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Pakistan charges doctor who helped CIA find Osama bin Laden with murder
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/23/pakistan-charges-doctor-who-helped-cia-find-osama-bin-laden-with-murder/
Pakistan charges doctor who helped CIA find Osama bin Laden with murder
By Agence France-Presse
Saturday, November 23, 2013 10:35 EST
Authorities in northwest Pakistan have charged the doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden with murder and fraud, officials and a defence lawyer said Saturday.
“A murder and fraud case was registered against Shakeel Afridi this week after a tribal woman accused him of killing her son,” a senior government official in Peshawar told AFP.
Afridi’s lawyer Samiullah Afridi confirmed the charges, which come some three months after his conviction for treason was overturned.
Afridi was recruited by the CIA to run a fake vaccination programme in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad in hopes of obtaining DNA samples to identify Al Qaeda chief bin Laden, although medics never managed to gain access to the family.
