Senate votes unanimously to cut Pakistani aid over conviction of doctor who revealed bin Laden's location

Long overdue and not enough, since it was "largely symbolic." "Washington US cuts Pakistan aid over conviction of 'Bin Laden doctor,'" from Asia News, May 25 (thanks to C. Cantoni):

Islamabad (AsiaNews/Agencies) - In a 30-0 vote, a US Senate panel cut US$ 33 million from its aid package to Pakistan in response to the conviction of a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama Bin Laden. The cut by the Senate Appropriations Committee to its US$ 52 billion US foreign aid budget was largely symbolic, one million dollar for every year of Shakil Afridi's sentence.

On Wednesday, Dr Afridi was convicted for treason under a tribal justice system in Khyber district and fined US$ 3,500 for helping the United States find al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad near the capital Islamabad. Bin Laden was killed by US Special Forces in May 2011.

Dr Afridi, who is now in jail in Peshawar, was not present in court and so was unable to give his side of the story. He ran a fake vaccination programme to collect DNA samples that allowed US intelligence to find al Qaeda's founder.

"The United States does not believe there is any basis for holding Dr Afridi. We regret the fact that he was convicted and the severity of his sentence," Clinton said, calling his treatment "unjust and unwarranted."

Analysts say the Pakistani establishment opted for such harsh treatment not only to defy the Americans but also to send a message to all Pakistani contacts of American diplomatic missions to desist from repeating Dr Afridi's "mistake"....

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"The United States does not believe there is any basis for holding Dr Afridi. We regret the fact that he was convicted and the severity of his sentence," Clinton said, calling his treatment "unjust and unwarranted."

Instead of " regretting this fact ", why aren't you and your boss demanding that he be released to the American Embassy to be given political asylum, Madame Hillary ?

What a great message this sends to anyone who might want to tip off western intelligence agencies to terrorist activities - "We appreciate your help, but help us at your own risk. There is nothing in it for you except a long jail sentence, or worse..".

That's a great strategy, Hillary - the miniscule loss in jizya ( which we shouldn't even be paying to begin with ), won't even be noticed.

So much for " winning the hearts and minds ", of our " friends and allies ".

Find out where he is being imprisoned then send a SEAL team to bust him free! Shoot their way in, and out!

Then deduct the cost of the operation from Pakistan's jizya hand out!

The cut aid over the sentencing of a doctor, but do nothing over their blasphemy laws used to slaughter their minorities.

The right action for the wrong reason. But Pakistan can give him clemency and evade the cut, though they will never remove the Sharia or blasphemy laws.

$33 million is just a drop in the bucket. If I had my way, we'd send them NOTHING! Not even one thin dime should be given to the barbarians.

That should be "They cut aid..."

Just the fact that Pak is convicting the doctor for helping us as if we were their enemy, should be the reason to cut them off completely, today. But not before destroying their nuclear capabilities. Could be good practice for Iran.

Instead of paying any more jizya to any more muslim countries (pakistan, saudi arabia, palestinian territories, et al), cut the entire amount in half and give it all to Israel to bolster their defensive/offensive capabilities and wash our hands of the enitre region. More money to India and Thailand as well to quell the rising insurgencies there. It would save the West a ton of money and give Israel the means to handle the "situation" in whichever way they please. At the same time, stop all muslim immigration to the West. And that's the Byline.

Ima

Well it's about time... the light bulb seems to be flickering a bit in the minds of our Congress men.

If Obama tries to veto this Congress should start the Impeacment process.

Obama HE absoultely has to go!

PETER BERGEN CONTRADICTS OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ON AFRIDI

Peter Bergen in his excellent book Manhunt wrote that Afridi failed to obtain the DNA samples from the Bin Laden kids and was in no way a key informant in finding the terrorist. The following is an except from Chapter 8 of his book:

"After Panetta was confident that the team had exhausted every possible approach, they narrowed it down to three or four avenues. One creative, if ethically questionable, tactic was to recruit Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor from the tribal regions, to mount a bogus vaccination program in and around bin Laden’s neighborhood. The idea was to get access to the compound, take samples of the residents’ blood, and then match those with known samples of bin Laden family DNA that were in the Agency’s possession. In March, Dr. Afridi traveled to Abbottabad, telling locals that he had funds to start a free hepatitis B vaccination drive. So as not to arouse suspicion, Afridi recruited nurses and health workers to administer the vaccinations starting in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of the city rather than in the more affluent Bilal Town. But Afridi’s team was never able to get DNA samples from the bin Laden children."

Why does the US give any aid at all to a country which can afford nuclear bombs?

My estimation of the Senate of the USA soars.

