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« Reply #280 on: May 23, 2012, 08:12:36 AM »

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/23/pakistani-doctor-who-helped-us-in-bin-laden-raid-sentenced-to-prison/
Pakistani doctor who helped US in bin Laden raid sentenced to prison
May 23, 2012

DEVELOPING -- A Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Usama bin Laden was convicted of high treason Wednesday and sentenced to 33 years in prison, officials said, a verdict that is likely to further strain the country's relationship with Washington.

Shakil Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify bin Laden's presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad where U.S. commandos killed the Al Qaeda chief last May. The operation outraged Pakistani officials because they were not told about it beforehand.

Senior U.S. officials have called for Afridi to be released, saying his work served Pakistani and American interests. His conviction comes at a sensitive time because the U.S. is already frustrated by Pakistan's refusal to reopen NATO supply routes to Afghanistan. The supply routes were closed six months ago in retaliation for American airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
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« Reply #281 on: May 23, 2012, 10:43:23 PM »

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/23/us/seals-movie-access/
Administration officials offered access to bin Laden filmmakers, documents show
By Dugald McConnell and Brian Todd, CNN
May 24, 2012

(CNN) -- Newly released documents have reignited the debate in Washington over whether Obama administration officials granted too much access to filmmakers making a movie about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden -- and whether national security was compromised in the process.

The documents show, for example, that a defense official offered the filmmakers access to a planner from SEAL Team Six, the super-secret special ops division that successfully executed the high-stakes raid in Pakistan last year.

It is not clear if any such access eventually took place. But according to a transcript from the meeting, on July 14 of last year, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers told screenwriter Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow that the defense department would offer up a plum interview.

"They'll make a guy available who was involved from the beginning as a planner; a SEAL Team 6 Operator and Commander," Vickers said, according to the transcript.

The name of that man is blacked out in the transcript that was released, and Vickers tells the filmmakers not to reveal the man's identity.

"He shouldn't be talking out of school," Vickers says, but "he knows what he can and can't say."
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It was not clear whether the SEAL team commander ever met with the filmmakers. A Pentagon spokesman said the Defense Department gave them no access to classified information about the raid.

But Rep. Peter King, R-New York, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, says the offer of access looks like a "potentially dangerous collaboration" and raises "very serious questions" about whether the administration is sufficiently protecting operational secrets.

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« Reply #282 on: May 24, 2012, 10:45:21 PM »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18196669
Was 'Bin Laden doctor' Shakil Afridi an unsuspecting pawn?
By M Ilyas Khan
May 24, 2012

The Pakistani doctor who allegedly used a fake hepatitis C vaccination campaign to obtain DNA samples of Osama Bin Laden's family in Abbottabad a year ago may have become an unsuspecting pawn in the intelligence war between the United States and Pakistan.

Dr Shakil Afridi was arrested by Pakistani intelligence agents on 22 May, 20 days after a secret US raid killed Bin Laden.

On Wednesday, an official of the tribal administration in Khyber region sentenced him to jail for 33 years on charges of treason.

Military officials here believe that the DNA samples he obtained may have led the Americans to Bin Laden's lair.

The question being asked is, if he really thought he had brought harm to the Pakistani security establishment, why didn't he leave the country during the 20 days that the Pakistanis took to discover him?

One possible explanation comes from a former Central Intelligence Agency agent, Reuel Marc Gerecht.

"I am under the impression that actually [Dr Afridi] could have chosen to leave Pakistan; that the [CIA] offered him that option; he chose not to because he thought this action would be welcomed [in Pakistan]," he told the BBC.

But there is no way of confirming Mr Gerecht's views on the Pakistani end as there is no one available to explain what went on in Dr Afridi's mind during those 20 days.
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« Reply #283 on: May 24, 2012, 10:47:39 PM »

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/senate-panel-slashes-pakistan-aid-over-conviction-of-doctor-who-helped-us-get-osama-bin-laden/2012/05/24/gJQAeheNnU_story.html
Senate panel slashes Pakistan aid over conviction of doctor who helped US get Osama bin Laden
May 24, 2012

WASHINGTON — A Senate panel expressed its outrage Thursday over Pakistan’s conviction of a doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden, voting to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million — $1 million for every year of the physician’s 33-year sentence for high treason.

