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Amid all this collective celebration, I would like to point out one excerpt (that nobody seems to have mentioned here) that leaves me disgusted: "The C.I.A. in
by arjunnarayan 15y ago
Amid all this collective celebration, I would like to point out one excerpt (that nobody seems to have mentioned here) that leaves me disgusted:
"The C.I.A. intensified its intelligence-collection efforts, and, according to a recent report in the Guardian, a physician working for the agency conducted an immunization drive in Abbottabad, in the hope of acquiring DNA samples from bin Laden’s children. (No one in the compound ultimately received any immunizations.)"
From a global health policy perspective, doctors and campaigners in third world countries already face huge uphill battles in education and decreasing fears about vaccinations. It probably isn't amiss to say that in helping fuel the FUD about vaccinations being a CIA plot, more people have been killed due to these fears than in acts of terrorism in the last decade.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-fallout-from-the-cias-vaccination-ploy-in-pakistan/2011/07/15/gIQASu12GI_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-fallout-from-the-...
- yid 15y agoThere's a huge difference between vaccinations themselves being a CIA plot, and a vaccination drive being a CIA plot. I have no problem with the latter.
- CamperBob 15y agoThe people who need the vaccinations won't see the difference. That little detail would have been better kept under wraps. Nobody needed to know about it.
- Goladus 15y agoSlightly more important (which isn't saying much) is the difference between the vaccination drive being a CIA plot and the CIA exploiting its existence.