Posted on 05/01/2015 8:25:48 PM PDT by markomalley
Four years after U.S. forces shot dead Osama bin Laden at a house half a mile from Pakistan’s top military academy, the Pakistani doctor who allegedly ran a fake vaccination program for the CIA to find the al Qaida chief – but didn’t find him – is serving a long prison term on questionable charges of aiding an insurgent Pakistani militant group, his attorney said.
Suspected CIA operative Shakil Afridi has paid a heavy price for the huge embarrassment caused to Pakistan’s powerful military and its security services by the discovery of bin Laden: In addition to his 23-year term, his family lives in hiding and the lead attorney of his defense team was shot dead in March in the northern city of Peshawar.
His situation is in stark contrast to that of the two Pakistani militant groups that helped resettle bin Laden in Pakistan in 2002. Harakat-ul-Mujahideen and Jaish-i-Mohammed provided bin Laden with dedicated security teams as he moved around the north of the country before settling in the town of Abbottabad in 2005, retired militants familiar with the operation told McClatchy.
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Disgraceful. Pakistan shouldn’t get a single dime until he is released.
This should have never happened. Our source should have been given protection. The fact this information was released before he had this protection is disgraceful to the reputation of the United States and one of a series of gigantic blunders by Obama.
0bama had our Navy Seals take out Bin Laden to enhance his re-election opportunity. It was done for show and nothing else. The poor doc rotting away in a Pakistani prison was expendable.
Arrest at least two of theirs.
Not sure I agree.
Afridi was outed by Panetta at soetoro’s orders.
Agree
this is disgraceful for the united states. this guy his family should all be here in the states for his safety and I remember that there was a bounty on Osama bin laden. he should be collecting the bounty.
Agree!!
My first thought exactly.
4 years after his reported death, the body has still never been seen.
It’s the wrong message to send to our allies.
Obama had the Navy seals pretend to take Osama out. I guess it worked, most FReepers seem to believe it.
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