U.S. Secretary Of Defense Panetta Comments On Pakistan

ABC's “This Week” host Jake Tapper interviews Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., May 25, 2012. DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley

Leon Panetta Calls Pakistan Doctor’s Treason Sentence ‘Disturbing’ -- ABC News

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said it was “disturbing” and “difficult to understand” Pakistan’s 33-year prison sentence for a doctor who aided the United States in finding terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

Shakil Afridi, a 48-year-old Pakistani doctor, was convicted last week of high treason by a Pakistani tribal court for working with the CIA by running a fake vaccination program near the al Qaeda leader’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in an attempt to collect DNA samples from bin Laden’s relatives to try to confirm his location.

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Panetta: U.S-Pakistan ties, 'most complicated we've had,' hurt by doctor sentence -- Winnipeg Free Press/Canadian Press

My Comment: On the issue of Pakistan .... he clearly looks both concerned and frustrated.