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His job? Collect DNA to confirm identity
BY SAEED SHAH MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
Jul 12, 2011 |
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani authorities have jailed a doctor who worked for the CIA before the raid that killed Osama bin Laden to create an elaborate plot to get DNA samples from those living at the al-Qaida leader's compound, as part of U.S. efforts to verify that bin Laden was there.
The doctor, Shakil Afridi, who holds a senior government health post in Pakistan, used nurses, who were able to gain entry to the residence on the pretext of giving vaccinations to children living there, according to Pakistani and U.S. officials and local residents.
The U.S. special forces operation that found and killed bin Laden on May 2 severely damaged relations between the U.S. and Pakistan, which was kept in the dark about the CIA's discovery that the al-Qaida leader was living in a town filled with active-duty and retired Pakistani military.
The doctor's detention has added to the tension, and American authorities are thought to have intervened on his behalf.
Previous news reports have quoted U.S. officials as alleging that the Pakistanis had detained some people for questioning about their role in assisting the U.S. in tracking down bin Laden.
But until Monday, there was no detailed information on anyone detained or what he or she might have done for the Americans.
The doctor apparently is the only person still under arrest. His story provides previously unknown details about the lengths the CIA went to as it tried to confirm suspicions that bin Laden was hiding in the compound.
The doctor's role was to help American officials know with certainty that bin Laden was in the compound, according to security officials and residents in Abbottabad, all of whom spoke only on the condition of anonymity because they feared government retribution.
After years of searching, the CIA had tracked an al-Qaida courier, known as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, to the Abbottabad compound last summer, but it still wasn't sure that bin Laden lived there. The al-Qaida chief and his family never left the house, which had no phone or Internet connection.
Bin Laden had always lived with his wives and children, even in Afghanistan before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the U.S.
The doctor was tasked with collecting DNA samples from those living in the house. A sample from any of the bin Laden children or grandchildren could be compared with DNA extracted from bin Laden's sister, who died last year in a hospital in Boston. A match would have indicated that at least bin Laden relatives were in the compound.
[h/t: DS]
BY SAEED SHAH MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
Jul 12, 2011 |
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani authorities have jailed a doctor who worked for the CIA before the raid that killed Osama bin Laden to create an elaborate plot to get DNA samples from those living at the al-Qaida leader's compound, as part of U.S. efforts to verify that bin Laden was there.
The doctor, Shakil Afridi, who holds a senior government health post in Pakistan, used nurses, who were able to gain entry to the residence on the pretext of giving vaccinations to children living there, according to Pakistani and U.S. officials and local residents.
The U.S. special forces operation that found and killed bin Laden on May 2 severely damaged relations between the U.S. and Pakistan, which was kept in the dark about the CIA's discovery that the al-Qaida leader was living in a town filled with active-duty and retired Pakistani military.
The doctor's detention has added to the tension, and American authorities are thought to have intervened on his behalf.
Previous news reports have quoted U.S. officials as alleging that the Pakistanis had detained some people for questioning about their role in assisting the U.S. in tracking down bin Laden.
But until Monday, there was no detailed information on anyone detained or what he or she might have done for the Americans.
The doctor apparently is the only person still under arrest. His story provides previously unknown details about the lengths the CIA went to as it tried to confirm suspicions that bin Laden was hiding in the compound.
The doctor's role was to help American officials know with certainty that bin Laden was in the compound, according to security officials and residents in Abbottabad, all of whom spoke only on the condition of anonymity because they feared government retribution.
After years of searching, the CIA had tracked an al-Qaida courier, known as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, to the Abbottabad compound last summer, but it still wasn't sure that bin Laden lived there. The al-Qaida chief and his family never left the house, which had no phone or Internet connection.
Bin Laden had always lived with his wives and children, even in Afghanistan before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the U.S.
The doctor was tasked with collecting DNA samples from those living in the house. A sample from any of the bin Laden children or grandchildren could be compared with DNA extracted from bin Laden's sister, who died last year in a hospital in Boston. A match would have indicated that at least bin Laden relatives were in the compound.
[h/t: DS]
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, this doctor should be tried for treason and executed or life in prison. An example needs to be set forward 
, we are with you Pakistan Army 
