In an exclusive report today (May 28, 2012), the Reuters website -- through a series of interviews in Pakistan during t he past few days -- has learned that the Pakistani doctor, who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden, faced accusations of corruption and other wrongdoing long before he was captured by Pakistani intelligence agents and then sentenced to 33 years in jail for treason.
Several current and former Pakistani officials described the doctor, Shakil Afridi, as a hard-drinking womanizer who had faced accusations of sexual assault, harassment, and stealing.
According to a 2002 Pakistan health department document -- which Reuters scrutinized -- Afridi was deemed to be corrupt and unreliable and unfit for government service.
U.S. officials have hailed Afridi, aged about 45, as a hero for helping pinpoint bin Laden's location in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, where the al Qaeda leader was killed in May last year in a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs.
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