Disclaimer: Beforing making any judgements, please make it clear that Critic's Den team highly condemn the cold blooded murder of field workers of the so called vaccination program in Pakistan on 19th Dec '12... This post is not written to present any justification what so ever for this heinous crime against humanity...
Since 9/11 it has become fashionable to blame everything on shadow militant groups like TTP, Al-Qaeda etc, whose real identity affiliations, and interests they are serving, are highly debatable. This was also done exactly after the cold blooded murder of polio vaccination drive field workers today on various location across the country. It is not known with certainty who is behind this at this point in time, however pseudo liberals and intellectuals of our country have already figured it out that who ever is behind this (heinous and highly condemnable act) is definitely is a local, perhaps affiliated with organizations like TTP etc... organizations whose actual affiliation are themselves questionable...
Just to avail the opportunity, we would like to point out that the official narrative that this act has actually critically hampered the anti-polio vaccination drive, is yet also questionable. The readers are requested to browse the headlines of various international news sources (see below) which appeared a few months back regarding the act of CIA to sabotage the actual polio vaccination drive. All across, this act of CIA was condemned and was declared fatal for the UN's program to end polio across the globe. It is quite possible that vaccination program carried out at this point in time across the country is something else, particularly after the revelation that CIA has already done so in an attempt to locate OBL in Abbottabad and other locations across the country.
Now this is an important side of the story, which also needs to be brought into to complete the picture, as otherwise the drawing misdirected conclusions from this episode would become inevitable.
Check it out...
Polio vaccination - Fake drive may harm real one: ISLAMABAD, July 15: A ruse that American CIA reportedly played to get DNA samples of Osama bin Laden is feared to play havoc with the prime minister`s special polio vaccination programme, Dawn has learnt. More... http://dawn.com/2011/07/16/.../
CIA Organized Fake Vaccinations To Obtain Osama Bin Laden's Family DNA: Guardian: The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader's family, a Guardian investigation has found. More... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/11/.../
CIA's Fake Vaccination Campaign to Find Osama Bin Laden Raises Public-Health Fears: The story, which first appeared in The Guardian on Monday, alleges that the CIA sent vaccinators into the Pakistani city of Abbottabad in the months before the raid by US special forces that killed Osama bin Laden. The vaccination campaign, for hepatitis B, went door-to-door, with the hopes of gathering DNA from one of bin Laden's children to verify the location of his compound. A nurse reportedly entered the compound with an electronic device, though it is unclear whether DNA was gathered, or whether the device remained behind. Marie Harf, a CIA spokeswoman, declined to comment on the alleged plot. More... http://www.scientificamerican.com/.../
Bin Laden raid harms Pakistan polio fight: "Among other factors, international public health officials point to the distrust of vaccines and immunization campaigns as contributing to the lack of progress in eradicating the disease in Pakistan... This distrust is only increasing in light of reports about the CIA campaign". More... http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/06/.../
C.I.A. Vaccine Ruse May Have Harmed the War on Polio: In Pakistan, where polio has never been eliminated, the C.I.A.’s decision to send a vaccination team into the Bin Laden compound to gather information and DNA samples clearly hurt the national polio drive. The question is: How badly? After the ruse by Dr. Shakil Afridi was revealed by a British newspaper a year ago, angry villagers, especially in the lawless tribal areas on the Afghan border, chased off legitimate vaccinators, accusing them of being spies. More... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/.../
Vaccines, the CIA, and how the War on Terror helped spread polio in Nigeria: How a polio vaccination in Nigeria collapsed in the face of anti-Western sentiment and conspiracy theories, and why using a vaccine drive to hunt Bin Laden may not have been the smartest idea ever conceived by the CIA's strategists. More... http://www.guardian.co.uk/.../
American NGOs assail CIA over fake polio drive: ISLAMABAD: An alliance of about 200 US-based NGOs, many of them working in humanitarian operations in Pakistan, has expressed deep concern over a vaccination campaign carried out in Abbottabad last year by the Central Intelligence Agency and expressed fear that the action may jeopardise the lives of aid workers in the country. More... http://dawn.com/2012/03/02/.../
The CIA's fake vaccination drive has damaged the battle against polio: Calls for an emergency response to polio are not unrelated to the news that Shakil Afridi has been convicted for his part in the CIA plot. More... http://www.guardian.co.uk/.../
Yes, vaccinations are a CIA plot: All over the world, poor people resist vaccination campaigns in the belief that they are part of a plot by powerful authorities to take advantage of them. The CIA operation in Pakistan turns these fears from crazy conspiracy theories into accurate and rational beliefs. But what's really tragic is that Pakistan happens to be at the epicenter of a crucial ongoing vaccination programme. More... http://www.economist.com/blogs/.../
Acknowledgements: Thanks @Khalidkhan787 for sharing the links
Follow @javaidomar
Since 9/11 it has become fashionable to blame everything on shadow militant groups like TTP, Al-Qaeda etc, whose real identity affiliations, and interests they are serving, are highly debatable. This was also done exactly after the cold blooded murder of polio vaccination drive field workers today on various location across the country. It is not known with certainty who is behind this at this point in time, however pseudo liberals and intellectuals of our country have already figured it out that who ever is behind this (heinous and highly condemnable act) is definitely is a local, perhaps affiliated with organizations like TTP etc... organizations whose actual affiliation are themselves questionable...
