Pakistani Doctor Who Helped Find Bin Laden Still In Prison,
https://www.ibtimes.com/pakistani-d...bin-laden-still-prison-health-concern-2792793
Eight years after U.S. Navy SEALS stormed into an al-Qaeda compound in Abbottabad, about 35 miles north of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad and killed the much-feared terrorist Osama bin Laden, a doctor who had helped the CIA to track down the most wanted person in the world by running a fake vaccine program in the city is still in a Pakistani prison, said media reports.
Pakistani officials arrested Shakil Afridi weeks after the U.S. special forces killed bin Laden in a military operation that lasted 40 minutes. Since Afridi was not aware of the real target of the U.S. mission when he signed up for running the vaccination program, he didn’t expect that some of the details of the covert mission would be leaked, exposing his identity.
Afridi was sentenced to 23 years imprisonment for his links with the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Islam.
But Qamar Nadeem, Afridi’s lawyer, the charges as mere excuses to punish the doctor....