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July 15, 2010, 02:51 PM | #26 |
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The country the bodyguard represents issues them a diplomatic passport and includes them on the list of diplomats scheduled to enter the country. As such, they do not get searched or have their luggage searched. As to the US allowing it, they are under diplomatic immunity, pretty much the same as the US Secret Service that travel abroad with the Presedential security detail. After all, if we forbid foreign diplomats armed protection, they could do the same with us.
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It seems there is a little more to it than just granting diplomatic immunity. I remember this from several years ago.
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July 16, 2010, 12:05 PM | #28 |
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Whatever comes into the country in another country's diplomatic pouch is unknown, as these are not searched by any country, period. This is how intelligence services of country's got weapons into foreign countrys, through the diplomatic pouch. And should they be issued to diplomatic personel, the most we, as a country can do is eject them from this country.
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July 16, 2010, 12:14 PM | #29 |
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That's not a relevant issue. The UN is not a sovereign entity, and as such its employees are not automatically recognized under the diplomatic protections we offer to actual diplomatic personnel from other countries, except insofar as they obtain diplomatic assignments from their own countries.
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I remember reading of DEA agents in South America that were not allowed to carry firearms in some countries. If all it took was granting them diplomatic immunity, they would have been toting guns.
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