Friday, June 29, 2012

The Nexus 7 is real, see it now!

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We won't talk. You can watch the video below in peace. 

Here are some of the specs. 

  • 7-inch 1280 x 800 display
  • Quad-processor
  • Tegra 3 12-core GPU
  • 8 GB and 16 GB models
  • 1 GB of RAM
  • 1.2 MP front-facing camera
  • Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, NFC, gyroscope
  • 9 hours video playback
  • 300 hours standby
  • 340 g
  • Chrome as standard browser
  • $199, shipping mid-July to US, Canada, Australia and UK, preorders available today
  • Includes $25 credit in Google Play store, lots of preloaded goodies

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Seven summer books for smarties

Duane Hoffmann / msnbc.com file

Can summer reading make you smarter? Definitely!

By Alan Boyle

Just because it's summer doesn't mean you have to turn your brain off. And just because it's a science book doesn't mean it has to be boring. If you're trying to beat the heat, here are seven recently published or soon-to-be-published books that will keep your brain purring along even when you're at the beach?? or inside your air-conditioned heat-wave hideaway.

"2312": This is the only fictional work on the list, but it's a doozy. This 576-page novel from Kim Stanley Robinson (who's best-known for his Mars Trilogy) is a crime-and-politics thriller set in an era when humans have colonized most of the solar system. There's even an asteroid-mining angle, which fits well with the recent revelations about Planetary Resources' plan to build a trillion-dollar industry. Some reviewers say the book meanders too much, but isn't that part of the appeal of a summer read? "2312" is one of the books on NPR's list of summer sci-fi recommendations.?

"Before the Lights Go Out": BoingBoing's Maggie Koerth-Baker focuses on two big questions in her book about the looming energy crisis. "Why should I care about energy?" and "Now that I care, what do I do?" She teases apart what's happening to the electricity grid and other elements of the world's infrastructure, then delves into the strategies that are being developed to change energy policy as well as personal lifestyles. The subject matter is serious fare, but Koerth-Baker takes you on a readable ride ??and there's no better time than a heat wave to get smarter about global warming.

"Darwin's Ghosts": The way some people talk, you'd think the theory of evolution was born full-grown from Charles Darwin's head, like Athena springing from Zeus' brow. Novelist Rebecca Stott tells the stories of the thinkers who blazed the trail for Darwin to follow, from Aristotle, to the 9th-century Islamic scholar al-Jahiz, to Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin's lesser-known contemporary. If you're looking for a historical grand tour with a biological bent, this one's for you.

"The Ocean of Life": A sea tale always makes for great beach reading, but this one has a salty bite to it. Callum Roberts, a marine scientist at the University of York, traces how the world's oceans have changed over the decades?? and why we don't seem to notice the degradation. "Roberts is that precious pearl: a practising scientist who not only knows his field inside out, but also understands how to write compelling, persuasive non-fiction," The Guardian's Leo Hickman says. Roberts sets forth his case for a "New Deal" that could stem the tide and save the oceans.?

"Trinity": My?book list for last year's holiday season?included a graphic book about the bongo-playing pioneer of quantum physics, "Feynman." This summer's graphic recommendation is "Trinity," Jonathan Fetter-Vorm's illustrated saga about the creation of the first atom bombs and their use at the end of World War II. The thin volume covers the science of radioactivity as well as the political and moral dimensions of the Manhattan Project. Fetter-Vorm tells the tale in complex shades of gray ? literally and figuratively.

"The Violinist's Thumb": Sam Kean's tribute to the periodic table, "The Disappearing Spoon," was heaped with praise a couple of years ago, and a similar reception awaits his book about genetics and its effects on our past, present and future. Kean throws in lots of historical tales with genetic twists ? for example, why Niccolo Paganini was naturally suited to play the violin, and?why JFK's skin was perennially tan.?"Our whole history is packed into DNA, back to the proverbial soup; think of it as a really long bedtime story, and then be sure to put 'The Violinist's Thumb' by your bed," Library Journal's Barbara Hoffert writes. Due out in July.

"Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?" If you're hankering to learn more about the human body's naughty bits, psychologist Jesse Bering's book should be right up your alley. Even if you're not obsessed with the shape of sex organs or the evolution of body fluids, you'll find lots of facts to fascinate you, or maybe infuriate you, in this compilation of essays from the "Bering in Mind" blog on Scientific American's website. If this is the kind of thing you're into, be sure to check msnbc.com's Body Odd blog as well. Bering's book is due out in July.

What's on your reading list for this summer? Share your faves in a comment below, or on the Cosmic Log Facebook page. And for still more book suggestions, check out the Cosmic Log backlist:


Alan Boyle is msnbc.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the?Cosmic Log page?to your Google+ presence. You can also check out?"The Case for Pluto,"?my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.

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Carly Rae Jepsen Gets 'Giddy' Talking About LMFAO Collabo

Canadian pop singer describes writing song with Redfoo over the phone.
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Carly Rae Jepsen has captured America's collective eardrums with her inescapable hit "Call Me Maybe," teasing just what pop lovers might hear on her in-the-works full-length debut, set for release in September.

In addition to her duet with Owl City on "Good Time" and an already-teased collaboration with her boss, Justin Bieber, the singer has shared that she is also working with LMFAO party rocker Redfoo on the fall release.

"I ran into Redfoo from LMFAO at the airport," she told Billboard magazine, via Ace Showbiz, about the collaboration, explaining that they've been writing together over the phone. So he called her, no maybes about it. "And we've been writing a song together today. Over the phone.

"What I really love about music is that despite all this craziness, the creative process remains the same," she continued. "And that same exciting feeling I had before anybody knew me, when I was just beginning to work on 'Call Me Maybe,' is the same feeling I had today with Redfoo from LMFAO."

Later this year, in addition to dropping her album, she'll also be hitting the road with Bieber on his massive Believe tour, kicking off in September.

"It's not that I didn't have my dream show built in my head before all of this — it's just that I never had the resources together to actually put it to life," she said. "I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something."

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

3 Basics Of Parenting To Keep In Mind | Pregnancy Blog

Posted on 25. Jun, 2012 by Danielle Buffardi in Family

Parenting is hard, there?s no doubt about that.

And what makes it even harder is that every child is drastically different and every family is outrageously their own, which makes for having a concrete set of guidelines to follow when it comes to parenting virtually impossible.

But what?s good is that there a few basic ways that most of us can agree on when it comes to giving our kids the best start in life.

Here?s three of them.

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1. Love Them Unconditionally

This means through the good and the bad, your love for your children is always to prevail.

It is this unspoken bond of loving them without condition that makes for your closeness as a family, fosters their sense of safety and reliability, and?continuously?strengthens the overall adoration that they feel for you as their parent.

Love is so powerful between a child and their parent that it can change them from good to bad or it can blanket them in such unbreakable security that there?isn?t?a question as to the level of their own self-worth.

Be the truest form of love that your child knows from day one in their life ? it?s the best possible start you can give them on their road to becoming well-rounded adults.


2. Spend Time With Your Children

Aside from your love, your children crave your presence in their lives.

They want to see you at their games, they want you to be snapping a million pictures at their dance recitals, and mostly they just want you to be there for them through every step and stage of their lives.

You are there one truest thing in their life that they can count on ? so don?t let them down.


3. Help Them Succeed

This?doesn?t?mean that you secretly do all of their book reports for them, this means that you do what?s in your power to make sure that your children have what they need to feel loved, safe, and secure while growing up in your house.

This also may mean that you let your child learn life?s lessons in order to understand that not every team comes out a winner ? or not every person they encounter is going to like them and treat them with respect.

Life?s lessons are the hardest to see your children go through but it?s necessary to have them understand that their life?isn?t?always going to be easy.

There will be hardships in all aspects that they will have to face, but that failing at certain things is actually succeeding at fostering their character and overall sense of self for the life ahead of them.

If?you?ve?done your job as a parent in creating a stable, safe, and loving environment for your child to grow up and come home to, then learning life? lessons will be perceived as a part of growing up.

