{"id":4847,"date":"2020-04-25T16:12:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T16:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=4847"},"modified":"2020-04-25T16:12:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T16:12:31","slug":"this-brave-doctor-who-helped-us-nab-osama-bin-laden-has-been-languishing-in-jail-since-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=4847","title":{"rendered":"This Brave Doctor Who Helped US Nab Osama Bin Laden Has Been Languishing In Jail Since 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shakil Afridi has languished in jail for years &mdash; since 2011, when the Pakistani doctor used a vaccination scam in an attempt to identify Osama bin Laden&#8217;s home, aiding US Navy Seals who tracked and killed the al-Qaida leader.<\/p>\n<p>Americans might wonder how Pakistan could imprison a man who helped track down the mastermind of the 9\/11 attacks. Pakistanis are apt to ask a different question: how could the United States betray its trust and cheapen its sovereignty with a secret nighttime raid that shamed the military and its intelligence agencies?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Shakil Afridi saga is the perfect metaphor for US-Pakistan relations&#8221; &mdash; a growing tangle of mistrust and miscommunication that threatens to jeopardize key efforts against terrorism, said Michael Kugelman, Asia program deputy director at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakil Afridi has languished in jail for years &mdash; since 2011, when the Pakistani doctor used a vaccination scam in an attempt to identify Osama bin Laden&#8217;s home, aiding US Navy Seals who tracked and killed the al-Qaida leader. Americans might wonder how Pakistan could imprison a man who helped track down the mastermind of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}