Pakistan cuts term for doctor who helped CIA find Osama bin Laden
Source: Los Angeles Times
PESHAWAR, Pakistan A Pakistani tribal court on Saturday reduced the prison sentence for the doctor identified as helping the CIA track down Osama bin Laden from 33 years to 23 years.
Shakil Afridi, convicted in 2012 of links to a banned militant group, was cleared of one of the charges against him: that he sought to wage war against Pakistan.
Afridi was arrested by Pakistani authorities shortly after U.S. commandos killed the former Al Qaeda chief in a town outside Islamabad in May 2011. He has been held in Peshawar since then but has not been charged for his alleged role in the bin Laden raid.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-pakistan-reduces-jail-term-for-doctor-who-helped-cia-track-osama-bin-laden-20140315,0,5588437.story
More sources:
Pakistan Dawn News, BBC, Reuters, Al Jazeera
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Pakistan does something to refuel the humor.
debunkthis
(99 posts)Last edited Sat Mar 15, 2014, 05:15 PM - Edit history (1)
is how someone suffering from kidney failure could survive hiding in a cave in Afghanistan, and then also survive the arduous journey to Pakistan and still survive for years. It just doesn't add up...
7962
(11,841 posts)Did he ever REALLY have kidney failure?
debunkthis
(99 posts)Will so much disinformation being disseminated by all sides in this matter ( our own government included ) it is hard to know what is true.
All I know is that what we've been spoon fed by the corporate media regarding Osama Bin Laden ( and indeed the events of 9/11 ) does not stand up to scrutiny. I'm not saying that I know the truth, but I know enough about physics and biology to know what cannot possibly be true.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Osama's BFF. Pakistani ISI spread a lot of misinformation to protect Osama.