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(The New York Times)   "Doctor Who Helped Find Bin Laden"   (nytimes.com) divider line 11
    More: Hero, Osama bin Laden, criminal code, Peshawar, Abbottabad, Khyber, Shakil Afridi  
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2012-05-23 09:47:38 AM
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Rather interesting that Pakistan considers the Dr helping the US find bin Laden was guilty of treason. Does anyone still think that Pakistan wasn't complicit in hiding bin Laden?
2012-05-23 10:31:20 AM
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mongbiohazard: If Breivik had killed 3,000 people and Norway found him in Leesburgh and managed to raid his house, grab him and leave without hurting a single US citizen... I'm pretty sure we'd give them a pass on it, and anyone who helped them manage to pinpoint him too.

Really? I can't imagine we'd be at all cool with any step in the process of a foreign military flying uninvited into our country in the dead of night, crashing then exploding a helicopter into one of our buildings, shooting five people to death and injuring others, and then flying away, all without telling our government anything until two hours later. Even if the raid were against Satan himself, how could there not be serious repercussions for that?

Maybe we could forgive the guy who told the foreigners where Satan was hiding out, but only if he told us first, preferably several weeks in advance. Even then, we'd have Fark threads hundreds of comments long arguing about whether it was treason to encourage another country to attack America, even for a good cause, and even when the US had clearly failed to act. If the tattler were anything but an Angel, I highly suspect he'd lose out in the court of public opinion, and the court of law would be a toss-up.

I think you are hugely underestimating how much the American people would panic at a foreign military flying in and summarily killing five people, even if those people weren't themselves American.
2012-05-23 10:04:16 AM
2 votes:
Well i guess that'll make sure he never tells anyone that the whole bin laden story is absolute bullshiat.
2012-05-23 09:51:09 AM
2 votes:
Sigh, fark Pakistan...fark 'em right in the ear!
2012-05-23 09:50:57 AM
2 votes:
and heres the lesson.

The CIA will leave you to be tortured and imprisoned for helping them and good luck with anymore vaccination programs
2012-05-23 11:33:09 AM
1 votes:
Between Israel and Pakistan we have some excellent taste in strategic partners.
2012-05-23 10:06:45 AM
1 votes:
Digital Communist: In all fairness, if a US citizen conspired with a foreign intelligence agency to facilitate a military raid that concluded in multiple assassinations on US soil, that person would face serious consequences. Regardless of the target, the man is a traitor to his country.

If it's treason to turn in a threat to all of Humanity, then maybe your so-called country is a gang of complicit scumbags and don't deserve any allegiance.
2012-05-23 09:57:14 AM
1 votes:
TV's Vinnie: They jail the guy who pinpointed the Most Wanted Man on Earth.

And we are shoveling billions to Pakistan for WHAT reason now?


In all fairness, if a US citizen conspired with a foreign intelligence agency to facilitate a military raid that concluded in multiple assassinations on US soil, that person would face serious consequences. Regardless of the target, the man is a traitor to his country.
2012-05-23 09:54:59 AM
1 votes:
Yes, the doctor who helped to undermine global efforts to vaccinate people by using vaccination as a form of espionage is a hero. If you're one of the many farkers that love to rant about the stupidity of the anti-vax crowd (rightfully so) *and* praising this guy as a hero, please go DIAF.

The CIA's Bad Idea
2012-05-23 09:52:02 AM
1 votes:
turtleking: The CIA will leave you to be tortured and imprisoned for helping them and good luck with anymore vaccination programs

No shiat. This is an atrocity on the US's part.
2012-05-23 09:45:26 AM
1 votes:
. . .and for his efforts in helping to find Osama Bin Laden, he's been convicted of "acting against the state" (i.e. Treason) by a local court and sentenced to 33 years in prison.

I know why we pretend that Pakistan is an ally instead of an enemy, but times like this make that facade really hard to hold on to.
 
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