@PJG, I also ask the same question about the priorities of the Pathololgicalstan princes and powers. Methinks our aid to Pathologicalstan was a bribe to get it to cooperate in our Afghan adventure. That we tracked Bin Laden down to a Pathologicalstan army town is proof enough that they were always playing a double game with us.

Aid to Pakistan is stupid.

However, if we are going to be stupid, at the very least we should make a meaningful cut in response to Pakistan's treatment of this doctor. Otherwise we are complete idiots.

We should not be sending any money to Pakistan. Pakistan has proven to be an enemy of the West, especially the U.S. We need to stop funding our enemies.

And Britain should end all 'aid' to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan too.


"We should respond to the sentencing of Shakil Afridi by cutting all aid to Pakistan."

By Michael Burleigh


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2149800/Shakil-Afridi-sentencing-We-respond-cutting-aid-Pakistan.html#ixzz1vxAWsFc8

http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-strips-aid-as-pakistan-jails-doctor-20120525-1za1l.html


''We need Pakistan, Pakistan needs us, but we don't need Pakistan double-dealing and not seeing the justice in bringing Osama bin Laden to an end,'' the Republican senator Lindsey Graham said.


So you admit Pakistan is double dealing you yet you continue to finance them. If you admit they are double dealing you & you keep financing them doesn't that make you traitors for financing the enemy? You invaded Afghanistan for harbouring Bin Laden on suspicion, yet Pakistan actually did it & you keep financing them. Pakistan should be declared an enemy of the U.S. & the west on multiple counts of treason.

Britain should have the courage to cut all aid to Pakistan - all it achieves is corruption, payments to terrorists and funding the Taliban to kill our troops - we are funding the murder of our own people!

The Cameron-Hague appeasement of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on this is
another political indication of British subservience to the votes of the large Muslim Pakistani diaspora in Britain.

Let's all of us - Yanks, Canucks, Aussies, Brits, *every kuffar country that is currently wasting men and money in Afghanistan - get all our men out of Afghanistan. Take everything moveable - especially all the nicer military toys - with us.

Then, the moment the last man is out of Afghani airspace, ALL the 'aid' from ALL of us - to both Pakistan and Afghanistan - cuts off. Just. like. that.

Instantly, everybody's (that is, all the participating kuffar country's) exchequer starts to look a lot healthier.

And then all Afghani and Pakistani Mohammedans on Infidel soil who haven't yet managed to inveigle their way into getting citizenship, get told that it's time to pack; they're being sent home to their particular bit of dar al Islam. Because if Infidels are unwelcome on 'sacred' Mohemmedan turf - as has been made abundantly plain - then Mohammedans aren't welcome here, either. And not one more Afghani or Pakistani Mohammedan (we will, very carefully, make allowances for bona fide Christians and HIndus and Sikhs from Pakistan) will be allowed to enter our countries, whether as tourist or 'businessman' or 'student' or 'refugee' or 'asylum seeker' or 'immigrant' or, well, anything at all. Pull up the drawbridges with a clang.

And think of the money we'd all save...Example: think of how much better off Greece would be, if the million or so almost-entirely-Mohammedan illegal 'immigrants' - muhajiroun - who have flooded into Greece via Turkey in the past ten years - many of them Pakistani, Somali, and AFGHAN - were all scooped up and Returned to Sender. Back where they belong.

'Aid' to Egypt, the 'Poooor Palestinians [TM]', Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Somalia, etc etc etc - all the assorted Islamic hellholes that are busy sucking down the tribute or the jizya, whichever way they interpret all that 'aid' in their tiny little minds - should end at the same time.

La commedia e finita.

And think of the money we'll save.

We could clear a lot of debts, fix up decaying infrastructure, invest in R & D for alternative energy sources, and invest in selected countries that are on the front line of Jihad, so as to bring the advancing Nothing right up short and start pushing it back on itself.

Re your:

"Let's all of us - Yanks, Canucks, Aussies, Brits, *every kuffar country that is currently wasting men and money in Afghanistan ...."

I'd advocate a formal "United English Speaking Union" including the New Zealanders to form a countervailing power against all Islamic governed nation-states to formalize the primacy of our way of life....which is under penetration and subversion by Islam and its Muslims......and, let's not hear any whining murmurs about so called "moderate" Muslims.....a classic oxymoron.

We're being played for fools by the Afghans, The Iraqis, and the Paki's, and the Iranians.

Isolate and quarantine the lot of 'em.

We're being suffocated by our nauseating "political correctness"....the most shallow type of correctness imaginable.

Senate votes unanimously to cut Pakistani aid over conviction of doctor who revealed bin Laden's location
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Well, it's not much, but I'm glad to see it.

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