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>"Polio still persists in Taliban-controlled regions, after the CIA ran a fake vaccination campaign to try to catch Osama bin Laden. Vaccination workers are now
by snakeyjake 3y ago
>"Polio still persists in Taliban-controlled regions, after the CIA ran a fake vaccination campaign to try to catch Osama bin Laden. Vaccination workers are now killed as potential spies."
The connection is bullshit. Afghanistan has a long and proud history of killing polio vaccination workers. Also, any other aid worker. Especially women.
https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/analysis-attacks-aid-challenge-afghan-reconstruction https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/analysis-attacks-ai... (2008)
I was in Afghanistan for over two years over two deployments. Outside of the cities Afghans:
1. Don't know who Osama Bin Laden is.
2. Don't know that he was killed.
3. Don't know that the CIA ran a (not fake, real) vaccination campaign to locate Bin Laden. Or what the CIA is for that matter, or what or who the US is.
4. Barely know that there is a central government, who runs it, or what city is the capital.
They only know their local clan and the immediate local leader.
They're not running around scared of CIA agents they are scared of all outsiders and any outsider who can provide relief or comfort that the local leader cannot instantly becomes the enemy of the local leader.
This is also true in Pakistan and several African nations.
- joshuaissac 3y ago> Don't know that the CIA ran a (not fake, real) vaccination campaign to locate Bin Laden. This Lancet editorial suggests that the vaccination campaign was fake: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)60900-4/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... This is the campaign that is usually referred to when people talk about the fake vaccination campaign to locate bin Laden, but it was conducted in Abottabad, Pakistan. Are you referring to a different campaign that was conducted in Afghanistan?
- lukan 3y agoHe is saying, there is not much difference between tribal people in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- whatshisface 3y agoI'm more than willing to believe what you say about the local leaders, but the article you linked says aid workers were being killed because the Taliban associated them with US military reconstruction and the Karzai government.
- snakeyjake 3y agoThe reason will always change and always be irrelevant. In the past (PRE CIA PROGRAM) in other countries it has been that the foreign aid workers have been assassinated because their program: * is a sterilization conspiracy * corrupts the young women hired and trained to locally administer the vaccines * was proselytizing and spying on the locals And I don't fault them for thinking any of that just look at the nutjobs in the west who ramble on about vaccines.
- Dylan16807 3y ago> (not fake, real) vaccination campaign It was a fake campaign because they gave one out of three doses and then left.
- fieryskiff17 3y ago[dead]
- dennis_jeeves2 3y agoLol to p0w3n3d's response. The reply link to his post has been disabled.