{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"CIA Abandons Its Covert Pakistani Asset","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article109398.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article109398.html'\u003ECIA Abandons Its Covert Pakistani Asset\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWars have been lost and nations have fallen due to intelligence failures.  The United States, through pure luck, continues to survive despite intelligence failure after intelligence failure.  A clear example is the case of Dr. Shakil Afridi.  Dr. Afridi is a Pakistani physician who was covertly hired by the CIA to help locate Osama bin Laden.  He set up a vaccination clinic as a cover to obtain DNA samples of persons suspected of links to al-Qaeda, and it was Dr. Afridi who helped lead the (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}