Pakistan sacks doctor who helped find Bin Laden

Pakistan sacked on Thursday government surgeon Shakeel Afridi recruited by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden, officials said. Afridi, who is in custody, was fired on disciplinary grounds by the government in northwest province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where bin Laden was killed during a clandestine U.S. raid last May that humiliated Pakistan, AFP has reported. Pakistan sacks doctor who helped find Bin Laden “Seventeen other medics who worked on the same fake vaccination program set up by the CIA in a bid to confirm the Al-Qaida chief was living in the city of Abbottabad have already been sacked from their government posts,” Provincial Health Secretary Ashfaq Khan told AFP. Afridi, who worked for years as a government surgeon in the lawless tribal district of Khyber, is in police custody and a panel investigating the bin Laden raid has recommended that he be put on trial for treason. Pakistani officials believe Afridi may have known about bin Laden's presence in Abbottabad and shared the information with U.S. intelligence agents. In January, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta confirmed Afridi had worked for U.S. intelligence by collecting DNA to verify the 9/11 mastermind's presence, and expressed concern about Pakistan's treatment of him. Panetta said he believed someone in authority in Pakistan knew where bin Laden was hiding and as a result Islamabad was not warned about the raid. Osama bin Laden (FoNet, file) Tanjug

Pakistan sacks doctor who helped find Bin Laden

“Seventeen other medics who worked on the same fake vaccination program set up by the CIA in a bid to confirm the Al-Qaida chief was living in the city of Abbottabad have already been sacked from their government posts,” Provincial Health Secretary Ashfaq Khan told AFP.

Afridi, who worked for years as a government surgeon in the lawless tribal district of Khyber, is in police custody and a panel investigating the bin Laden raid has recommended that he be put on trial for treason.

Pakistani officials believe Afridi may have known about bin Laden's presence in Abbottabad and shared the information with U.S. intelligence agents.

In January, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta confirmed Afridi had worked for U.S. intelligence by collecting DNA to verify the 9/11 mastermind's presence, and expressed concern about Pakistan's treatment of him.

Panetta said he believed someone in authority in Pakistan knew where bin Laden was hiding and as a result Islamabad was not warned about the raid.