The doctor should have been taken out of Pakistan by the US and given political asylum for the role he played in the capture of BL. He became surplus to requirements when they got their man and shame on them for not taking him out of Pakistan and giving him political asylum for the major role he obviously played.

Note to self, dont type and have phone conversation at the same time, it leads to repetition!!!!

I agree, Ann. He was used and cut adrift. Yeah, chicken Satay please. I don’t suppose the CIA would fancy busting him out of prison, eh? Fried noodles thanks.

Ye I agree Pete nice American governments are a thing of the past

“U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton intervened on behalf of Afridi when he was first arrested, a senior U.S. official told CNN. Clinton argued that Afridi should be released and “will keep doing so,” the official said.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has acknowledged Afridi’s role in bin Laden’s discovery, saying he was extremely helpful in the operation against the al Qaeda leader.

A statement from U.S. Sens. John McCain, R-Arizona, and Carl Levin, D-Michigan, who both sit on the Armed Services Committee, also said that Afridi’s actions were far from treason and that the sentence was “shocking and outrageous.”

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/23/world/asia/pakistan-bin-laden-doctor/index.html

You really are very gullible!!!

read you’re history Bin Laden and his mates were founded trained and payed for by the US and those who were active in Libya and presently in Syria still are

Read the difference between you’re and your.

Bin laden was trained by the CIA when Afghanistan were at war with Russia. So there was no way in hell he was ever going trial.

left out to dry

the tactic is simple. declare a war on terror. allow for special legislation and procedure during that war

and then let that war continue forever

I don’t really understand politics, but to create laws that are unconstitutional because we were attacked is more like a dictatorship. The people had no input. Sure we want the perpetrators punished. That is what courts are for. Otherwise we are no better than our attackers.

Since the Patriot Act was enacted

Presidential election: 2004, 2008
Senate election: 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010
House of Representatives election: 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010

If people like Brandt put as much effort into trying to get involved in politics instead of wasting their time posting on foreign websites they maybe the Patriot Act might have become a real issue in the past decade instead of an issue for the tin foil hat brigade.

Stephen

with all due respect, LOL!!! Do you serious think that BL deserved to be given a trial? I think you will find that there are not too many people out there that would agree with you. Bin Laden lost all of his rights the minute he gave the go ahead for 9/11.

I’d still take a world with American influence and sense if justice ahead if anything Bin Laden and his cohorts have to offer.

Bingo, popcorn. Bingo.

Popcorn yes American influence since WW2 lets see South American 500,000 dead by backing rightwing nutters . Korea 500,000 ,Vietnam 1.5mil, Iraq 1.5mil (not including Iranians killed in US backed Iran/Iraq war) Afghanistan ? no confirmed figures and next we will have Iran how many millions ?

A trial?? Obviously you weren’t in New York on sept 11th. He got what he deserved. And the US gave him a sea burial in accordance with Muslim tradition. They should have burned him.

That is because the CIA has some magic power to do whatever the H they want. Of course if the same happened here (In US) the avengers would be called terrorists.

He admitted to it in a video in 2004

“Even though we are in the fourth year after the events of September 11th, Bush is still engaged in distortion, deception and hiding from you the real causes. And thus, the reasons are still there for a repeat of what occurred.

So I shall talk to you about the story behind those events and shall tell you truthfully about the moments in which the decision was taken, for you to consider.

I say to you, Allah knows that it had never occurred to us to strike the towers. But after it became unbearable and we witnessed the oppression and tyranny of the American/Israeli coalition against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, it came to my mind.

The events that affected my soul in a direct way started in 1982 when America permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon and the American Sixth Fleet helped them in that. This bombardment began and many were killed and injured and others were terrorised and displaced.

I couldn’t forget those moving scenes, blood and severed limbs, women and children sprawled everywhere. Houses destroyed along with their occupants and high rises demolished over their residents, rockets raining down on our home without mercy.

The situation was like a crocodile meeting a helpless child, powerless except for his screams. Does the crocodile understand a conversation that doesn’t include a weapon? And the whole world saw and heard but it didn’t respond.

In those difficult moments many hard-to-describe ideas bubbled in my soul, but in the end they produced an intense feeling of rejection of tyranny, and gave birth to a strong resolve to punish the oppressors.

And as I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that we should punish the oppressor in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children.”

http://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2004/11/200849163336457223.html

Of course you don’t actually have any proof of this and it is much more likely that Bin Laden the millionaire relied on rich Saudi’s for financial backing instead of the US funded ISI program. Even if he was funded by the US what is so ironic about it? Is it ironic that Chavez had a career in the US backed Venezuelan Army? Is it ironic that the US and Soviet Union fought with each other and then against each other? History is full of such scenarios.

Got in before me :)

Jim Corr