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Thanks to this, we now have this:
Five female health workers vaccinating children against polio have been shot dead in Pakistan in a series of attacks blamed on Islamist militants. One victim was a 17-year-old schoolgirl volunteer.
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… Pakistan, where there has been a severe backlash against immunisation for polio and other diseases since the CIA used a Pakistani doctor, Shakil Afridi, to set up a fake vaccination programme as the agency closed in on the al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in his hiding place in the town of Abbottabad, in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, last year.
More:
“What’s most ironic, these are children from the most under-served communities, the worst off, being used for political purposes,” she said. “This is one of the deepest tragedies.”
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Those killed this week are among Pakistan’s 200,000 poorly paid local health workers, most of whom also provide such basic services as vitamin distribution.
*punchesawall*
Brilliant move, CIA. BRILLIANT.
IDEA: Why dont all the CIA officials who came up with/approved the idea of using vaccines as a ruse to find Osama bin Laden go out there and distribute polio vaccines?
*punchesawall*
2012-12-18 12:21:33