The punitive move came on top of deep reductions the Appropriations Committee already had made to President Barack Obama’s budget request for Pakistan, a reflection of the growing congressional anger over its cooperation in combatting terrorism. The overall foreign aid budget for next year had slashed more than half of the proposed assistance and threatened further reductions if Islamabad failed to open overland supply routes to U.S.-led NATO forces in Afghanistan.
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« Reply #284 on: May 24, 2012, 10:49:23 PM »

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/24/entertainment-us-binladen-film-idUSBRE84N1NY20120524
Bin Laden film got no Special Ops help: U.S. admiral
By Phil Stewart and Mark Hosenball
May 24, 2012

(Reuters) - The U.S. admiral who oversaw the operation to kill Osama bin Laden denied on Thursday that he or his staff helped advise Hollywood film makers shooting a movie about last year's secret raid to kill the al Qaeda leader.
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« Reply #285 on: May 25, 2012, 05:36:51 PM »

http://india.nydailynews.com/newsarticle/813b95ae9885733f16966ef9b865543d/us-senate-body-fumes-over-afridi-sentencing
US Senate body fumes over Afridi sentencing
May 25, 2012

May 25--WASHINGTON (Dawn/ Ann) -- A US Senate panel yesterday voted unanimously to cut aid to Pakistan by US$33 million, or $1 million for every year Dr Shakil Afridi will spend in prison for helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden.

Observers on Capitol Hill say the 30-0 vote aims at sending a powerful signal to Pakistan, "release Dr Afridi or face the consequences".

The proposed $33 million is only a small fraction of the annual US aid to Pakistan but it comes from the Foreign Military Financing fund, which underlines Congress's unhappiness with the Pakistani military.

Lawmakers who participated in the debate made little attempt to hide their indignation.
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« Reply #286 on: May 26, 2012, 05:36:07 PM »

I neither trust nor believe anything the Pakistani government has to say. If they wanted information from Bin Laden's wives, they got it.  They just aren't sharing.   JMHO

http://paktribune.com/news/Osama-wives-gave-little-away-Pakistani-interrogator-250124.html
Osama wives gave little away: Pakistani interrogator
May 26, 2012



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I neither trust nor believe anything the Pakistani government has to say. If they wanted information from Bin Laden's wives, they got it.  They just aren't sharing.   JMHO

http://paktribune.com/news/Osama-wives-gave-little-away-Pakistani-interrogator-250124.html
Osama wives gave little away: Pakistani interrogator
May 26, 2012




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« Reply #288 on: May 28, 2012, 05:17:06 PM »

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/international/2012/May/international_May768.xml&section=international
‘US must respect doctor verdict’
May 25, 2012

The United States should respect a Pakistan court’s decision to imprison a doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden, the Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman said.

“I think as far as the case of Mr Afridi is concerned, it was in accordance with Pakistani laws and by the Pakistani courts, and we need to respect each other’s legal processes,” Moazzam Ali Khan told reporters.

Meanwhile, a Senate panel expressed its outrage over the conviction of Afridi by slashing aid by $33 million — $1 million for every year of the doctor’s 33-year sentence.

The Appropriations Committee approved the amendment 30-0 on Thursday as Republicans and Democrats criticised Pakistan’s conviction of Shakil Afridi for high treason a day earlier.

The United States has called for Afridi to be released.

The vote came on a $52 billion foreign aid budget for next year.

Shakeeel Afridi was found guilty of treason, sentenced to 33 years in prison and fined Rs320,000 ($3,500) under an archaic tribal justice system that has governed Pakistan’s semi-autonomous tribal belt since British rule.

His sentencing was announced two days after Barack Obama appeared to snub President Asif Ali Zardari at a Nato summit in Chicago over Islamabad’s refusal to reopen cheaper Nato supply routes into Afghanistan.

Afridi was not entitled to a lawyer but was given a chance to defend himself and has a right to appeal the verdict, officials said.

