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State Department Asks All Non-Essential U.S. Personnel to Leave Pakistan

Aired March 22, 2002 - 14:09   ET

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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: To Pakistan now, news just coming in last hour. The State Department now is asking that all non-essential employees of the U.S. government, diplomats and their families, to leave the country immediately. Again, all this in light of the church attack on Sunday in Islamabad, hit the diplomatic quarters long said to be a secure region of Islamabad. Five killed, including two Americans, but the word we're getting right now from the State Department: All non-essential employees asked to leave that country.

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