Pakistan May Be Holding ‘Traitor’ Who Helped Take Down Bin Laden, Congressman Asks to Grant ‘Hero’ U.S. Citizenship
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Concerns are growing over the safety of a Pakistani doctor who might have played an unwitting yet heroic role in the U.S. take-down of Osama bin Laden.
According to Fox News, Dr. Shikal Afridi may be in the custody of Pakistan’s clandestine Inter-Services Intelligence agency after it discovered the doctor’s participation in a fake Hepatitis B vaccination program that attempted to gain DNA samples from those within bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound — including several followers and their families.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta this week questioned the charges against the doctor.
“I’m very concerned about what the Pakistanis did with this individual,” he told CBS News. “This was an individual who, in fact, helped provide intelligence on — that was very helpful with regards to this operation. And he was not in any way treasonous towards Pakistan. He was not in any way doing anything that would have undermined Pakistan.”
Panetta reminded thst the U.S. and Pakistan “have a common cause here against terrorism.”
“And for them to take this kind of action against somebody who was helping to go after terrorism, I just think it’s a real mistake on their part,” said Panetta.
Fox reports that Panetta‘s comments are the first to publicly acknowledge Afridi’s involvement in the operation.
Fox provides some of the background:
Afridi was arrested shortly after the raid and is thought to still be in custody despite not formally being charged with a crime. His detention has widened the rift between the U.S. and Pakistan, with Washington until now quietly pressing for his release so Afridi and his family can resettle in the U.S., according to The Guardian newspaper, which first reported on the doctor’s role in the operation last July.
Reports suggest that Afridi rang the bell of the bin Laden compound during the vaccination drive, and the nurse who was with him was able to get inside but was ultimately unsuccessful in getting any DNA samples.
Reports have also suggested that Afridi may not have even been aware that he was working for the CIA and instead may have been recruited by other Pakistanis to carry out the fake house-to-house vaccination program.
Now, lawmakers are coming to Afridi’s aid. Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher introduced legislation to grant U.S. citizenship to Afridi as Pakistan’s Inquiry Commission on the Abbottabad Operation has recommended the doctor be tried for treason. If convicted, Afridi could be executed.
An official press release from Rohrabacher’s office stated:
“It is shameful and unforgivable that our supposed allies in Pakistan have charged Dr. Afridi, who contributed to the operation that killed Bin Laden, with treason,” said Rohrabacher. “The United States needs to stand with those who help us. We have not forgotten about Dr. Afridi.”
“By granting him American citizenship we will send a direct and powerful message to those in the Pakistani government and military who protected the mastermind of 9/11 for all those years and who are now seeking retribution on those who helped to bring Bin Laden to justice,” Rohrabacher continued. “We must assume the obvious and conclude that Pakistan’s leaders have plotted for years to kill Americas.”
Panetta also told CBS News that there was no actual evidence of Pakistani involvement in bin Laden’s presence in Pakistan, but suspicions must have been raised.
“I personally have always felt that somebody must have had some sense of what was happening at this compound,” Panetta said of Pakistan’s alleged involvement in harboring bin Laden.
“Don’t forget, this compound had 18-foot walls around it — 12-foot walls in some areas, 18-foot walls elsewhere, a seven-foot wall on the third balcony of the house. It was the largest compound in the area,” he said. “So you would have thought that somebody would have asked the question, ‘What the hell’s going on there?’
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Stacy In KY
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 7:16amThe Obama Administration Could be Fumbling the Ball in the Middle East: http://oleglorynews.com/2012/02/02/the-obama-administration-could-be-fumbling-the-ball-in-the-middle-east/
Report Post »qzak491
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:42pmSTACY I’m from KY nice to see a Kyian on here, where are you.
Report Post »Anne G
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 6:06amOnly Obama would neglect to figure out a way to protect this guy. Ooops.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:44amThat’s not true. Dozens of Iraqis who aided the United States were hung out to dry by the Bush Administration after we had no more use for them. We wouldn’t have been fighting a war against Bin Laden in Afghanistan in the forts place if we hadn’t left our Afghan allies in the lurch as soon as they beat the Russians. That’s just what we do. People in other countries are used as a means to an objective, and whether we help them or don’t help them afterwards is something that’s decided on a cost/benefit analysis basis, not something we have to do because we have a sacred debt of honor.