Critics said he should not have been tried under tribal law for an alleged crime that took place outside the tribal belt, in the town of Abbottabad where he ran a phony  vaccination programme designed to collect Bin Laden family’s DNA. The US government claimed Pakistan had no basis to hold Afridi, whom an official at Peshawar central jail said was in poor health and being kept away from other prisoners to avoid any danger to his life.
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« Reply #289 on: May 29, 2012, 09:41:17 AM »

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/29/brother-says-pakistani-doc-tortured-appeals-to-us-for-legal-help/
Brother says Pakistani doc tortured, appeals to US for legal help
By Dominic Di-Natale
May 29, 2012

The Pakistani doctor sentenced last week to 33 years in prison for helping track Usama bin Laden suffered torture, isolation and starvation during his interrogation, his brother told Fox News -- as he made an appeal from the family for the U.S. Embassy to help fight his legal case.

Jamil Afridi told Fox News in an interview that the Embassy so far has not reached out to the family of Dr. Shakil Afridi.

The brother said the family wants the U.S. to provide lawyers as well as pay the legal bills -- as questions surround the dubious legal process used to convict Afridi and hand down what amounted to a life sentence. He also said the broader family of roughly 30 people wants asylum in America.

"The blame has been placed on my brother because of America. We are facing a tough time and they should now support us. We should get justice and protection," he told Fox News. "Me, my brother, my family don't have any protection here. When I leave from this place, I don't know what might happen to me. I don't know in which guise someone might come for us. I am afraid of the government agencies, the Taliban and terrorists."

Jamil Afridi said security forces insiders told him his brother was tortured during the interrogation. Afridi was so emaciated when he arrived at prison after last week's conviction that he has put on five pounds just from being fed properly, his brother said.
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Further, he said authorities are "willfully avoiding and stalling" in providing verdict papers, so the family is unable to lodge an appeal. Shakil Afridi has three children -- two sons and a daughter.

The details provided by Jamil Afridi likely will add to the pressure on Washington to do more to help the jailed doctor, considering the role he played in helping the CIA track bin Laden before the U.S. raid on his Abbottabad compound.

The Obama administration has condemned the Pakistani government's decision to imprison Afridi, and claims to be pressing his case with Islamabad. Members of Congress meanwhile have called on the administration to step up their efforts on Afridi's behalf. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., told FoxNews.com last week that he thinks "the administration hasn't done anything to indicate they are serious about the demand for this man's release."

On the Senate side, a committee last week lodged a protest against the prison sentence by voting to cut Pakistan's aid by $33 million.

In Pakistan, government officials last Friday described the sentence as payback for how the U.S. went about getting the Al Qaeda leader and shrugged off criticism by American officials -- telling the U.S. to stop "over-reacting."
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As for Afridi's current status, a senior security official working inside Peshawar's penal system with close knowledge of the Afridi case said the inmate is "confident about his future and an appeal."

"He has become an American hero," the official said. The official said Afridi is being kept in isolation in his tiny cell, though stressed the conditions were not meant to be a form of solitary confinement punishment.

The official also said the jail is facing a potential riot among its 2,000 inmates because militants among them have gotten word that Afridi is being held there. The wardens have also received death threats from militants, the official said.

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« Reply #290 on: May 30, 2012, 09:31:30 AM »

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/30/judgment-claims-pakistani-doctor-sentenced-for-militant-ties-not-cia-assistance/
Judgment claims Pakistani doctor sentenced for militant ties, not CIA assistance
May 30, 2012

The Pakistani doctor sentenced to 33 years in prison for his role in the CIA mission to hunt down Usama bin Laden was formally accused not of aiding U.S. intelligence but assisting a militant Islamic group, according to a judgment provided to Fox News.

The document, which began to circulate to international media overnight, claims Dr. Shakil Afridi was working with the "defunct" militant group Lashkar-e-Islam. It alleged he provided "financial assistance" to the group as well as "medical assistance" to its "militant commanders" while working at a hospital.

