Doctor gets hard time for heroic act

A Senate panel expressed its outrage over Pakistan's conviction of a doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden, voting to cut aid to Islamabad by US$33 million - $1 million for every year of the physician's 33-year sentence for high treason. The punitive move came on top of deep reductions the Appropriations Committee had already made to U.S. President Barack Obama's budget request for Pakistan, a reflection of the growing congressional anger over its co-operation in combatting terrorism. The overall foreign aid budget for next year had slashed more than half of the proposed assistance and threatened further reductions if Islamabad failed to open overland supply routes to U.S.-led NATO forces in Afghanistan. And there could be even more on the way because the doctor serving time for high treason didn't just help the United States but the world. Al-Qaeda are a terrorist organisation and they do need to be put in their place. I would've given that doctor a medal instead of having him put behind bars.