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.</s>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.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: 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.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News.
The British newspaper the Guardian reports the CIA recruited a Pakistani doctor to set up a fake vaccination program in the town where Osama bin Laden was living. The idea was to obtain a DNA sample from one of bin Laden's children.