The document, though, appears to raise more questions than it answers. U.S. officials consistently have given no indication that Afridi was jailed for anything other than his work with the CIA. Pakistani officials likewise did little to knock that narrative down ever since Afridi was taken into custody last year, and released the document detailing Afridi's alleged militant ties only after U.S. lawmakers threatened retaliation.

But the judgment -- even if it is a tool to mask accusations regarding his CIA work -- could undermine efforts in Washington to press Islamabad for Afridi's release. The judgment was made public just hours after Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced a bill to strip Pakistan of all U.S. aid until Afridi is released to the United States.

The judgment itself makes no direct mention of the CIA or the vaccination program he was supposedly running to obtain blood samples from the bin Laden family. The judgment says only, at the end, that Afridi "has been shown acting with other foreign Intelligence Agencies but all this evidence could not be taken into account for the lack of jurisdiction."

Instead, he was found guilty by the tribal justice system of being "in league" with Lashkar-e-Islam, a militant group active in the tribal areas and committed to implementing fundamentalist Shariah law. The Afridi tribe has actually had long-running tensions with Lashkar-e-Islam.

The judgment claims Afridi was given "ample opportunity" to defend himself.

The family, though, denies this -- yet they are largely in the dark about the case.
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In Washington, Paul said he would introduce a pair of bills next week to address Afridi's plight. One would strip Pakistan, which received $2.1 billion from the U.S. for the current fiscal year, of all foreign aid until Afridi's 33-year sentence is overturned and he's allowed to leave the country; the bill other would grant Afridi U.S. citizenship.

The measures would go beyond the vote by a Senate panel last week to strip Pakistan of $33 million in aid.

"Pakistan must understand that they are choosing the wrong side. They accuse Dr. Afridi of working against Pakistan, but he was simply helping the U.S. capture the head of Al Qaeda. Surely Pakistan is not linking their interests with those of an international terrorist organization," Paul said in a statement.

Administration officials have made a similar case, saying repeatedly that Afridi was working against Al Qaeda, not the Pakistani government.
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« Reply #291 on: June 06, 2012, 08:29:40 AM »

http://india.nydailynews.com/newsarticle/4fcce19b2f089e3267000000/osama-bin-laden-spent-all-his-money-on-attacks-against-west-and-good-food
Osama bin Laden 'spent all his money on attacks against West... and good food'
June 3, 2012
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri described Osama bin Laden as a frugal man in a recent video posted online. Zawahiri claims bin Laden spent all of his money on jihad, but was a generous host to his guests.
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« Reply #292 on: June 09, 2012, 09:18:51 AM »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2156129/Ricky-Sekhon-captured-new-movie-role-Osama-Bin-Laden.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Bin Laden star is captured for new movie role about the most hunted man on the planet
June 7, 2012

The name of the actor portraying Osama bin Laden in a film about how the CIA and U.S. special forces killed the Al Qaeda leader is — or let’s say was — about as Top Secret Classified as real Pentagon data. But this column relished the challenge of hunting down the thespian’s identity.

Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow chose British-based actor Ricky Sekhon to portray bin Laden who, for more than a decade, was the most hunted man on the planet.

The movie, which has the working title Zero Dark Thirty, stars Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Mark Strong and Jason Clarke as intelligence and national security operatives who, last May, tracked down the 9/11 mastermind to his hideout in a walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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« Reply #293 on: June 15, 2012, 01:31:59 PM »

http://www.rferl.org/content/pakistan-bin-laden-doctor-peshawar-afridi/24615478.html
Pakistani Authorities Look For Safer Place To Incarcerate 'Bin Laden Doctor'
June 15, 2012

Just weeks after a doctor who helped uncover Osama bin Laden's hideout was sentenced to a lengthy prison term in Pakistan, local authorities are looking for a more secure facility to house the divisive physician out of concerns for his safety.

Bashir Bilour, a minister for the country's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkwa Province, says Dr. Shakil Afridi has received the best possible protection during his incarceration in Peshawar, the provincial capital.