Report Post »Pro-Palin
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 3:21amPakistan Free him …
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 5:52ambin laden … I don‘t believe we killed him because I don’t believe a dam thing that comes out of OBAMMY’S mouth. Liar!
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:30am“mastermind of 9/11″……lol
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 2:28amLet me guess… you think the mastermind of 9/11 was George W. Bush?
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 2:56amGeorgie?…lol…naa.
Report Post »Fitzzz
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:38pmWho was the one who outed Dr Afridi ?
Report Post »Sounds like something Joe Biden would do
Again no DNA to prove bin Laden was actually there, or was ever killed
Sgtjim
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:32pmIf I lived in any of these countries I would never aid this bunch in Washington. I would not tell them about a surprise birthday party. They cannot keep their mouth shut.
Report Post »Panetta seems to be a blather mouth. Telling the press about this doctor, telling the Talabon we are pulling out early and telling Iran Israel is going to attack in the spring and then Finestine telling the world about a top secret meeting with Mossad.
Come on November.
Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:12amEXACTLY– This is the intended message behind the outing. From the get go! “Do not help the United States” and obama is purposeful on this. A child can see this!
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on February 5, 2012 at 9:31am“…“We must assume the obvious and conclude that Pakistan’s leaders have plotted for years to kill Americas.”…”
Report Post »And we must assume by this statement that Rohrbacher is instigating a war with Pahkeestahn, under orders from Der Fuhrer, of course.
garbagecanlogic
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:42pmPakistan is the “traitor”.
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
FreedomPurveyor
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:12pmAmen brother
Report Post »jzs
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:51pmThis is yet another example of Obama’s sympathy toward the those of the Islamic religion. Obviously Obama was trying to protect Bin Laden and his crowd by protecting them against disease. Given his Islamic roots and sympathies, it’s a simple conclusion that was his goal.
I’m not saying I can prove this but he may have been getting DNA samples to create, through genetic exchange and artificial insemination, a new Islamic brood of children of the Bin Laden line before killing him. I don‘t know that’s true for a fact, but it‘s a scientific possibility and plausible given Obama’s love of terrorists.
The liberals claim they were trying to get inside information on his compound, and to determine if Bin Laden was actually there (we already had his DNA). They may have also tried to get the DNA of others who were there, for future reference and to make the connections to other loyal family members. At least that’s what the liberals say.
But clearly President Obama’s heart and soul is with the radical Islamists, and he only keeps killing them, day after day and week after week to conceal his real intentions. The higher the body count of terrorists, the more you can be sure our President is on the side of terrorists.
Report Post »Jhn'1
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:31pm“…he was not in any way treasonous towards Pakistan. He was not in any way doing anything that would have undermined Pakistan.”
Report Post »unless Pakistan wants to postulate that Bin Ladin was deliberately being protected by the Pakistani government. If so, then this is a different situation. From both directions and we should cut off funding, close our embassy there, and change the status of Pakistan to a terror supporter state for everything to especially include immigration and visas.
goronpaul
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:47pmIf Osama was in America and you found out about it and where he was and did not tell the Government but instead told (say) the Canadian government would that be treason?
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:15pm“If Osama was in America and you found out about it and where he was and did not tell the Government but instead told (say) the Canadian government would that be treason?”
Not if Osama was 100 yards from West Point in a massive compound, making it obvious that America was deliberately harboring him…
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:25pmWe all knew Pakistan was hiding Bin Laden, and now this just proves it.
Report Post »omgfolks
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:10pmCan we say collateral damage? I do not wish him harm, I truly do not, but neither do I agree we should make him and his family American Citizens if he chose to act on behalf of his country and not ours. I am not being cruel and I am not insensitive, but we are done with Bid Laden and we should move on. There are bigger fish to fry. Like all those spend thrift politicians in Washington, let stop that problem, or maybe legalize pot and then go after the real drugs with the revenue instead of raping the american people over pot smokers lets fund the war on drugs by legalizing what has been proven to be less harmful than what is already legal (alcohol).
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:05pmI am sorry… but a Heroic Act does not make an American Citizen… and the complications are enormous!
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 10:14pmI beg to differ. His actions helped our nation immensely and at his own great peril.
Report Post »I for one, would welcome such a man as my neighbor.
That‘s not to say we shouldn’t look into it more(did he just have a grudge against Osama, or did he just think it was the right thing to do?), but from what little information this story provides, he seems like a prime example of what we would want in a legal immigrant.