Always letting your child know that home is where their heart is and that they are loved without reserve is the easiest way of setting up their road to succession for the future.

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Suspect held in fatal shooting of Denver officer

This undated photo provided by the Denver Police Department shows veteran Denver Police Officer Celena Hollis. Hollis was shot and killed during a free jazz festival, Sunday, June 24, 2012, in Denver. A suspect, Rollen Oliver, was taken into custody late Sunday after witnesses gave a description of the gunman. Police also recovered a gun and said they believe Oliver was the only person involved in the attack. Police Chief Robert White said investigators were not sure if Hollis was the target of the shooting when she answered a call about a disturbance in the park. (AP Photo/Denver Police Department)

This undated photo provided by the Denver Police Department shows veteran Denver Police Officer Celena Hollis. Hollis was shot and killed during a free jazz festival, Sunday, June 24, 2012, in Denver. A suspect, Rollen Oliver, was taken into custody late Sunday after witnesses gave a description of the gunman. Police also recovered a gun and said they believe Oliver was the only person involved in the attack. Police Chief Robert White said investigators were not sure if Hollis was the target of the shooting when she answered a call about a disturbance in the park. (AP Photo/Denver Police Department)

(AP) ? A 21-year-old man was arrested for investigation of first-degree murder after a veteran Denver policewoman who was raising her 12-year-old daughter alone was shot and killed during a free jazz festival, police said Monday.

Suspect Rollen Oliver was taken into custody late Sunday after witnesses gave a description of the gunman. Police also recovered a gun and said they believe Oliver was the only person involved in the attack.

Police Chief Robert White said investigators were not sure if Officer Celena Hollis was the target of the shooting when she answered a call about a disturbance in the park.

"There was a tragic event last night and a beautiful young, single mother and a valuable member of the Denver Police Department lost her life," Public Safety Manager Alex Martinez said.

Authorities said they did not know the cause of the disturbance.

Oliver appeared in court Monday and was ordered held without bond. District attorney's spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough said a decision on charges was not expected until later this week.

Oliver was escorted into the courtroom by six deputies, all wearing black and blue bands of mourning over their badges.

Oliver wore a red jail jumpsuit and had chains around his waist that were held by a deputy, according to the Denver Post (http://bit.ly/Lld3Bx).

Hollis was in uniform and off-duty when she was shot in the head and later died at a hospital.

Hollis was a Detroit police officer before she joined the Denver Police Department in 2005. She also served as president of the Denver Police Department Black Police Officers Organization.

Denver police Sgt. J.D. Unser said Hollis' parents and sister live in Denver, and Hollis was happy to come to the city, which she considered safer than Detroit.

Detroit Police Chief Ralph L. Godbee Jr. said in a statement that Hollis' death will be difficult and challenging for those who worked with her. On behalf of the Detroit Police Department, he expressed his sympathy to her family, friends and colleagues.

At least three shots were fired Sunday shortly after a jazz band finished playing on a lake-side pavilion stage. Concert-goers scattered during the shooting.

More than 1,000 people were at the City Park Jazz concert, the fourth of 10 shows scheduled for this summer in the annual series that draws families and others to one of the city's more popular summer events. The mayor said late Sunday the concerts should continue.

"We will not surrender what we consider special in this city to anyone," Mayor Michael Hancock said.

Nakira Doss, a jazz singer, said she hopes the series continues.

The 28-year-old mother was at the show Sunday and sitting near the stage with her children, ages 4, 5 and 7, when she heard at least two shots. As people ran past, she told her children to get on the ground before she laid over them.

"I'm trying to show them music, but at what cost," she said, nodding toward her children.

City Park sprawls across several hundred acres east of downtown. It's also the site of the Denver Zoo and Museum of Nature and Science, as well as ponds, trails and recreational fields.

After shots rang out, scores of people ran from the northwest side of the pond and stage area, confusing crowds on the south side of the pond that were still lingering over conversation and picnics in lawn chairs and blankets.

Someone announced from a loudspeaker on stage that the park was closed and told park goers to leave from the south side.

Samuel Bell, 19, of Denver said he was looking for a space for his scooter in the parking and heard several shots.

