Bin Laden death: 'CIA doctor' accused of treason

Dr. Shakeel Afridi’s appointment at Agency Surgeon surprised many in his department. – link

A Pakistani commission investigating the US raid that killed Osama Bin Laden says a doctor accused of helping the CIA should be tried for high treason.

Dr Shakil Afridi is accused of running a CIA-sponsored fake vaccine programme in Abbottabad, where Bin Laden was killed, to try to get DNA samples.

He was arrested shortly after the 2 May US raid that killed the al-Qaeda chief.

The commission has been interviewing intelligence officials and on Wednesday spoke to Bin Laden family members.

Pakistan, which was deeply embarrassed by the raid, has described the covert US special forces operation as a violation of its sovereignty.

A government commission, headed by a former Supreme Court judge, has been charged with discovering how the US military was able to carry out the raid deep within Pakistan without being detected.

It is also investigating how Bin Laden was able to hide in Abbottabad, a garrison town, for several years. …

via BBC News – Bin Laden death: ‘CIA doctor’ accused of treason.

If there is a fake vaccine program there, how do we know there isn’t one here? What are we suppose to believe? Governments just seem to make up stories to embarrass each other.

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