How Shakeel Afridi nailed Osama bin Laden

Amir Mir reports how a physician became a CIA mole and helped locate the most wanted man in the world.

Dr Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani canada goose outlet parka physician who helped the Central Intelligence Agency track down and kill Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, has literally become the first individual to have been sentenced in Pakistan for aiding the killing of the world’s most wanted fugitive terrorist.

The sentence was handed down on May 23 under the tribal justice system following a summary trial on treason charges. As Dr Afridi was found guilty of the charges, he was punished with 33 years rigorous imprisonment besides a fine of Rs 320,000.

The doctor has been punished under the Pakistan Penal Code articles 121, 123, 123 1 and 124 while section 11 of the Frontier Crime Regulation, known as a draconian law, canada goose outlet online reviews was also applied in his case.

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With his fate sealed, Dr Afridi was moved to the Peshawar central jail as soon as the verdict was announced.

He has been sentenced despite repeated demands by the Obama administration that the doctor be freed and sent to the United States.

While repeating the American demand for Dr Afridi’s release on March 1, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated at a congressional hearing that there was no basis for Pakistan to hold Afridi.

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Clinton was responding to questions from US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who had introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives to award a rare Congressional Gold Medal to Dr Afridi.

‘If they do not let Afridi go, let me just put canada goose outlet canada everybody on notice and I believe that we’re going to be watching canada goose outlet paypal this closely there is nothing that could canada goose jacket outlet toronto suggest that Pakistan is cooperating with us in the fight against terrorism when they have Afridi the man who helped us get Osama bin Laden in prison and are treating him this way. That is their decision of non cooperation,’ Rohrabacher said.

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The judicial canada goose outlet factory commission had directed the government not to hand over Dr Afridi to the United States and to proceed against him on treason charges. The commission had further declared Afridi a ‘national criminal.’

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Afridi is reported to have assisted the CIA in the final confirmation of Osama’s hideout by speaking on the phone to the supposed owner of the compound, Arshad Khan alias Sheikh Abu Ahmed al Kuwaiti, who was the most trusted courier for the slain Al Qaeda leader.

Using satellite photos and voice recordings, the CIA sought to identify the inhabitants of the fortified compound. The samples of Kuwaiti’s voice, which were taken by Afridi, actually provided the final confirmation to the CIA that the man seen by their drones inside the compound was none other than Osama bin Laden.

canada goose coats Dr Afridi was born in 1962 in a small village of the Malikdinkhel Afridi tribe in Bara subdivision of the Khyber Agency. His father was an agriculturist and a known tribal elder loyal to the British government in undivided India. canada goose coats

In recognition of his services, the British government had awarded him several acres of agricultural land in Multan. Dr Afridi and his family used to travel to the Multan districts in winter where he met Imrana Ghafoor, who hailed from a well educated family in Abbottabad, and later married her.

cheap canada goose uk Dr Afridi graduated from canada goose outlet trillium parka black the Khyber Medical College in Peshawar in 1991 and started his career as a doctor in the Khyber Agency the same year. He shifted his family from the Bara subdivision to Hayatabad in Peshawar after being appointed health officer of the Khyber Agency. cheap canada goose uk

As health officer of the Khyber Agency, Dr Afridi used to treat wounded Taliban leaders including the amir of the Khyber Agency based Lashkar e Islami, Commander Mangal Bagh.

What turned him against the Taliban was his 2007 abduction by Mangal Bagh’s henchmen who thrashed him for charging huge fees from some wounded militants.

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