"We just arrived at the park. It was crowded, it was looking fun," Bell said. "And then 'pa-pa-pa-pa' outta nowhere.

"We just ducked," Bell said. "We pulled off in enough time to get away. It was crazy."

He estimated he was about 10 to 20 feet from the spot where the officer was shot.

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RN and Author, Theresa Brown

We are excited to share with you the debut of a monthly opinion column for the New York Times. Called ?Bedside,? by Theresa Brown, an oncology nurse, former guest on Nurse Talk? and the author of ?Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between.?? The column offers a nurse?s eye view on ?ways to make health care better and more humane.?

This week Theresa argues in favor of the Affordable Care Act.

Theresa says, ?The Supreme Court decision is looming, and while I try to hope for the best, they may invalidate the law, which in my view would be tragic for the many uninsured or underinsured Americans who need care.?

In the column she writes, ?Crowds at conservative rallies have, astoundingly, cheered the idea that uninsured people should, if they become ill or badly hurt, be left for dead. It?s easy to imagine such a thing in the heat of a rhetorical moment. But the reality is, I hope, harder to embrace. Because reality means a real person ? you, me, someone we know ? condemned to a possibly preventable death because, for whatever reason, they don?t have insurance.?

Read the column, Money or Your Life?at: http://TheresaBrownRN.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=422a80c56d2a0694a1a718284&id=45e74c3aa3&e=34fbf3473b

This column will also appear in print in the Sunday Week in Review section.

Our best to Theresa! Congratulations.

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Monday, June 25, 2012

From CIA asset to solitary cell in Pakistan

There can be few jail cells in Pakistan as lonely as the one occupied by Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden.

He is kept in solitary confinement to protect him from hundreds of convicted militants eager to avenge their hero's death. He may not be safe even from the guards ? only two trusted officials are allowed to see him.

Beyond the walls, Afridi is as much a prisoner of Pakistan's growing resentment of the United States as he is a victim of his own dalliance with high-stakes espionage.

No wonder then that he finds solace in the story of Younus in the Quran, almost identical to that of Jonah in the Old Testament, a prophet whose faith in God delivers him from the belly of a whale.

"My brother was confident that he will be released very soon. He said: 'I'm innocent, I've done nothing wrong,'" Afridi's brother Jamil told Reuters in a recent interview after visiting the jail in the northwestern city of Peshawar.

"There is a prayer said by one of the famous prophets, when he was eaten by a fish," Jamil added. "Dr Shakil is reciting that same prayer for his safety."

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The history of U.S. spycraft has seen few faster reversals of fortune than Afridi's journey from a participant in one of the most dramatic covert operations of modern times to isolation in the forbidding confines of the colonial-era Peshawar Central Jail, with red-brick walls and watch towers.

A small-time country physician long dogged by allegations of medical malpractice, Afridi, now 48, was recruited by the CIA some years ago, according to several U.S. and Pakistani officials. One Pakistani intelligence source said he was talent-spotted while working in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Peshawar in 2009 and used to gather intelligence on militants in the border area.

Later, he was asked to scout bin Laden's compound in the garrison town of Abbottabad, near the capital Islamabad, under the cloak of an anti-hepatitis campaign.

'A victim of the US game'
U.S. officials say Afridi provided important information on activity at the compound. Bin Laden was killed in a U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Abbottabad in May last year that was conducted without informing Pakistani authorities.

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Three weeks later, Afridi was picked up, interrogated for months and, in May this year, sentenced to 33 years in jail.

When he was led to a warder's office for the meeting with his brother on June 4, Afridi wore no shackles or handcuffs and was clad in the shalwar-kameez, the loose-fitting trousers and flowing shirt popular in Pakistan.

Jamil Afridi noticed he had gained weight - perhaps because conditions had improved since his transfer to the jail from detention centers used by intelligence agencies.

Jamil, a village schoolteacher, says he himself has been forced to adopt a rudimentary disguise, dark glasses and a cap, to ward off unwanted attention since appearing on TV to defend his younger sibling.

