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TIL that in 2011 CIA Operative Raymond Davis was arrested in Pakistan after killing 2 men. A CIA Team coming to his aid was driving on the wrong side of the road and killed another man. Davis was freed after paying $2.4 million in Blood Money while the others avoided arrest and escaped the country

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