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It is dishonest and dangerous to claim that NGOs are compromised without providing any proof. I've worked in that space, and it is critically important that aid
by dsl 10y ago
It is dishonest and dangerous to claim that NGOs are compromised without providing any proof. I've worked in that space, and it is critically important that aid workers are seen as politically neutral and with pure intentions.
As an example the Taliban was targeting NGOs in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region because they believed efforts to vaccinate against polio were in fact an attempt to poison Muslims. Dozens of doctors, nurses, and volunteers were killed because someone like you decided to start a baseless rumor.
Most first world intelligence agencies have policies against embedding spies in aid operations. When it became common knowledge we used a vaccination campaign to collect on UBL, many people resigned from the Agency.
- secfirstmd 10y agoYep, couldn't agree more. I wrote about one aspect of that specific case here: https://medium.com/@roryireland/latest-wikileaks-documents-irish-citizen-working-for-the-un-was-targeted-by-the-nsa-f345b73b73df#.sq30lwvrw https://medium.com/@roryireland/latest-wikileaks-documents-i...
- 67726e 10y ago> because they believed efforts to vaccinate against polio were in fact an attempt to poison Muslims Or more likely a terrorist organization in those countries started such rumors to turn public sentiment against the west. Oh, and then the USG used a vaccination program to attempt to track down terrorists, which played a role in the take-down of Osama Bin Laden. It's fair to say that there are compromised NGOs, based on the OBL incident alone.
- sprafa 10y agoMy current understanding is the vaccine doctor story was a cover for the fact that Bin Laden was brought in trough a walk-in. But that's Seymour Hersh' story so who knows.