CIA's Vaccine Ruse In Pakistan Carries Fallout -- L.A. Times
The phony campaign was aimed at helping find and kill Osama bin Laden, but the doctor involved now faces treason charges, and real immunization workers say Pakistanis don't trust them.
Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan — A phony vaccination campaign orchestrated by the CIA to help find and kill Osama bin Laden is undercutting Western-backed immunization drives against polio and other diseases, and now has the Pakistani doctor involved in the program possibly facing treason charges.
A Pakistani government commission investigating the U.S. raid that killed Bin Laden in May recommended late Thursday that treason charges be filed against Dr. Shakeel Afridi, who helped carry out the fake vaccination effort designed to obtain DNA evidence from the Al Qaeda leader's sprawling compound in Abbottabad.
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My Comment: It may have been a ruse .... but it worked perfectly. As for treason charges be filed against Dr. Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistani government should be giving this doctor a medal .... but .... Pakistan being Pakistan .... this case highlights once again that Pakistan's loyalties lie more with Bin Laden and his radical Islamic ideology than with the West.
If we should have any sympathy .... it will for the children who will not be immunized and who will (in some cases) end up suffering from diseases like polio.