Posted on 06/18/2012 9:17:22 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
The California congressman who's made the plight of jailed Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi a personal cause said Monday he's concerned the case has fallen off the radar screen -- and that without U.S. intervention, the man credited with helping track Usama bin Laden will be left to "suffer in a dungeon."
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., was among the many U.S. officials outraged last month after Afridi was sentenced to 33 years in prison.
But little has been heard of his case since that time.
"It doesn't appear that other people are taking this case seriously," Rohrabacher said. "I don't see any movement" by Congress or the Obama administration.
Rohrabacher told FoxNews.com that he's "frantically" trying to keep people focused on it, and claimed officials are not prioritizing the case -- which he said reflects poorly on American values.
"If we let that person just hang on a limb and forget him, now that he's put himself in danger for us -- well shame on us," the Republican congressman said. "I am very concerned that the United States will shame itself by letting Dr. Afridi sit there and suffer in a dungeon, and be tortured."
Afridi's brother Jamil told Fox News last month that Shakil Afridi had suffered torture while in custody ahead of his sentencing. At the time, Jamil Afridi appealed for the U.S. Embassy to help fight his legal case.
The State Department says it's still focused on the case.
Spokesman Mark Toner told FoxNews.com in an email that "we continue to urge Pakistan to consider his appeal in a manner that is expeditious, transparent and consistent with due process."
"We consider his treatment and his sentencing to be among the range of important issues we are in the midst of discussing with the Pakistani (government)," he said.
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Yup, and who is that Jewish Al Qaeda prisoner they threaten to kill? Weinstein? Anyone know if they killed him already? The Zippo regime is in way, way over it’s head, they can’t even make a statement over this, just play golf.
Warren Weinstein. I just checked and don’t see any news about him since they released a video of him about a month ago.
This case should forcefully be taken away from the State Department and handled by Americans instead.
“But little has been heard of his case since that time. “
Yep, imagine that. Hussein and his leftist media are shoveling real fast to cover this up because we are supposed to think that hussein took out binladen all by himself. To actually give someone else credit for the kill and to rescue that someone else isn’t in the program.
Obama’s certainly not giving it a second thought.
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