Just to avail the opportunity, we would like to point out that the official narrative that this act has actually critically hampered the anti-polio vaccination drive, is yet also questionable. The readers are requested to browse the headlines of various international news sources (see below) which appeared a few months back regarding the act of CIA to sabotage the actual polio vaccination drive. All across, this act of CIA was condemned and was declared fatal for the UN's program to end polio across the globe. It is quite possible that vaccination program carried out at this point in time across the country is something else, particularly after the revelation that CIA has already done so in an attempt to locate OBL in Abbottabad and other locations across the country.
Now this is an important side of the story, which also needs to be brought into to complete the picture, as otherwise the drawing misdirected conclusions from this episode would become inevitable.
Check it out...
Polio vaccination - Fake drive may harm real one: ISLAMABAD, July 15: A ruse that American CIA reportedly played to get DNA samples of Osama bin Laden is feared to play havoc with the prime minister`s special polio vaccination programme, Dawn has learnt. More... http://dawn.com/2011/07/16/.../
CIA Organized Fake Vaccinations To Obtain Osama Bin Laden's Family DNA: Guardian: The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader's family, a Guardian investigation has found. More... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/11/.../
CIA's Fake Vaccination Campaign to Find Osama Bin Laden Raises Public-Health Fears: The story, which first appeared in The Guardian on Monday, alleges that the CIA sent vaccinators into the Pakistani city of Abbottabad in the months before the raid by US special forces that killed Osama bin Laden. The vaccination campaign, for hepatitis B, went door-to-door, with the hopes of gathering DNA from one of bin Laden's children to verify the location of his compound. A nurse reportedly entered the compound with an electronic device, though it is unclear whether DNA was gathered, or whether the device remained behind. Marie Harf, a CIA spokeswoman, declined to comment on the alleged plot. More... http://www.scientificamerican.com/.../
Bin Laden raid harms Pakistan polio fight: "Among other factors, international public health officials point to the distrust of vaccines and immunization campaigns as contributing to the lack of progress in eradicating the disease in Pakistan... This distrust is only increasing in light of reports about the CIA campaign". More... http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/06/.../
C.I.A. Vaccine Ruse May Have Harmed the War on Polio: In Pakistan, where polio has never been eliminated, the C.I.A.’s decision to send a vaccination team into the Bin Laden compound to gather information and DNA samples clearly hurt the national polio drive. The question is: How badly? After the ruse by Dr. Shakil Afridi was revealed by a British newspaper a year ago, angry villagers, especially in the lawless tribal areas on the Afghan border, chased off legitimate vaccinators, accusing them of being spies. More... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/.../
Vaccines, the CIA, and how the War on Terror helped spread polio in Nigeria: How a polio vaccination in Nigeria collapsed in the face of anti-Western sentiment and conspiracy theories, and why using a vaccine drive to hunt Bin Laden may not have been the smartest idea ever conceived by the CIA's strategists. More... http://www.guardian.co.uk/.../
American NGOs assail CIA over fake polio drive: ISLAMABAD: An alliance of about 200 US-based NGOs, many of them working in humanitarian operations in Pakistan, has expressed deep concern over a vaccination campaign carried out in Abbottabad last year by the Central Intelligence Agency and expressed fear that the action may jeopardise the lives of aid workers in the country. More... http://dawn.com/2012/03/02/.../
The CIA's fake vaccination drive has damaged the battle against polio: Calls for an emergency response to polio are not unrelated to the news that Shakil Afridi has been convicted for his part in the CIA plot. More... http://www.guardian.co.uk/.../
Yes, vaccinations are a CIA plot: All over the world, poor people resist vaccination campaigns in the belief that they are part of a plot by powerful authorities to take advantage of them. The CIA operation in Pakistan turns these fears from crazy conspiracy theories into accurate and rational beliefs. But what's really tragic is that Pakistan happens to be at the epicenter of a crucial ongoing vaccination programme. More... http://www.economist.com/blogs/.../
Acknowledgements: Thanks @Khalidkhan787 for sharing the links
Follow @javaidomar
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