NOOObama2012
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:51pmWait a minute……. I thought Barack Obama was the Hero?? he did everything, remember??
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:56pmCome on India… Be a pall, and take out Pakistan for us.
Report Post »I’ll give you a candy bar if you do.
Baddoggy
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:46pmIt only gets deeper the longr we are there. Why the hell were we there in the first place? Bin Laden was CREATED by the USA…The war machine is alive and well, spending our money, killing our boys in needless wars. Then we rebuild nations that are really just stinkholes…
Get our troops home now…The the Middle East implode on itself with the Muslim civil war and let Israel take care of the ones that are left!
Report Post »Mikev5
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:44pmToo me this just shows they knew were he was all these years and were just milking the US for all it could get they were just screwing us all these years.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:37pmAnd we need to hand them billions more in free borrowed Chinese Money…….
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:24pmNot “free” money… it’s going to cost us dearly.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:35pmNow that it’s all over the news, Doc Knock Laden is a dead man walking.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:26pmOur Politicians want to grant citizenship to 12 MILLION LAWBREAKERS and spit in the faces of every legal immigrant in the USA, but they don’t even offer citizenship as protection to the man who gave us Bin Laden????
Report Post »P8riot
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:32pmGreat point!
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:32pmA real “hero” would have shot him and walked away with his head down.
Report Post »callmechristina
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:37pm@theo…“The United States needs to stand with those who help us. We have not forgotten about Dr. Afridi.” “By granting him American citizenship we will send a direct and powerful message to those in the Pakistani government and military who protected the mastermind of 9/11 for all those years and who are now seeking retribution on those who helped to bring Bin Laden to justice,”
There are members of government who want to help this man. Am I missing something in this article?
Report Post »ForeverTexan
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:57pmPakistan is not a coherent nation. It’s a collection of tribes, most of whom don’t even like each other. While they are bickering among themselves we should send in another Seal team and rescue this man and his family. … Let the buggers chew on that.
Report Post »ConservativeBrony
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:08pmIt’s because our politicians hate our country and anyone who would dare to help it. It’s crazy.
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:55pm@Forevertexan
Don’t forget that collection of rival tribes have nukes that could easily find their way into the hands of the Taliban and al Quida
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 2:49pm@ callmechristina:
My point being that citizenship was (apparently) not offered up front as protection in exchange for the man who has murdered thousands of people in the name of Islam. It’s being offered as an after-thought now that danger and retribution are imminent. That’s called foresight. Don’t people play chess anymore?
My secondary point is that the same batch of snakes want to grant citizenship to millions of lawbreakers who have shown no such loyalty, and offer no such “return on investment”. By doing that, our government effectively sends the message that every LEGAL immigrant has wasted their precious money and time and energy becoming a citizen.
Report Post »Stacy In KY
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:23pmThe Obama Administration Could be Fumbling the Ball in the Middle East or to read even more news feel free to view: http://oleglorynews.com/2012/02/02/the-obama-administration-could-be-fumbling-the-ball-in-the-middle-east/ Then look around.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:21pmThe government screws their allies all the time and this is another example,he Afridi didn’t realize he was helping us but still we should try and help him out of this jam.If we don‘t help him out they’ll probably execute the doc and it’ll be harder to get people to wittingly help us in future operations.
Report Post »P8riot
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:18pmThis guy at least deserves political asylum. We MUST show we’ll support those who support the cause of freedom and justice!
Report Post »4-The-Truth
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:07pmSend Seal Team 6 back there for some more clean up.
Report Post »FarmSpy
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:01pm“Afridi was arrested shortly after the raid and is thought to still be in custody despite not formally being charged with a crime.”
OK, The US Government, which recently passed a law which allows them to arrest Americans and hold them without charging them, is complaining about a government which arrested it’s own citizen without charging him?? Am I the only one who sees the irony here?
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:58pmWell, since “pokiston’ our good friend and ally, we better just fold our hands and submit to their wishes, right Panetta? Right, Obama? You people in our govt. are the most beautiful definitions of cowardice and shame.
Report Post »P8riot
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:20pm@Tron – we normally disagree on things, but I loved the impersonation of how Obama pronounces Pakistan! lol
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:36pmyou said it all……..I have nothing to add
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 7:56pmWhy does Obama say ‘pokiston’ and then in the same sentence say ‘afganistan’ rather than ‘offgoniston’?? Inconsistent poser prez. Out with his arrogant a$$ in November!
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