Pakistani Doctor Who Turned In bin-Laden Jailed For Treason

Pakistani doctor who helped CIA find Osama bin Laden jailed for treason
By Dylan Stableford Senior Media Reporter

Osama bin Laden (AP/File)
The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been sentenced to 33 years in jail for treason.
Shakil Afridi, 48, had been accused of running a fake hepatitis B vaccination program, collecting DNA samples reportedly used by U.S. intelligence officers to track bin Laden to Abbottabad, where Navy SEALs killed him in a raid on his compound last year.
A tribal court found Afridi guilty of "acting against the state," The New York Times reported. He was sentenced to 33 years in prison and a fine of 320,000 Pakistani rupees, or $3,477, a government official said.
Afridi, who was arrested shortly after bin Laden's killing, was sentenced under tribal laws and will serve his jail term in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan. Tribal laws do not carry the death penalty for treason.
According to Reuters, the sentence is "almost certain to further strain ties" between Washington and Pakistan. Following the raid, U.S. officials raised suspicions that Pakistani intelligence may have sheltered bin Laden in Abbottabad. The raid "humiliated" Pakistan, which saw it as a violation of its sovereignty.
"Afridi's prison term could complicate efforts to break a deadlock in talks over the re-opening of land routes through Pakistan to U.S.-led NATO forces in Afghanistan, which are crucial for supplies," Reuters said.
In January, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta "confirmed that the United States had been working with Dr. Afridi while trying to confirm the location of Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad," the Times said.
"For [Pakistan] 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," Panetta said, according to the paper.
According to the BBC, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had also called for Afridi's release "on the grounds that his work served Pakistani and American interests."
MTW- This is what they get for helping us? Not cool, as he used dna samples to help track bin-Laden to where we KILLED him. They must be pro-Al-Queerda. I am tired of giving Pakistan money. Are you not as well? They obviously hate us, but still take our money. However, he did help us. We need to show Pakistan the back of our hand- or CUT THE FUNDS OFF. Nobama-Nobiden in 2012!
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
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