Pakistani Doctor Who Helped Locate Bin Laden Jailed for 33 Years
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A Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden was found guilty of treason and sentenced to 33 years in jail.
A court in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region yesterday convicted the doctor, Shakil Afridi, said Kifayatullah Durrani, a government spokesman in Peshawar. Afridi was charged with running a fake vaccination program in Abbottabad, the Pakistani town where bin Laden hid for as long as five years, to obtain a DNA sample from those living in the compound where the al-Qaeda leader was shot dead by Navy SEALs last May.