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Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 01:06 AM Jan 2012

Pakistani Doctor, Provided Key Information To U.S. In Advance Of Bin Laden Raid

WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the U.S. in advance of the successful Navy SEAL assault on Osama bin Laden's compound last May.

Panetta told CBS's "60 Minutes," in a profile to be broadcast on Sunday, that Shakil Afridi helped provide intelligence for the raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/shakil-afridi-bin-laden-raid_n_1238198.html
I thought Bush jr. got him, how sad.

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Pakistani Doctor, Provided Key Information To U.S. In Advance Of Bin Laden Raid (Original Post) Grassy Knoll Jan 2012 OP
Did the doctor agree to have his role publicized? snagglepuss Jan 2012 #1
Pakistan want to try him for treason... Grassy Knoll Jan 2012 #2
Why would there not have been plans made to get the doctor and his family out of Pakistan snagglepuss Jan 2012 #5
From CNN... Grassy Knoll Jan 2012 #3
Get that doctor out of there with new identity and set him up here in a cushy residence and business judesedit Jan 2012 #4

Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)
2. Pakistan want to try him for treason...
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 01:28 AM
Jan 2012

regardless of his role to truth telling, he's a dead man, and debunked the fact Bush idiots
had nothing to do with this. OBAMA 2012

snagglepuss

(12,704 posts)
5. Why would there not have been plans made to get the doctor and his family out of Pakistan
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 07:53 AM
Jan 2012

before the raid? Getting this sort of assistance is crucial so to not make every effort to protect the doctor will totally discourage others from coming forward with information.

judesedit

(4,439 posts)
4. Get that doctor out of there with new identity and set him up here in a cushy residence and business
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 05:49 AM
Jan 2012

Only fair. Maybe he'll survive this outing.

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