Posted on 05/25/2012 7:08:08 PM PDT by Kaslin
Allies: The name Shakil Afridi may not mean anything to you, but it should. He's the Pakistani who bravely helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden. For his pains, he just got 33 years in a Pakistani prison.
Afridi, a Pakistani physician, believed enough in the U.S. mission and in bringing the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to justice that he helped the CIA find the reclusive terrorist. He should be rewarded — not punished.
Yet, a Pakistani court sentenced him to 33 years in prison for "treason" and, adding insult to injury, a fine of about $3,500.
Of course, we're told the court that found him guilty is actually a "tribal" court, applying highly idiosyncratic law that is both local and tribal. Had it been a Pakistani government court, he might well have been executed for the crime of treason.
That's small comfort, since he'll serve his term in Peshawar Central Jail — a vile, corrupt hellhole in which he'll be a target for both the Taliban and al-Qaida. Afridi's chances of serving out his term alive are virtually nil.
What's especially upsetting about this is that Pakistan is nominally an ally with the U.S. We say nominally because it in fact acts routinely to undercut U.S. interests, and to aid the Taliban and other radical fundamentalist Islamist groups in the region. Some ally.
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Foment gatherings...deploy daisy cutters.
Yet Richard Amitage "leaks" Valerie Plame's name, someone who was never actually a "real" intelligence operative, but the ministry of propaganda called for the heads of everyone who ever worked in the Bush Administration, or for that matter, anyone who ever met President Bush.
It's really a shame that there's no mainstream news reporters or media in the US, because the sheer number of genuine news stories and shocking scandals by the current regime dwarfs anything seen in any 3rd world bananna republic.
Mark
Blue badges in perilous position under this regime.
The error of Obama is a deadly era ....
Exactly right and it makes me absolutely disgusted!
Obama killed Osama.
And probably Doctor Afridi.
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