It looks like Pakistan is now going rogue. Amid accusations that Pakistani Intelligence agency has been a pawn of the terrorists it appears that the Pakistan government has arrested and persecuted the man who aided America in killing bin laden. He has been charged with treason and tortured. He may face execution by Pakistan military.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/06/MNQJ1LEG3K.DTLExecution possible for Pakistani who aided CIA
Saeed Shah, McClatchy Newspapers
Thursday, October 6, 2011Islamabad --A Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track Osama bin Laden before U.S. special forces killed the terrorist leader should be charged with treason, the official Pakistani inquiry into bin Laden's presence in the country recommended Thursday.
The inquiry's judgment on Shakeel Afridi probably will infuriate U.S. officials, who consider him a hero. If he's convicted, Afridi could be sentenced to death.
Earlier this year, McClatchy Newspapers revealed that Afridi had been secretly recruited by the CIA to help verify that bin Laden was living in a walled compound in the city of Abbottabad, north of the capital, Islamabad. Afridi organized an elaborate sham immunization campaign that sent health workers to the compound in hopes of taking DNA samples.
The effort apparently failed to gather any evidence that proved bin Laden's presence, and the CIA was never certain that the al Qaeda leader was there, even when President Obama decided to mount the raid.
Agents of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate spy agency arrested Afridi, a senior health official for the Pakistani government, three weeks after the May 2 Abbottabad raid. He has been in custody ever since amid allegations that he has been severely tortured.
Washington has been pressing Islamabad to release him so that he and his family can be resettled in the United States, but Thursday's recommendation appears to make that highly unlikely.
The Pakistani inquiry also called for bin Laden's wives and children to be sent back to their home countries. The U.S. special forces raid that killed the al Qaeda chief left behind three wives and several children who lived with him.
Islamabad and Washington are already in a tense diplomatic standoff, centered on U.S. allegations that Pakistan is supporting insurgent groups in Afghanistan, while Pakistan is angry about the unilateral American operation to get bin Laden.
The government set up the five-person commission of inquiry "to ascertain the full facts regarding the presence of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan."
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