"Car bomb kills 17 people in market in Pakistan" Associated Press, December 18, 2012
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Also on Monday, Taliban militants fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at an army convoy in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing three soldiers and wounding three others, said Nisar Ahmad, a local government official.
The soldiers were escorting a polio vaccination team outside the town of Lakki Marwat when the attack occurred, said Wazir Khan, a local resident.
The Taliban have spoken out against polio vaccination in recent months, claiming the health workers are acting as spies for the US and the vaccine itself causes harm.
You know, they wouldn't be beyond the realm of possibility in thinking either of those things.
In the southern city of Karachi, an unknown gunman shot and killed a Pakistani working with the World Health Organization’s anti- polio campaign, said police officer Qamar Ahmed....
You know, they wouldn't be beyond the realm of possibility in thinking either of those things.
In the southern city of Karachi, an unknown gunman shot and killed a Pakistani working with the World Health Organization’s anti- polio campaign, said police officer Qamar Ahmed....
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"Militants kill 5 women helping with polio vaccine in Pakistan" by Adil Jawad | Associated Press, December 19, 2012
KARACHI, Pakistan — Gunmen shot and killed five women working on UN-backed polio vaccination efforts in two Pakistani cities on Tuesday, officials said, a major setback for a campaign that international health officials consider vital to containing the crippling disease but which Taliban insurgents say is a cover for espionage.
Why would they be thinking that?
KARACHI, Pakistan — Gunmen shot and killed five women working on UN-backed polio vaccination efforts in two Pakistani cities on Tuesday, officials said, a major setback for a campaign that international health officials consider vital to containing the crippling disease but which Taliban insurgents say is a cover for espionage.
Why would they be thinking that?
Pakistan is one of three countries where polio is endemic. Militants, however, accuse health workers of acting as spies for the United States and say the vaccine makes children sterile.
I didn't used to believe such things long ago; however, after seeing all the nefarious things I've seen in six years of blogging, plus the plans laid for depopulation and such things by the globe-kicking globalists this is probably the truth. Maybe not all the teams, and some workers truly believe they are doing good -- and maybe some of them are. If you didn't treat some people no one would believe in your system. Or maybe it is about $omething el$e entirely.
Taliban commanders in the troubled northwest tribal region have also said vaccinations cannot go forward until the United States stops drone strikes in the country.
Well, that's a DOA proposal.
Insurgent opposition to the campaign grew last year after it was revealed that a Pakistani doctor ran a fake vaccination program to help the CIA track down Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who was hiding in the town of Abbottabad in the northwest.
Related: CIA Pokes Around in Pakistan
Okay, that's a shit story, so what are they really doing there?
The Taliban have targeted previous antipolio campaigns, but this has been a particularly deadly week.
The government is in the middle of a three-day vaccination drive targeting high risk areas of the country as part of an effort to immunize millions of children under the age of five.
‘‘Such attacks deprive Pakistan’s most vulnerable populations — especially children — of basic life-saving health interventions,’’ said a statement jointly released by the government and the UN. ‘‘We call on the leaders of the affected communities and everyone concerned to do their utmost to protect health workers and create a secure environment so that we can meet the health needs of the children of Pakistan.’’
The women who were killed Tuesday — three of whom were teenagers — were all shot in the head at close range.
Four of them were gunned down in the southern port city of Karachi, and the fifth in a village outside the northwest city of Peshawar. Two men who were working alongside the women were critically wounded in Karachi.
The attacks in Karachi were well-coordinated and occurred within 15 minutes in three areas of the city that are far apart, said police spokesman Imran Shoukat.
That screams intelligence agency operation, it really does.
In each case, the gunmen used 9-millimeter pistols.
Two of the women were killed while they were in a house giving children polio drops, said Shoukat. The other two were traveling between houses when they were attacked, he said.
On Monday another person working on the antipolio campaign, a male volunteer, was gunned down in Karachi.
Taliban militants also killed three soldiers in an ambush of an army convoy escorting a vaccination team in the northwest.
Related: Executing Pakistan's Police Force
Officials in Karachi responded to the attacks by suspending the vaccination campaign in the city, said Sagheer Ahmed, the health minister for surrounding Sindh Province. The campaign started on Monday and was supposed to run through Wednesday, he said.
Immunization was suspended in Karachi in July as well after a local volunteer was shot to death and two UN staff were wounded.
There were conflicting reports about whether the campaign was temporarily suspended in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, where the fifth woman was killed Tuesday.
The statement released by the government and the UN said the drive was halted in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
But Janbaz Afridi, a senior health official in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said he had not received any suspension orders and planned to continue the campaign on Wednesday.
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"UN suspends polio drive in Pakistan after killings" by Jamal Khan | Associated Press, December 20, 2012
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The United Nations suspended its polio vaccination drive in Pakistan Wednesday after eight people involved in the effort were shot dead in the past two days, a UN official said.
The suspension was a serious blow to the drive to bring an end to the scourge of polio in Pakistan, one of only three countries where the crippling disease still survives.
On Wednesday, gunmen shot at a woman working on the campaign in northwest Pakistan, killing her and her driver, one of five attacks during the day on polio workers. A male polio immunization worker was critically wounded in one of the shootings.
