Health workers linked to CIA's Osama bin Laden assassination plot are sacked

February 23, 2012 by legitgov

Health workers linked to CIA's Osama bin Laden assassination plot are sacked --Punishments handed out to 17 low-ranking health department employees for unwittingly helping CIA 22 Feb 2012 Seventeen local health workers have been fired in Abbottabad for their part in a CIA scheme to try to confirm the presence of 'Osama bin Laden' in the northern Pakistani town. The low-ranking health department employees were punished for helping Dr Shakil Afridi, who was assigned by the CIA to set up a fake vaccination scheme in Abbottabad, ahead of the 3 May US military operation that found and killed the al-Qaida [al-CIAduh] leader there. In July last year, the Guardian revealed that Afridi was hired by the American spy agency, which was trying to establish whether Bin Laden was living inside a compound to which it had tracked an al-Qaida "courier".