CIA planned to break out Shakil Afridi from Peshawar jail: Russian news agency

[nadeemkhan110]

Dr Shakil Afridi. Photo: File

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) failed to conduct an operation to stage a prison break for Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi who had helped US authorities track down al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, a Russian news agency has claimed citing a source familiar with the situation.

The report, quoting another source, states that Washington had earlier requested Islamabad to extradite Afridi to the US.

The source went on to suggest that Afridi's release and extradition is crucial for other CIA operations in Asia.

After his detention in 2011, Afridi was sentenced to 33 years for involvement in anti-state activities by a tribal court in 2012.

However, the sentence was later reduced.

Afridi was recently shifted, as per media reports, from Peshawar to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi due to security concerns.


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However, a source familiar with the situation told Sputnik the doctor was placed in another jail because of the planned prison break.

His brother and lawyer have claimed the move precedes his release from prison as he has served the minimum sentence.

The CIA, in turn, refused to comment on news that Pakistani intelligence thwarted the agency's plan to orchestrate a prison escape for Afridi.

Also on Monday, a US Department of State official told Sputnik that Washington hopes that the Pakistani authorities will take all necessary measures to ensure the safety of Shakeel Afridi.

"Pakistan has assured us that Dr Afridi is being treated humanely and is in good health," the official stressed.

The issue of Afridi's release is reportedly one of the major obstacles to the improvement of ties between the US and Pakistan.


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Soon after the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011 in a US raid in Abbottabad, the US media reported that Afridi had contributed to the success of the CIA operation by collecting DNA samples of bin Laden's family by order of the intelligence agency.

Then-CIA director Leon Panetta and then-US secretary of state Hillary Clinton had confirmed the doctor's role in eliminating the terrorist, after which Afridi was arrested by Pakistani authorities.

 

[Jaanbaz]

All they had to do was just bribe some Pakistani rulers to release him, what's the point of doing such idiocy? American bravado sometimes ends up biting them in the ***.

 

[MBT 3000]

should be put under watch

 

[somebozo]

Russian playing Pahapa Kutni..fan the flame!

 

[BATMAN]

Russian playing Pahapa Kutni..fan the flame!

Why is than GEO echoing it?

 

[Baloch Pakistani]

All they had to do was just bribe some Pakistani rulers to release him, what's the point of doing such idiocy? American bravado sometimes ends up biting them in the ***.

No need to bribe the rulers, just bribe some "Chillarr" in the jail and he will be out of jail the next day.

 

[Maxpane]

Breaking bad tan tanaaa

 

[Irfan Baloch]

All they had to do was just bribe some Pakistani rulers to release him, what's the point of doing such idiocy? American bravado sometimes ends up biting them in the ***.

I dont understand this drama

CIA itself tipped off the clueless Pakistanis about Dr Afridi after conducting the raid since they no longer needed that sellout and Pakistanis needed someone to release their embarrassment on.

this scumbag was known to CIA as a degenerate and corrupt Son of a bitch. his selection had nothing to do with his sympathy for 911 and doing the "right thing" in support of War on terror. he was known to have operated Taliban and AL qaeda terrorists for money and was also blamed by tribal people for conducting unnecessary surgeries and conning them of money hence he was an ideal candidate for CIA to recruit with an offer for money but after conducting fake polio vaccinations leading to the raids, he was no longer needed.
I think if he is really useful to USA they will simply call PM Abbassi or Ahsan Iqbal to bring him to their embassy in Islamabad in case they want to sue him to spew hatred against Pakistan on Western media.

 

[Kabira]

I dont understand this drama

CIA itself tipped off the clueless Pakistanis about Dr Afridi after conducting the raid since they no longer needed that sellout and Pakistanis needed someone to release their embarrassment on.

this scumbag was known to CIA as a degenerate and corrupt Son of a bitch. his selection had nothing to do with his sympathy for 911 and doing the "right thing" in support of War on terror. he was known to have operated Taliban and AL qaeda terrorists for money and was also blamed by tribal people for conducting unnecessary surgeries and conning them of money hence he was an ideal candidate for CIA to recruit with an offer for money but after conducting fake polio vaccinations leading to the raids, he was no longer needed.
I think if he is really useful to USA they will simply call PM Abbassi or Ahsan Iqbal to bring him to their embassy in Islamabad in case they want to sue him to spew hatred against Pakistan on Western media.

What I don't get is USA could have easily gotten him out of Pakistan before Osama raid. Looks like they were never serious about as far as taking him to USA is concerned. Americans in Afghanistan promise afghanis all the time to shift them to USA if they help, and they don't keep their promise most of the times.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Why don't they send a Black Hawk for daring rescue?