Pakistani Doctor Who Helped The CIA Get Bin Laden Was Denied Asylum And Abandoned By The U.S. Government

Dr. Shakil Afridi

Pakistani Doctor Who Helped Get Bin Laden Was Denied Asylum In U.S., Report Reveals -- FOX News

The jailed doctor who helped the U.S. track down Usama bin Laden was convicted by a tribal court on bogus charges, according to a classified Pakistani government report.

Portions of the voluminous 357-page Abbottobad Commission Report, which has yet to be made public and were obtained exclusively by Fox News, acknowledge Dr. Shakil Afridi’s conviction last year by a government-sponsored Jirga has undermined Pakistan’s credibility. The report calls for Afridi to be given a new trial.

The report also claims Afridi joined the CIA search for Bin Laden five years ago, while he was staying in the U.S. with a cousin. According to the report, Afridi applied for asylum after a terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Islam, stepped up its operations in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt.

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My Comment: I am lost for words on this case. This is a man who deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom. But after all the promises from the White House and other senior government officials that they will help the man who helped the CIA to find Bin laden .... the truth is now known .... he was abandoned by those in Washington who were always saying publicly that they will help him. And today .... this hero .... is rotting in a Pakistani prison.

Hollywood Couple Launches Ad Campaign To Free The Man Who Helped In Snaring Osama Bin Laden

Hollywood Couple Launches Ad Campaign To Free The Pakistani Surgeon Who Is Rotting Away In Prison After Helping The U.S. Snare Osama bin Laden -- Daily Mail

A Hollywood couple has launched a campaign targeting members of the military to help free the Pakistani surgeon who aided the CIA in their search for Osama bin Laden.

Robert H. Lorsch and his actress wife, Kira Reed Lorsch, have placed ads for their 'Free Afridi' campaign in the Military Times.

Shakil Afridi is a doctor who was arrested shortly after the U.S. raid on bin Laden's compound two years ago in Abbottabad and convicted in May 2012 of colluding with terrorists.

U.S. officials say his charges are a sham and that he is actually being punished for cooperating with the CIA. He is now serving a 33-year-sentence in a Pakistani prison.

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My Comment: I suspect that this Hollywood couple is doing more work to free Shakil Afridi than what Washington is doing.

The Tragedy Of The Hero Who Helped The CIA Nail Bin Laden Continues

Shakil Afridi talks with people outside a building at an unknown location in Pakistan. Photo by Reuters

Hero Doctor Who Helped Nail Bin Laden Tortured In Pakistani Prison, Says Family -- FOX News

Dr. Shakeel Afridi, the jailed CIA informant who helped hunt down Usama Bin Laden, has recently been tortured in prison, the doctor’s family members told Fox News.

“I was told by a prison source that Shakeel and two guards were subjected to torture by jail administration sometime in November,” Jamil Afridi, the brother of the jailed doctor, told Fox News in a recent interview. Jamil Afridi said he had been told about the torture on Nov. 21, when he tried to visit his brother in jail but was turned away, and in a follow-up court hearing on Nov. 22.

“His privileges have been revoked and he’s been shifted to another cell,” Jamil said. “They are strict with him, and treating him inhumanely.”

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Update: Dr. Afridi tortured in jail, family says -- UPI

My Comment: I do not know who to be more outraged at .... is it Pakistan? The silence from the White House? No media coverage(with the exception of FOX and UPI)? Congress?

Everyday that this hero stays in jail makes a mockery of the U.S. commitment to help those who help us .... because in this case (of all cases) .... the message is clear .... you can help us but you are on your own.