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CIA Schemed To Get DNA Of Osama Bin Laden's Kids

STEVE INSKEEP, host:

Over the last few days. Weve received a glimpse into how far the CIA was prepared to go to track down Osama bin Laden. The CIA recruited a Pakistani doctor to set up a fake vaccination program in the town where they believed Osama bin Laden was living.

MARY LOUISE KELLY, host:

The idea, as first reported by Britain's Guardian newspaper, was to obtain a DNA sample from one of bin Laden's children. Now the fake program apparently did not work but it got the doctor identified as Shakil Afridi in big trouble.

INSKEEP: The Guardian newspaper says he's being held for working with a foreign intelligence service, and the punishment for that could be the death penalty.

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