But the doctor's reputation as a traitor among many Pakistanis, the presence of Taliban inmates at the jail, and a recent large-scale prison break elsewhere in the province have raised concerns, according to the minister.
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« Reply #294 on: June 24, 2012, 10:13:22 AM »

http://gulfnews.com/news/world/pakistan/harassment-of-us-diplomats-rise-1.1040026
Harassment of US diplomats rise
‘Has reached new levels of intensity’ since raid on compound that killed Bin Laden

June 24, 2012

Washington: The Pakistani government’s harassment and obstruction of US diplomats is increasing dramatically, reaching the point where it is “significantly impairing” the work of the American embassy and consulates there, the State Department’s internal watchdog said recently.

The department’s inspector general report said official harassment “has reached new levels of intensity” since the May 2011 US raid on a compound in Pakistan that killed Osama Bin Laden, and it rose further after November Nato airstrikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, prompting Islamabad to suspend most military cooperation and look to fundamentally revise its relationship with the United States.
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« Reply #295 on: June 24, 2012, 10:15:45 AM »


http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/jun/21/as-pakistan-afridi/
Pakistan court delays bin Laden doctor appeal
June 21, 2012

A lawyer for a Pakistani doctor jailed after he helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden says the first hearing in his appeal was delayed.

Samiullah Khan Afridi said the prosecution failed to produce a record of the case filed against his client during the hearing Thursday in the frontier city of Peshawar. He said the hearing was delayed until July 19.
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« Reply #296 on: June 25, 2012, 11:39:11 AM »

http://tribune.com.pk/story/398782/dr-afridis-relocation-plan-taking-final-shape/
Dr Afridi’s relocation plan taking final shape
June 25, 2012

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« Reply #297 on: July 01, 2012, 08:19:30 AM »

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/06/27/running-al-qaeda/
Running al Qaeda
By Zachary Tumin
June 28, 2012

We now have the first public release of goodies from Osama bin Laden’s redoubt at Abbottabad: 17 letters to and from bin Laden and his crew that spell out vision, plans and tactics for the global jihad. The letters span a decade and outline the dimensions of a would-be caliphate – a truly global theater of war conceived, plotted and executed by bin Laden. They also reveal bin Laden to be a highly accomplished orchestrator of a global network struggling with the challenges of collaboration. Three issues consume him, and they happen to be the classic political tasks in the management of collaboration.
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« Reply #298 on: July 14, 2012, 07:16:30 PM »

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/14/156741879/osamas-driver-freed-in-latest-guantanamo-release?ft=3&f=1001&sc=nl&cc=nh-20120714
Osama's Driver Freed In Latest Guantanamo Release
by DINA TEMPLE-RASTON
July 14, 2012

The latest detainee to leave the Guantanamo Bay prison boarded an Air Force jet earlier this week. His destination: Sudan. The man, 52-year-old Ibrahim al-Qosi, had admitted to being Osama bin Laden's bookkeeper, driver and sometime cook, and he was one of the first prisoners to arrive at Guantanamo in 2002.

Now, he is the latest to leave. His departure brings the total detainee population at the U.S. naval base in Cuba down to 168 — from a high of 680 in May 2003.

Qosi, who is from Sudan, is the latest example of the Obama administration's quiet efforts to move prisoners out of Guantanamo.
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« Reply #299 on: July 21, 2012, 04:51:04 AM »

http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/07/21/news/national/government-to-requisition-osama-bin-ladens-plot/
Government to requisition Osama bin Laden’s plot
July 21, 2012

ISLAMABAD - The government has moved to requisition the land on which al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden spent his final years, an official said Friday.
After bin Laden was killed by US troops in May 2011, hundreds of people visited the compound which the authorities destroyed in February, fearing it could become a shrine to al Qaeda acolytes. Authorities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have now published notices in newspapers asking for any objections to the land being declared government property.
It was not immediately clear what the government intends to do with the plot in Abbottabad, where bin Laden was shot dead in a three-storey building by US Navy SEALs. “It has been advertised in newspapers that anyone objecting to the transfer of land should contact the DRO (district revenue officer) within 15 days,” Mohammad Mushtaq, an official in the revenue’s Abbottabad branch, told AFP on Friday.
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