A very expensive Hypocratic Oath

[dannubis]

A Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 33 years in prison on Wednesday for conspiring against the state, officials said, a verdict that is likely to further strain the country's relationship with Washington.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/interna...#ixzz1vhZsGjga




With friends like this, who needs enemies ?

[Elok]

He swore an oath to inadequate government, you say? Well, that describes Pakistan's government as well as any other, so I don't see what the problem is.

[dannubis]

Dang... foiled again.

I meant writing hypocritic...

[The Mad Monk]

He was being hypocritical?

[loinburger]

It would be hypocritical for him to execute a bunch of terrorist attacks and to then turn in Bin Laden. AFAIK he wasn't a terrorist leader trying to eliminate the competition, but maybe the Belgians have more information on the matter.

[dannubis]

I of course meant the Pakistani governement...

But yes, according to some vaccination is all a big terrist plot to overthrow our free will...

[loinburger]

Nothing hypocritical about the Pakistani government's actions - they implicitly supported Bin Laden by allowing him to live in their country for who knows how many years, and now they're explicitly supporting Bin Laden by punishing the guy who turned him in.

[Felch]

Pakistan makes me yearn for our alliance with Uncle Joe.

[Uncle Sparky]

from the NYPost article
"Shakil Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA..."

I guess anyone accepting American charity should now suspect the CIA will be behind it. I could see this putting American (as well as Canadian & European) aid workers at even greater risk. American foreign policy sucks dead camel balls.

[Kuciwalker]

[DinoDoc]

With friends like this, who needs enemies ?

Pretty sure the doctor is feeling like that wrt the US atm given the relative silence from the US government in reference to his fate.

[rah]

If you read the story link.

Senior U.S. officials have called for Afridi to be released, saying his work served Pakistani and American interests.

[The Mad Monk]

No. That part of the operation was well and trully FUBAR'd, and will feed already rampant distrust of these programs for years to come.

[DinoDoc]

If you read the story link.

Show me a quote from President "Spiking the Football" Obama demanding action on this issue. This is especially important given that it was apparently his admin that exposed the guy in the first place.

[DinoDoc]

No. That part of the operation was well and trully FUBAR'd, and will feed already rampant distrust of these programs for years to come.

It should never had been exposed.