

    The U.S. official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized by Washington to be named in the media.

    There is a large U.S. consulate in Peshawar, which is close to the Afghan border.

    The presence of American diplomats inside Pakistan emerged as a sensitive issue after a CIA contractor killed two Pakistani men in the eastern city of Lahore a year ago. U.S. officials insisted the shooter had diplomatic immunity, but Pakistan held him in jail for around two months, causing severe strain in U.S-Pakistan ties.

    The unilateral American-raid that killed Osama bin Laden in an army town in May last year also led to a fresh wave of suspicion against Western diplomats by the Pakistani security establishment, which was apparently stung by the realization that the CIA agents were operating in the country without its knowledge.

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    Associated Press writer Chris Brummitt in Islamabad contributed to this report.

     

    38 comments

    • Just Me, Richard  •  3 mths ago
      Imagine if it had been a Pakistani embassy worker in a New York airport with 13 bullets in his luggage...
      • z 3 mths ago
        pakistani embassy workers don't bring bullet in THE USA. they come with blue print to blow TWIN TOWER, TIMES SQUARE, CHRISTMAS TREE.
      • Just Truth ! 3 mths ago
        @Z you are very funny !
      • Me 3 mths ago
        If it had been a pakistani embassy worker at a US airport, you'd never have even heard about it.
    • Chris  •  New York, New York  •  3 mths ago
      He's a spy O.O
      • Me 3 mths ago
        You must be a detective....LOL
    • Dragon  •  3 mths ago
      Only bullets... no gun? How come??
      • Brian 3 mths ago
        He works for the U.S. Government!!! what do you think.
      • Dragon 3 mths ago
        Just wondering. Why the US government issued only bullets to its embaasy staff without a gun. How can this staff can defend himself in a chaotic pakistan society who terrorists bullets don't recognize diplomatic immunity.
    • Joel A  •  Bangkok, Thailand  •  3 mths ago
      How stupid can a person be for carrying bullets in his luggage. No brains at all.
      • bewildered 3 mths ago
        He is a federal worker after all, so show some leniency. they dropped the entrance test scores for most minorities.
    • Allank  •  3 mths ago
      disarming taliban a few bullets at a time lol
      • Just Me, Richard 3 mths ago
        Another stupid Troll comment -- who said he was with the Taliban, other than you?
      • xr1000 3 mths ago
        Allank, pretty good comment and super idea of our removing a few bullets every time we depart. Less ammunition for the Taliban.... Ha! Ha!
      • Mickey G 3 mths ago
        He was taking bullits in, not out you morons.
    • .  •  Yamatokoriyama-shi, Japan  •  3 mths ago
      If he had diplomatic immunity, why was he arrested, his passport would have indicated his status. Something fishy here.
    • Ikraar  •  3 mths ago
      Good Idea od Issuing Diplomatic Passports to Terrorists. David the killer was also holding this immunity.
    • DENNIS  •  3 mths ago
      He was going to put the bullets in his pee shooter.
    • phdjohnny  •  Pontiac, Michigan  •  3 mths ago
      these people live like animals, their leaders are curupt as coleman young of detroit, and as 2 faced as the gov. of the u.s. why are our hard earned $$$ still going over there?
    • csjpokey  •  Minneapolis, Minnesota  •  3 mths ago
      they should have tossed him in jail we would have. he should know better than that
    • David  •  Irvine, California  •  3 mths ago
      Bullets are the projectiles, cartridges are the things that go bang.

      iit appears some writers can't tell the difference.
    • bewildered  •  3 mths ago
      if it happened here in the US, I doubt that homeland security wannabes would have released him.
    • GeM  •  3 mths ago
      "Diplomatic Immunity" is a steaming pile of crap. No one is above the law and if a law is broken in a country by a diplomat he should be treated the same as a citizen of that country.
    • Michael S  •  3 mths ago
      Just ordinary "diplomatic" activity by Americans. All their "diplomats" are given detailed instructions on spying. This one obviously had instructions for rather more.
    • Enik von sleestak  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      "It was not clear why the bullets were there" come on -
    • Supream1  •  3 mths ago
      Wonder if his 1st name is John he is in pakistan hmmm j
    • Louis  •  3 mths ago
      "Breifly detained" and "held in jail for 2 months" ?? Sitting in a jail cell for 2 months is not "briefly detained". That's longer than a lot of jail SENTENCES in the U.S. Yes, I know that aint in the U.S. But it still not "briefly detained" either.
    • Sergaen Short  •  Brighton, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      lol. I wud've slapped him
    • Bob  •  3 mths ago
      Probably forgot to put it inside the diplomatic bag lol...
    • Stephen  •  3 mths ago
      He screwed up
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