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Doctor who helped the U.S. find OBL granted new trial
Posted: Aug 29, 2013
IMHO, he NEVER should have been on trial to begin with and the U.S. should have gotten him out of Pakistan immediately instead of letting him rot in prison.
Doctor who helped find Osama bin Laden gets a new trial
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN— A senior judicial official on Thursday overturned the prison sentence of a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden and ordered his re-trial, citing procedural problems with the initial trial.
The official, Sahibzada Mohammad Anis, issued the ruling because the person who sentenced Dr. Shakil Afridi to 33 years in prison was not authorized to hear the case, said Feroz Shah, a government administrator.
Afridi was convicted in May 2012 of “conspiring against the state” by giving money and providing medical treatment to Islamic militants in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal area, not for helping the CIA track down bin Laden. The doctor’s family and the militants denied the allegations.
The case has caused friction between Pakistan and the United States, complicating a relationship that Washington views as vital for fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda, as well as negotiating an end to the war in neighboring Afghanistan.
In the U.S. and other Western nations, Afridi was viewed as a hero who had helped eliminate the world’s most wanted man. The doctor ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA in an attempt to verify the Al Qaeda leader’s presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad. U.S. commandos later killed bin Laden there in May 2011 in a unilateral raid.
Pakistani officials were outraged by the bin Laden operation, which led to international suspicion that they had been harbouring Al Qaeda’s founder. In their eyes, Afridi was a traitor who had collaborated with a foreign spy agency in an illegal operation on Pakistani soil.
Officials in Washington have called for Afridi to be released.
it's against the law to abscond with foreign nationals - nm
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?Abscond with foreign nationals? Please explain - Truthhurts
[ In Reply To ..]It was my understanding that the good doctor wanted he and his family help to get OUT of Pakistan if he helped the U.S.
He had been visiting in the U.S. for a while with relatives and pleaded for asylum because there were threats against him but he was denied.
He went back to Pakistan and worked with the CIA to find OBL and after the raid, he was arrested when Leon Panetta announced who he was (loose lips sink ships) and was supposed to spend 33 years in prison for the "dirty deed."
It seems like only Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., is Dr. Afridi’s most vocal supporter in Congress. The others seem to have forgotten about him.
They can't. It's made up. It's the conservative challenge (sm) - Rose
[ In Reply To ..]Debunk all the idiocy put out there by the MSM and left wing radicals. Next, they'll be telling us that the Syrians didn't get their chemical weapons when they were moved from Iraq - as they don't see this on any liberal "news" organizations.
I understand. Reading for INFORMATION instead - of digging for rocks does that for you. nm
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I was incorrect in saying foreign "nationals" - sm
[ In Reply To ..]I should have just said we can't remove foreigners from their countries.
I don't know about the rest of your take on the issue, and I can't verify any of it. If you were to provide a link, I might be able to comment further.
A link - Truthhurts
[ In Reply To ..]I couldn't find the original link but I searched for Dr. Shakil Afridi denied U.S. Asylum and came up with a bunch of sites.
Here's one:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/pakistani-doctor-shakil-afridi-refused-offer-of-us-asylum/story-e6frg6so-1226375573544
link says he "REFUSED a US offer of asylum for himself and his family" - thanks
[ In Reply To ..]A Pakistani doctor jailed for 33 years for helping the CIA track down Osama bin Laden through a bogus polio vaccination campaign apparently refused a US offer of asylum for himself and his family.
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