Dr. Shakil Afridi has been recently sentenced to 33 years imprisonment for his alleged role in helping the U.S. find Osama Bin Laden by running a fake vaccine program in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Why was he not protected by the U.S. from the beginning? Why wasn’t Dr. Afridi taken out of Pakistan immediately following Operation Neptune’s Spear? He put his life on the line to give America the World’s Most Wanted and he was left alone to try and flee Torkham border on his own, then being sentenced on 23 May, 2012.

He could have been, should have been given new identity and flown out with military troups then and there, then given American citizenship. End of.

Here it is 1 year after Bin Laden was found, and it seems a little too late that U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton says Pakistan has no justification for imprisoning Dr. Afridi. That Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has asked President Obama to intercede on Dr. Afridi’s behalf (and has also introduced two bills to Congress, one of which to make Dr. Afridi a naturalised American citizen (he should have been for the last year!) and to give him the Congressional Medal of Congress (I suppose that is supposed to keep him safe in a Pakistani jail, where I doubt he’ll make 33 years). And now we’ve cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million. Now that’s really hurting them. Especially since U. S. purportedly wants to lift Pakistan’s 2012 total aid to $3.4 billion from the $2.96 billion Congressional Research Service says has been requested for 2012. (Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/05/11/did-pakistan/#ixzz1vtkLDJs0).  Do the maths.  It’s a drop in the bucket comparatively.

One million for each year he is to be held in prison. That’s what he’s worth for finding the man whom was responsible for more than 3,000 Americans being brutally murdered on 11 September 2001 by Bin Laden. Not directly, but all the same.

One million per year to do something that President Bush couldn’t do in 8 years, and that President Obama may not have been able to do without Dr. Afridi’s help.

I do hope that the faint cries from Washington do some good for Dr. Afridi. But, I would ask you, regardless of where you live, America, Britain, France, Ireland, wherever, please for humanity’s sake do something. Write letters, protest, do something.