Posted on 03/17/2015 10:15:17 AM PDT by Theoria
A Pakistani lawyer under death threats for defending a doctor who helped CIA agents hunt al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was shot dead on Tuesday, police said, and a Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility.
Samiullah Afridi represented Dr Shakil Afridi, who was jailed in 2012 for 33 years for running a fake vaccination campaign believed to have helped the U.S. intelligence agency track down bin Laden. That sentence was overturned in 2013 and the doctor is now in jail awaiting a new trial.
Samiullah Afridi was shot dead on Tuesday as he was returning to his home in the northwestern city of Peshawar, police said. According to local media, he had recently returned there from abroad after leaving Pakistan for his safety.
The Pakistan militant group Jundullah, a splinter group of the Taliban, claimed responsibility. "We killed him because he was defending Shakil, who is our enemy," spokesman Fahad Marwat told reporters.
U.S. officials have hailed Shakil Afridi as a hero for helping pinpoint bin Laden's location before a 2011 raid by U.S. special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed the al Qaeda leader after more than a decade of searching for him.
Samiullah Afridi stopped representing the doctor last year, saying he had become a target. "I have been receiving threats from various organizations, and because of those threats I even went to Dubai some time back," he told Reuters TV.
"Some organizations do not want us to continue defending this case ... Not only is my life in danger, my family is also in danger. I have therefore decided to quit this case."
Shakil Afridi's original sentence damaged ties between Pakistan and the United States that were already strained over the bin Laden raid. Angry U.S. senators withheld $33 million in aid from Pakistan in retaliation.
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Wow
Pakistan is a toilet.
I am sure that the Obama administration is doing everything possible to help ensure the safety of the doctor, his family and everyone trying to help him. /sarc
Hey Obama, get some $$$$ to Pakistan and get the doctor, who helped “YOU” to get Bin Ladin. Without his help “YOU” could not have caught Bin Ladin. Just pretend that the doctor is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
chuckle. funny, but true.
“Pakistan is a toilet.”
That whole part of the world is a toilet, excepting Israel.
His is blood directly, and I do mean directly, on Obama.
Fact
I role play a lot and I can imagine the thoughts I had when I was skulking around my own nation, assisting the perceived enemy (America) to capture my (spit) president ... and thinking ... Lord .. it would sure be nice if the Americans would reward me with me and my family being brought to America in appreciation
And I can further imagine, as time wore on the sense of fear that developed when every effort to be recognised (without being killed) was ignored.
And further still ... I imagine his last days or moments were of disgust for the great Satan that sold me out
At least ... that's what I would have thought
From the headline, who was shot dead, the lawyer, the doctor, or bin Laden?
none ... reuters reporter ... still reportin’, it seems, too.
Did they really find and kill 0sama bin Laden? I thought he was buried alive in Tora Bora?
A toilet is an efficient means of waste disposal.
Pakistan is a third world s***hole. Big difference.
Well, you know, I did read the opening line, and the situation was explained right away. And, yes, though the headline was ambiguous, I guess it would be really hard for an editor to construct a line that would have enough information to catch the reader’s eye, My critical remark may not have been very fair — “Bin Laden’s Doctor’s Lawyer Assassinated” might be a stab at it.
Well, you know, I did read the opening line, and the situation was explained right away. And, yes, though the headline was ambiguous, I guess it would be really hard for an editor to construct a line that would have enough information to catch the reader’s eye, My critical remark may not have been very fair — “Bin Laden’s Doctor’s Lawyer Assassinated” might be a stab at it.
Obama is an EVIL little man.
Sounds like the filthy commie pigs at Reuters are thrilled. I’m not surprised.
How can a country expect nationals of enemy nations to aid it if it does not take care of them after?
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