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| Sentence Cut for Bin Laden Figure | |
| 2014-03-16 | |
| [NY Times] A Pak official reduced by 10 years the 33-year sentence of a Pak medical doctor who had helped the C.I.A. track down the late Osama bin Laden ... who used to be alive but now he's not... , local news media reported Saturday.
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in 2011 after members of an American Navy SEAL unit killed Bin Laden in his 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. The raid caused the tumultuous relationship between United States and Pakistain to plummet to a new low as Pakistain called it a violation of the country's territorial illusory sovereignty. In 2012, Dr. Afridi was convicted of treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison. On Saturday, the judicial official, Munir Azam, the commissioner of Frontier Crimes Regulation in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , reduced Dr. Afridi's sentence to 23 years. Dr. Afridi earned the wrath of Pak officials after he helped pin down Bin Laden's location under the cover of a vaccination campaign in Abbottabad. But the charges against him in a tribal court accused him of aiding a banned bad boy group. Dr. Afridi denies the charges. | |
| Posted by:Fred |