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India-Pakistan
Obama administration to blame for jailing of hero Bin Laden doctor, says Pakistani report
2013-06-01
[FoxNews] It was the B.O. regime that sealed the fate of the Pak doctor jugged
Please don't kill me!
for helping nail Osama Bin Laden, by divulging key details after the fact and dooming any chance Shakil Afridi's cover story could win his freedom, according to a confidential Pak report.
When former Secretary of Defense and ex-CIA Director Leon Panetta
...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993....
publicly acknowledged Afridi's role in the ruse which helped the CIA pinpoint Bin Laden's presence in an Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
compound, any chance that Pak authorities could help him get out of the country vanished, according to what some have called Pakistain's version of the 9/11 Commission, a 357-page report from an independent body set up to probe the aftermath of the 2011 raid by Navy SEALs in which the Al Qaeda leader was killed.

"The statement by the U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who was the CIA Director when May 2 happened, confirming the role of Dr. Afridi in making the U.S. liquidation mission a success, rendered much of what Afridi told the Commission very questionable if not outright lies," states the report, which has not been released, but which FoxNews.com has viewed.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  "Hey, you let us count coup on Bin Laden, we'll let you count coup on some CIA agents and some Seals."
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2013-06-01 22:36  

#3  small price to pay for the exaltation of Teh Won
Posted by: Frank G   2013-06-01 10:36  

#2  Since when is the Obama admin. to blame for anything?

/MSM
Posted by: Raj   2013-06-01 10:31  

#1  Dr. Afridi is part of the PAK government and administration drama. There had to be a treacherous Pakistani goat. Afridi is the goat. Panetta simply put him first page, above the fold.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-06-01 09:07  

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