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"My brother has become a victim of the U.S. game," said Jamil, who spends much of his day worried that passersby are actually security agents tailing him. He used the term "angels" for the agents, as many Pakistanis do because they are believed to be everywhere but remain invisible.

"If my brother had really played a role for America, I think the Americans should have kept it secret."

Afridi meanwhile has become a new irritant in the complex ties between Washington and Islamabad, that have been deteriorating over the past 18 months despite Pakistan's pivotal role to U.S. interests in Afghanistan, counter-terrorism and nuclear security.

Afridi's incarceration fueled suspicions in the Obama administration that elements in Pakistan secretly sympathized with the militants the United States is trying to catch. Pakistan's failure to prosecute a single suspect accused of helping facilitate Bin Laden's stay near a military academy in Abbottabad has only sharpened the rancor.

The day after Afridi was sentenced, the Senate expressed its anger by voting to dock Islamabad $33 million in aid ? $1 million for every year of the term.

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To Pakistan's powerful military, which was enraged by the bin Laden raid, Afridi is a traitor. Critics in the tribal areas on the Afghan border say he deserves to be punished, not for helping the CIA but for his lack of scruples as a doctor.

Elders and former officials say he made money by performing unnecessary operations on unsuspecting villagers and that he was accused of sexual harassment by nurses.

Jamil Afridi dismisses the allegations as baseless. Some former colleagues have described Afridi as a diligent professional and U.S. officials have also leapt to his defense.

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"Available information showed Afridi was a respected member of the Pakistani health care community," said a senior U.S. official in Washington. "We are aware of efforts, put in place since Dr. Afridi's arrest, to denigrate his character."

U.S. officials say they offered to relocate Afridi and his family after the bin Laden raid, but that the doctor declined.

There was no way to independently confirm that account.

Jamil Afridi said he did not know whether his brother had received such an offer, but he believed Afridi would have been reluctant to take his two sons and a daughter out of Pakistan, where he had a stable job and his wife was working as the principal of a government college.

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"He had a good future," Jamil Afridi said. "Why would he move to the U.S. to live there?"

Naseem Bibi, a nurse who worked on his immunization drive in Abbottabad, also defended Afridi. "He was very nice to all the people in the team and did his job very diligently," she said.

Shakil Afridi was born in a modest home in a village in southern Punjab, a vast flatland of wheat, rice and cotton fields that is Pakistan's breadbasket.

Afridi's father had retired to Punjab after serving as a sergeant in the Frontier Corps, a paramilitary unit deployed to protect Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. The family hailed from the Afridi tribe, part of the fiercely independent Pashtun community that straddles the frontier.

His grandfather, Mir Dast, had won the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military award, in 1915 for valor at Ypres, Belgium, the site of some of the most intense fighting in World War 1.

Although the family was by no means wealthy, Jamil Afridi said his parents were the first in their village to obtain a refrigerator when electricity arrived there in the early 1960s.

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A dedicated student, Shakil Afridi qualified as a doctor in Peshawar before taking a series of government jobs as a health officer in the rugged land of monumental landscapes and scattered villages hugging the Afghan border.

For years, Afridi was trailed by accusations that he had sought to make easy money by convincing patients to go under his scalpel for unnecessary procedures at his private clinic.

Mohammed Yousaf, an elder from Khyber, said his sister had suffered months of complications and remained bed-ridden after Afridi performed surgery to treat her fever.

"We are illiterate villagers and thought whatever the doctor advised would be good," Yousaf said. "Dr Shakil used to advise surgery to every patient."

Allegations of medical malpractice are not unusual in Pakistan's tribal areas, and it is impossible to verify the validity of the claims.

What is certain is that Afridi rankled his superiors. "Keeping in view his extreme lust for money, I am ashamed to even call him a doctor. He is a corrupt, unreliable and low category officer," wrote the author of a provincial health department report on his performance in March 2002.

In the rough-and-tumble tribal areas, where militants often hold greater sway than the government, the allegations came to the attention of Mangal Bagh, a bus driver-turned warlord who commands an armed group known as Lashkar-e-Islam.

