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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/w...laden-given-jail-term-official-says.html?_r=1A Pakistani doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency locate Osama Bin Laden through a fake vaccination campaign in the city of Abbottabad was convicted on Wednesday of treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison, a senior official in Pakistan said.A tribal court here found the doctor, Shakil Afridi, guilty of acting against the state ...
In January, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta confirmed that the United States had been working with Dr. Afridi to gain access to Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad in the months before the raid....
According to Pakistani security officials, Dr. Afridi admitted to helping the C.I.A. before the raid by Navy Seals that killed Bin Laden in May 2011. That operation angered Pakistani officials who viewed it as a violation of the country's sovereignty and because they were not told about it ahead of time.
this will certainly motivate other pakistani nationals to assist our efforts to thwart terrorism [/s]
and panetta, the head of the CIA, is the person who put this operative at risk. such a dumb ass