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Lawyer for doctor in bin Laden operation killed in NW Pakistan HomeAsia-PacificPakistan Wed Mar 18, 2015 9:29AM Samiullah Afridi (R) leaves the court building in Peshawar, Pakistan, on October 30, 2013. Samiullah Afridi (R) leaves the court building in Peshawar, Pakistan, on October 30, 2013. Police authorities in Pakistan say a former lawyer for the Pakistani doctor who helped Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents hunt former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has been shot dead in Pakistan's troubled northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The officials said unidentified assailants opened fire at the lawyer, identified as Samiullah Afridi, late Tuesday when he was returning to his home on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Peshawar, located approximately 190 kilometers (118 miles) northwest of the capital, Islamabad. He was representing Dr. Shakil Afridi (seen below), who was convicted in May 2012 of "conspiring against the state" by giving money and providing medical treatment to militants, not for helping the CIA with a fake vaccination campaign to capture bin Laden. Afridi was initially sentenced to 33 years in jail, but the sentence was later commuted to 10 years. The lawyer fled to the United Arab Emirates in December 2013 due to threats from militants, but had been occasionally visiting Pakistan while keeping a low profile. Last year, Afridi announced that he had stopped working on the doctor's case. Senior police officer Shakir Khan said the lawyer had only recently returned to Pakistan after having spent three months abroad. Pakistani security forces have launched an investigation to determine the motive behind the killing. ***Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) splinter group, Jundullah, later claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on Afridi.*** [Emphasis added.] a DNA test to officially confirm the identity of the corpse before its hasty burial. MP/HJL/HRB II. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/18/lawyer-for-pakistani-doctor-who-helped-cia-find-osama-bin-laden-shot-dead Lawyer for Pakistani doctor who helped CIA find Osama bin Laden shot dead Two militant groups claim responsibility - one claiming the killing of Samiullah Afridi was in retaliation for his support of Dr Shakil Afridi Relatives move the body of Samiullah Afridi, who was killed by unidentified gunmen, at a hospital in Peshawar. Afridi was the former defence lawyer for Shakil Afridi who had been jailed after helping the CIA find al-Qaida chief Osama Bin Laden. Photograph: Khuram Parvez/Reuters Reuters Tuesday 17 March 2015 23.38 GMT A Pakistani lawyer under death threats for defending a doctor who helped CIA agents hunt al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was shot dead on Tuesday, police said. Samiullah Afridi represented Dr Shakil Afridi, who was jailed in 2012 for 33 years for running a fake vaccination campaign believed to have helped the US intelligence agency track down bin Laden. That sentence was overturned in 2013 and the doctor is now in jail awaiting a new trial. Samiullah Afridi was shot dead on Tuesday as he was returning to his home in the northwestern city of Peshawar, police said. According to media, he had recently returned there from abroad after leaving Pakistan for his safety. "He was returning home when armed men opened fire. He died on the spot," police official Jamal Hussain said. A hospital spokesman added that Samiullah Afridi was shot twice, in the abdomen and the neck. ***Two Pakistani militant groups claimed responsibility for the lawyer's death. Jundullah, a Taliban splinter group, said: "We killed him because he was defending Shakil, who is our enemy."*** [Emphasis added. ***A Taliban faction, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaatul Ahrar (TTP-JA), later said it had shot him.*** [Emphasis added.] "Dr Shakil Afridi had spied on our respected and supreme leader Sheikh Osama to the CIA," TTP-JA spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said. "Samiullah Afridi had represented his case," Ehsan said, "that's why we decided to eliminate him when we can't approach Dr Shakil." US officials have hailed Shakil Afridi as a hero for helping pinpoint bin Laden's location before a 2011 raid by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed the al-Qaida leader after more than a decade of searching for him. Samiullah Afridi stopped representing the doctor last year, saying he had become a target. "I have been receiving threats from various organisations, and because of those threats I even went to Dubai some time back," he told Reuters TV. "Some organisations do not want us to continue defending this case ... Not only is my life in danger, my family is also in danger. I have therefore decided to quit this case." Shakil Afridi's original sentence damaged ties between Pakistan and the United States that were already strained over the bin Laden raid. Angry US senators withheld $33 million in aid from Pakistan in retaliation. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. 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