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Dunya News: Pakistan:-Dr Afridi guilty of militancy, not CIA links: repo…
Re: Dr Afridi gets 33 years imprisonment
**[INDENT]David Ignatius: A CIA gambit backfires
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Here’s the painful truth: Some people may die because they don’t get vaccinations, suspecting that immunization is part of a CIA plot. The rate of polio infection is rising in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria, in part because people believe conspiracy theories about vaccination. If the spread can’t be reversed in these three countries, warns a recent World Health Organization report, “polio eradication will fail.”
Among the organizations concerned is Save the Children, the biggest foreign-aid agency in Pakistan. According to the New York Times, Afridi told Pakistani authorities he was first contacted by the CIA through Save the Children, a claim that the organization denies. The Times reported that, after Afridi’s arrest last July, the NGO’s staff had been monitored by Pakistani intelligence and shipment of its medical supplies had been held at the border. A spokesman said Tuesday that the group hasn’t had any problems in recent months.
The potential danger for health workers was outlined in a Feb. 21 letter to CIA Director David Petraeus from Samuel A. Worthington, the president of an alliance of 200 NGOs that operate abroad. He warned: “Since reports of the CIA campaign first surfaced last summer, we have seen a continued erosion of U.S. NGOs’ ability to deliver critical humanitarian programs in Pakistan as well as an uptick in targeted violence against humanitarian workers. I fear the CIA’s activities in Pakistan and the perception that U.S. NGOs have ties with intelligence efforts may have contributed to these alarming developments.”
CIA spokesman Preston Golson, queried for this article, said he couldn’t comment on “any possible operational activity.” But he noted: “The agency is receptive to the views of the NGO community, and met with community representatives for a full and frank exchange on their concerns.”
The Afridi case is an example of what the CIA calls “cover for action.” The doctor was running a real vaccination program that gave him a reason to visit the areas where al-Qaeda operatives were hiding. A senior U.S. official explains: “Dr. Afridi was asked only to continue his program. . . . The vaccinations were real, and he never harmed a soul in the course of this campaign.”
Though Afridi never obtained bin Laden’s DNA sample, he did inadvertently confirm that the courier residing at the Abbottabad compound practiced extraordinary operational security, which was important intelligence. After bin Laden was killed, the doctor was offered options to leave Pakistan with his family, but he decided to stay, according to the U.S. official.
“There must have been a better, more ethical, way,” writes Heidi Larson, a public health researcher at London’s School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in a comment posted Sunday on the Guardian’s Web site. “This choice of action has jeopardized people’s trust in vaccines.”
Intelligence operations, by definition, operate in a gray area where the normal legal and ethical rules get fuzzy. But this case makes me wonder if some intelligence tactics, such as using health workers overseas, should be off-limits: If the operations are blown, the consequences will be too damaging, in unintended ways, to innocent people.
Re: Dr Afridi gets 33 years imprisonment
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^ his supporters won't reply now.
Re: Dr Afridi gets 33 years imprisonment
To explain the matter to the people who can't read Urdu, the news coming out today are that he was not punished for helping CIA in Osama bin laden case, Infact the guy had very good relationship with mangal bagh the taleban terrorist who has wrecked havoc in khyber agency and Infact he gave him hefty amount as a gift. This is the question that who would have given him that amount? And maybe this explains why his case was carried out in khyber agency.
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okay I'm a lil confused here, over the years, many were arrested and convicted for their link with miltants, but none of them got 33 years behind the prison??
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^ this guy has got special treatment no doubt, if he were an ordinary person he'd have become part Of missing persons, and down the road killed and dumped. Secondly the laws between tribal and pakistan's ordinary courts are different, in ordinary courts he'd have gone Scott free again as they need evidence for every thing, which is the biggest reason why culprits get freed from our judicial system (reform needed there). If the allegations on this guy are true then that's very grave indeed as this guy seems to have played in the hands of CIA against pakistan's national interests, and this raises other questions about cias role within pakistan as well.
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right, if thats really the case, then this harsh punishment will set an example for others who work against Pakistan, and sadly there are many, intelligence guys and folks who work in the government should be brought to justice and put on trial, rule of law should be applicable to everyone, no one should be above the law.
strange thing is, this guy is linked with militants, according to media, this was a open secret to everyone, and yet he helped CIA to track down OBL, that just says alot about US.
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^ even when Raymond Davis was caught the media reported that he had made calls to taleban, but Pakistan could do nothing to stop him. It’s a big game going on in the country which the army/intelligence knows better than us. The only way to stabilize the country is to reduce CIA footprint in the country, and take a step backwards, re evaluate the relationship and keep them at a realistic level.
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The army intelligence might know better than us but they are not acting in the country's national interests. If they have evidence about outsiders interfering in Pakistan then prove it. Can we trust the justice system when so many militants get away free?
How do we know CIA foot print is negative for Pakistan? There are games going on in Pakistan but one thing is clear that the ISI are the ones looking the most guilty. They have dug themselves in a hole and the fact that OBL was in Abbottabad, of al places, shows someone was in the know.
Maybe the game is that the ISI are quite clearly deceiving the world in the WOT and the CIA are doing the job they wont do properly? There is a common rumour CIA support Taliban in Pakistan. No evidence has been presented yet.
Either this DR's case is gettign very complicated or he is being framed.
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There’s no political will or courage on part of the government otherwise CIAs dirty games are nothing new.
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ofcourse they will say they are prosecuting him for something like that - why would they admit he is being punished for helping catch osama? Pak establishment did not get to be the owners of the country by being fools
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US bill links Pakistan’s aid to Afridi’s release*Washington: US lawmaker Rand Paul has introduced legislation in the Senate which seeks to eliminate aid to Pakistan until the conviction of CIA agent Dr. Shakil Afridi is overturned and he is released, news agencies reported.*According to reports, Paul has submitted another bill which seeks to grant Afridi US citizenship for his efforts in leading the United States to Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. Last week, Paul wrote a letter to US President Barack Obama, urging a delay in the release of foreign military financing to the government of Pakistan, and to hold all aid until Afridi, the informant who assisted intelligence services in identifying the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, is released. Earlier US State Department Spokesman Mark Toner said that the United States was still waiting for clarification from Pakistan regarding Dr. Afridi’s case. Last week it was revealed that Dr. Afridi was sentenced for his ties with a banned organization and not for helping the CIA in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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I hope the Americans cut off all aid to Pakistan, for a change we should work for them for free (and not like a mercenarty).