Pakistan sentenced a guy to 33 years for helping us find Bin Laden

[JackRiddler]

4. Several words of your headline are debatable: "us," "find" and "Bin Laden"

If you believe the story, he worked for a foreign espionage agency with a criminal history far more terrible than Bin Ladin's (which is why OBL was, appropriately enough, a CIA asset). The CIA has done more damage to Pakistanis directly than Bin Ladin did.

This gentleman took DNA from strangers (search without a warrant) on a false pretext, and his acts served to make people paranoid about a vital public health measure (vaccination).

Then the CIA screwed their own spy, as usual. Should he be getting 33 years? Certainly not. That's wildly excessive. But maybe how this plays in the US isn't as important to Pakistani PR teams as how this plays in Pakistan.