🚀 go-pugleaf

year later [keep American
*   drug enforcement out of Mexico], and the State Department said that the
*   abduction was directly to blame for Mexico's increased concerns about
*   national sovereignty.

Of course, that's no reason not to check our U.S. borders.

We never learn:

#   "CIA Suspect's Prosperous Clan Reacts Angrily to Arrest in Pakistan"
#   By Kenneth J. Cooper, The Washington Post, June 22, 1997
..combined with...
#   "Spiriting Off Fugitive By U.S. Irks Pakistanis"
#   By John F. Burns, The New York Times, June 23, 1997
#   
#   Mir Aimal Kansi, who was wanted for killing two CIA employees and wounding
#   three others in an attack outside their Langley headquarters, was
#   transported from Pakistan within hours of his arrest.
#   
#   Leaders of minor political parties in the capital have taken up the issue,
#   criticizing the national government for ignoring its own extradition laws
#   and permitting a foreign country to haul off a Pakistani citizen without
#   giving him a court hearing as provided by law.
#   
#   "Of course, we are angry," said a video store owner.
#   
#   Pakistani newspapers have described the swift transfer as a loss for the
#   nation's prestige and the rule of law. The Lahore News said, "any person
#   who is sought by a foreign power, no matter what his crime, must have the
#   right to expect normal extradition proceedings before being whisked away
#   from his homeland."
#   
#   In the Kansi case, the government ignored a 1972 extradition law that
#   requires a Pakistan citizen to be given a hearing before a magistrate
#   and the chance to appeal to higher courts.
#
#   A prominent Pakistani, Hamid Gul, a retired army general who is a former
#   director of Pakistan's military intelligence agency,