Pak spy doctor helped CIA confirm Osamas hideout in Abbottabad

May 02, 2012 13:12

As we promised, more stories on the Osama assassination.

Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi, who helped the CIA to gather information about Osama bin Laden through a fake vaccination program also assisted in the final confirmation of the terror leader's hideout in Abbottabad, it has emerged.

Dr Afridi angered Pakistan's military authorities by helping the CIA organise a fake vaccination program to extract DNA from inside the bin Laden compound in Abbottabad.

The program failed, but Dr. Afridi provided another vital clue, Pakistani intelligence officials told The London Times.

According to the New York Post, Dr. Afridi obtained a telephone number for, and spoke to the compound's putative owner, Abu Ahmed al Kuwaiti, who was bin Laden''s right-hand man.

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