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May 31, 2012

Pakistani Doctor Sentenced for Ties to Warlord 
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Reports have emerged a Pakistani doctor sentenced to 33 years in prison
after helping to track down Osama bin Laden was actually convicted of
colluding with an Islamist warlord — not of aiding the CIA. The
news comes after U.S. lawmakers voted to cut $33 million in aid to
Pakistan in response to Shakil Afridi’s sentence. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton had also condemned his conviction. Afridi had worked
with the CIA to set up a fake vaccination program to help locate bin
Laden. But a Pakistani court reportedly declined to examine Afridi’s
CIA ties, instead focusing on his connection to a warlord whose fighters
are battling the Pakistan Army.

 

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