Papers released by the tribal court that sentenced Afridi last month said he had been found guilty of aiding the group, and not for treason for his role in helping the CIA, as Pakistani officials had initially stated.

Lashkar-e-Islam, which does nothing to hide its contempt for Afridi, has denied the court's finding. The group said it would try the doctor itself under Shariah law for working with the CIA to find bin Laden.

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Lashkar-e-Islam does, however, acknowledge that its fighters kidnapped Afridi for several days in April 2008 to investigate the allegations of medical malpractice made by locals.

"He was not a surgeon but conducted surgeries and deprived many people of their body organs," said Abdur Rashid Lashkari, spokesman for Lashkar-e-Islam.

Jamil Afridi said his brother had been forced to pay a one million rupee (now about $10,650) ransom to Lashkar-e-Islam to secure his release and rejected the allegations that his brother had performed improper surgeries.

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The year after that ordeal, Afridi decided to visit the United States, a vacation that seemed to lodge an admiration for the country in his mind.

In a move that perhaps suggests he was facing some financial strain, Afridi sold his car and a plot of land near Peshawar to fund the trip, his brother said.

He returned with fond memories. "He would tell us that people were so good in the U.S.," Jamil Afridi said.

Afridi was approached by the CIA through an Afghan agent while he was working at the Shamshatoo camp near Peshawar for refugees from Afghanistan in 2009, according to the Pakistani intelligence source, although the claim could not be independently verified.

It seems likely that Afridi would have been a prize catch for CIA agents desperate for an informant who could move freely in the tribal areas, a global hub for militant groups and al-Qaida fighters that is virtually sealed to outsiders.

As the operation to find bin Laden gathered pace, Afridi was set to work organizing an immunization drive in Abbottabad, 95 miles of Peshawar, the site of the compound where U.S. officials suspected he was hiding.

The aim was to obtain DNA samples from children living in bin Laden's compound to prove their father's identity, according to a former Pakistani security official.

Accompanied by three health workers, Afridi went to bin Laden's house and told his wives that an anti-hepatitis drive was underway in the area, the former security official said. He took cheek swabs from the children under the pretext of the campaign.

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"A woman went in (to the house) and said 'bring the children out, the doctor is waiting and he will give them the drops'," the former official said. "That's when he used the swabs."

It was unclear whether the CIA used the swabs to determine if the children were bin Laden's. But the doctor did provide intelligence on tight security arrangements at the house.

The raid that killed bin Laden sent shockwaves through Pakistan. The government was at a loss to explain how the al-Qaida chief could have been hiding in Abbottabad, or how U.S. helicopters had managed to slip into the country undetected.

As Pakistani intelligence agents scrambled to decipher what had happened in the months leading up the raid, the net began to close on Afridi.

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Intelligence officers learned that a doctor had visited the bin Laden compound, and got Afridi's name from district medical authorities. On May 23, Afridi was picked up while driving to his home in Peshawar.

A convoy of three double cabin pickup trucks forced his car to a halt and black-clad security agents jumped out and began to rifle through the doctors' identity cards, according to an account of the arrest by his brother.

"This is the one," said one of the security men and Afridi was blindfolded and taken to an anonymous holding cell.

Afridi had seemed oblivious to the dangers of falling into the hands of Pakistan's notorious intelligence services. His brother said Afridi was preparing for the sacred hajj pilgrimage along with his wife and had paid a deposit for the journey.

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Instead, he found himself languishing in jail, unable to reach out to the U.S. agents who used him in the closing stages of one of the longest and most expensive manhunts in history.

Afridi's lawyers, who talk strategy in their cramped office in a partly disused building in Peshawar's run-down commercial district, have lodged an appeal against his sentencing.

But there seems little prospect of a quick end to their client's ordeal. Jamil Afridi, who appeared on Pakistani television to defend his brother, says his own eight children now fear for his safety.

"For the first time when they saw me on different TV channels they were crying and telling me: 'We have already lost our uncle,'" he said. "'If we lose you, what will happen to us?'"

Additional reporting by Jibran Ahmad in Peshawar and Mark Hosenball in Washington; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan.

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