Who really fingered Osama bin Laden?

Mohammad Sajjad/AP - Jamil Afridi, left, brother of Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi, holds a a news conference in Peshawar, Pakistan on May 28, 2012. The brother of a doctor sentenced to 33 years for helping the United States track down Osama bin Laden says that his brother is innocent.

Pakistan recounts in new report how doctor helped U.S. in bin Laden operation

By Richard Leiby, WashPost, Thursday, July 26, 3:26 PM

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani doctor who aided the CIA’s hunt for Osama bin Laden would meet his handlers on Saturdays in Islamabad. They’d pick him up at certain gas stations, then make him lie in the back seat, hidden under a blanket, before taking him to be debriefed.

A woman in her late 30s named Kate was the spy’s first handler. She had green eyes, blond hair and a British accent.

Such novelistic details emerge in a newly surfaced Pakistani intelligence report supposedly based on interrogations of Shakil Afridi, the imprisoned physician who has been lauded in Washington as a hero for his role in the operation that led to the al-Qaeda chief’s killing but is branded a traitor here.

“He met 25 times with foreign secret agents, received instructions and provided sensitive information to them,” states the investigative report, filed by prosecutors Wednesday in a tribal appeals court where Afridi is seeking to overturn his 33-year sentence. “The accused was aware that he was working against Pakistan.”

The narrative laid out in the report could not be independently verified. The interrogations that it purports to summarize were carried out under a tribal judicial system in which Afridi had no counsel and could not challenge the evidence against him.

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