Dr. Shakil Afridi
New York Daily News: Doctor who helped find Osama bin Laden still in jail
The physician who worked with the CIA to track down Osama bin Laden has yet to receive a good prognosis.
Shakil Afridi has been in prison since 2011 on charges of treason, but not in relation to his work with the U.S. government. Rather, officials claim he had worked with militants – a suggestion even the Taliban find hard to believe.
During the hunt for the founder of al-Qaeda, the Pakistani doctor worked with the CIA to operate a fake hepatitis vaccine program in Abbottabad that was actually searching for DNA samples belonging to members of bin Laden's family, thus confirming their location in the city.
Read more ....
Update #1: Doctor who aided hunt for bin Laden languishes, forgotten (AP)
Update #2: He Helped Find bin Laden, Now Languishes in Jail (Newser)
WNU Editor: Kudos to the AP for giving this story the attention it deserves. I have mentioned it before .... but as long as Pakistan keeps this hero in jail, I know in my heart that Pakistani will never be serious in combating the extremists that are in its country. But the day that Shakil Afridi is released .... that will be the day that I know that Pakistan has turned around and is now serious in defeating these groups.
Posts
