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Summary US is constantly pressurising Pakistani government that Raymond Davis, who killed two Pakistani citizens, has diplomatic immunity. However in a similar case in Iraqi court, they refused diplomatic immunity of a British contractor and sentenced him 20-year imprisonment for killings.
An Iraqi court sentenced a British security contractor on Monday to life in prison for the killing of two colleagues in 2009. Danny Fitzsimons had faced a possible death sentence after he was arrested in August 2009 over the deaths of Briton Paul McGuigan, a Briton, and Australian Darren Hoare. Officials at the British Embassy in Iraq who attended the trial said they respected the courts verdict and sentence.Authorities have said the three employees of the ArmorGroup security firm had been drinking when an argument broke out. The legions of security contractors who poured into Iraq after the invasion were subjected to Iraqi law at the start of 2009 after the expiration of a UN mandate that covered their presence.
