CIA contractor freed in Pakistan

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Pakistanis are in an uproar over the release today of CIA contractor Raymond Davis. He was freed after paying two million dollars in "blood money" to the families of two men he shot and killed in January. He maintains the men were trying to rob him. The blood money is a provision commonly used under Islamic sharia law.

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