Tell Me Again - Why Do They Hate Us?

Doctors Without Borders can give you another reason. Perhaps you saw the recent news that a UK Guardian investigation determined that the CIA ran a program in Pakistan trying to get DNA from the bin Laden children. I thought I posted about it, but it appears I left it in draft form. So, first, the post I drafted on 7/11 and had titled “Pakistani Pot Boiler” and then the Doctors Without Borders reaction.

As part of extensive preparations for the raid that killed Bin Laden in May, CIA agents recruited a senior Pakistani doctor to organise [a fake] vaccine drive in Abbottabad, even starting the "project" in a poorer part of town to make it look more authentic, according to Pakistani and US officials and local residents.

The doctor, Shakil Afridi, has since been arrested by the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) for co-operating with American intelligence agents.

UK Guardian

I hope he got a lot of money for his efforts.

DNA from any of the Bin Laden children in the compound could be compared with a sample from his sister, who died in Boston in 2010, to provide evidence that the family was present.

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Health visitors in the area were among the few people who had gained access to the Bin Laden compound in the past, administering polio drops to some of the children.

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In March health workers administered the vaccine in a poor neighbourhood on the edge of Abbottabad called Nawa Sher. The hepatitis B vaccine is usually given in three doses, the second a month after the first. But in April, instead of administering the second dose in Nawa Sher, the doctor returned to Abbottabad and moved the nurses on to Bilal Town, the suburb where Bin Laden lived

So they didn’t care that they left these other people in the lurch.

And now, the Doctors Without Borders reaction:

Médecins Sans Frontières has lashed out at the CIA for using a fake vaccination programme as a cover to spy on [Osama bin Laden] Thursday, saying it threatened life-saving immunisation work around the world.

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The international medical aid charity said the ploy used by US intelligence, revealed this week in the Guardian, was a "grave manipulation of the medical act".

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On Thursday night, a senior US government official defended the practice, saying it had been intended as "an actual vaccination campaign conducted by real medical professionals". He said the team was supposed to deliver the full course of three vaccinations to those treated in Abbottabad.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added: "And it's not as if this kind of campaign is something the CIA runs every day." UK Guardian

Pick your jaw up off the floor.

"The risk is that vulnerable communities – anywhere – needing access to essential health services will understandably question the true motivation of medical workers and humanitarian aid," said Unni Karunakara, MSF's international president.

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"It is challenging enough for health agencies and humanitarian aid workers to gain access to, and the trust of, communities, especially populations already sceptical of the motives of any outside assistance," said MSF. "Deceptive use of medical care also endangers those who provide legitimate and essential health services."

Indeed, aside from the distrust engendered, there is the likelihood of health professionals already in country to be arrested, and the further likelihood that leaders of third world countries will not be willing to allow future medical professionals in due to the possibility of them being spies – which I’m sure was already a problem.

The impact of the fake vaccination drive may be keenly felt in Pakistan, where the public already sees an American conspiracy everywhere. Polio campaigns could be at particular risk, as Pakistan has the biggest polio problem in the world.

Win-Win for the CIA and the USA. Fewer future enemies.

A CIA spokesman, George Little, would only say: "Finding Osama Bin Laden is a major victory for the United States and Pakistan."

Which this monstrous plan contributed to in absolutely no way, you pathetic SOB.