Leon Panetta concern over Bin Laden 'informer' Shikal Afridi

[dipsydoodle]

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said he is "very concerned" about a Pakistani doctor arrested for providing intelligence for the US raid that killed Osama Bin Laden last year.

Dr Shikal Afridi is accused of running a CIA-run programme in Abbottabad where Bin Laden was killed. A Pakistan panel says he should be tried for treason.

Mr Panetta told the CBS TV network the arrest had been "a real mistake".

Dr Afridi provided "very helpful" information for the raid, he added.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-16772112

[MADem]

1. Treason? WTF?

What, did they grant citizenship and issue Bin Ladin a Pakistani passport?

Is the Pakistani military admitting now that they knowingly, deliberately and with knowledge aforethought harbored the guy? And that they were "pro-terrorist" and not actually our allies at all, even while they took hundreds of millions from us and pretended to be on our side?

I hope they can get used to living on a shoestring. India will be very pleased, no doubt.

In an interview with the CBS programme 60 Minutes to be aired on Sunday, Mr Panetta said: "I'm very concerned about what the Pakistanis did with this individual"...his action "was not in any way treasonous towards Pakistan".

"As a matter of fact Pakistan and the United States have a common cause here against terrorism and for them to take this kind of action against somebody who was helping to go after terrorism, I just think is a real mistake on their part," Mr Panetta said.

...In the aftermath of the operation, reports emerged that the CIA had recruited the doctor to organise a phoney vaccination programme in Abbottabad.

The aim of the programme was allegedly to confirm Bin Laden's presence in the city by obtaining a DNA sample from residents.

[PragmaticLiberal]

2. Totally agree with you.

The Pakistani's profess that Al- Qaeda is thier enemy so how can Mr. Afridi be accused of treason?


Makes you wonder.

[nyy1998]

3. No it actually doesn't because it's not surprising.

Al-Qaeda in Pakistan has been pretty helpful to Pakistan's terrorist networks that is used to wreak havoc in India and Kashmir. Those Pakistani terrorist networks are an extension of the Pakistani intelligence agency(ISI) and essentially an extension of the Pakistani military. The enemy of my enemy is my friend....