This week, six other people have been killed who were working on the immunization program, which has been jointly conducted with the Pakistani government. No one has claimed responsibility, but some Islamic extremists charge that the program is a cover for espionage.
At the UN, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the killing as ‘‘cruel, senseless. and inexcusable.’’ He said the eight workers were among thousands across Pakistan ‘‘working selflessly to achieve the historic goal of polio eradication.’’
Sarah Crowe, spokeswoman for UNICEF, said the vaccination program has been suspended everywhere in Pakistan until an investigation by the Pakistani government is completed.
‘‘This is undoubtedly a tragic setback, but the campaign to eradicate polio will and must continue,’’ she said.
Some provincial governments in Pakistan continued to immunize children, independent of the UN drive.
Prevention efforts have managed to reduce the number of cases in Pakistan by around 70 percent this year compared to 2011, but the recent violence threatens to reverse that progress.
Suspicion for the attacks has fallen on the Pakistani Taliban because of their virulent opposition to the polio campaign, but the group’s spokesman, Ahsanullah Ahsan, denied responsibility.
Interesting. Suspicion and insinuation carries the day in my paper.
Police say they have killed two militant suspects and arrested a dozen others in connection to the attacks but did not say whether they were Taliban.
So much contained in such a vague sentence. If I'm reading my mind-manipulating intelligence operation correctly it looks as if the Pakistanis busted an assassination squad.
Militants accuse health workers of acting as spies for the United States and claim the vaccine makes children sterile. Taliban commanders in the troubled northwest tribal region have also said vaccinations cannot go forward until the United States stops drone strikes in the country.
Insurgent opposition to the campaign grew last year after it was revealed that a Pakistani doctor ran a fake vaccination program to help the CIA track down and kill Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, who was hiding in the town of Abbottabad in the country’s northwest.
Yeah, we all know they were poking around there.
The number of attacks this week on polio workers is unprecedented. They came as the government started a three-day vaccination drive Monday targeting high risk areas of the country, part of an effort to immunize millions of children under the age of five.
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And once they picked up again....
"2 aid workers, 5 teachers shot dead in Pakistan; Gunmen may have targeted antipolio efforts" by Rebecca Santana and Zarar Khan | Associated Press, January 02, 2013
"2 aid workers, 5 teachers shot dead in Pakistan; Gunmen may have targeted antipolio efforts" by Rebecca Santana and Zarar Khan | Associated Press, January 02, 2013
ISLAMABAD — Gunmen on motorcycles sprayed a van carrying employees from a community center with bullets Tuesday, killing five female teachers and two aid workers, but sparing a child they took out of the vehicle before opening fire.
They stopped to take the baby out first?
The director of the group that the seven worked for said he suspects it may have been the latest attack targeting antipolio efforts in Pakistan. Some militants oppose the vaccination campaigns, accusing health workers of acting as spies for the United States and alleging the vaccine is intended to make Muslim children sterile.
They stopped to take the baby out first?
The director of the group that the seven worked for said he suspects it may have been the latest attack targeting antipolio efforts in Pakistan. Some militants oppose the vaccination campaigns, accusing health workers of acting as spies for the United States and alleging the vaccine is intended to make Muslim children sterile.
Last month, nine people working on an antipolio vaccination campaign were shot and killed. Four of those shootings were in the northwest where Tuesday’s attack took place. The attack was another reminder of the risks to women educators and aid workers from Islamic militants who oppose their work. It was in the same conservative province where militants shot and seriously wounded 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai, an outspoken young activist for girls’ education, in October.
I know I should be believing my distorting and deceiving agenda-pushing media on all this, but....
Waving the women card is usually the last, desperate measure I see in my war paper to advance the agenda.
Meanwhile, measles cases surged in Pakistan in 2012, and hundreds of children died from the disease, an international health body said Tuesday. The World Health Organization did not give a reason for the increase in deaths, but a provincial health official in Sindh said the disease hit areas where poor families did not vaccinate their children....
I know I should be believing my distorting and deceiving agenda-pushing media on all this, but....
Waving the women card is usually the last, desperate measure I see in my war paper to advance the agenda.
Meanwhile, measles cases surged in Pakistan in 2012, and hundreds of children died from the disease, an international health body said Tuesday. The World Health Organization did not give a reason for the increase in deaths, but a provincial health official in Sindh said the disease hit areas where poor families did not vaccinate their children....
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest shootings....
And that, dear readers, is the hallmark of intelligence agency operations.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, formerly called the Northwest Frontier Province, borders the tribal areas of Pakistan along the frontier with Afghanistan to the west. Militant groups such as the Taliban have used the tribal areas as a stronghold from which to wage war both in Afghanistan and against the Pakistani government....
And that, dear readers, is the hallmark of intelligence agency operations.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, formerly called the Northwest Frontier Province, borders the tribal areas of Pakistan along the frontier with Afghanistan to the west. Militant groups such as the Taliban have used the tribal areas as a stronghold from which to wage war both in Afghanistan and against the Pakistani government....
In 2007, the Taliban led by Maulana Fazlullah took over the scenic Swat Valley, marking the height of their strength there. The Pakistani military later pushed the militant group from the valley, but the Taliban have repeatedly tried to reassert itself....
Swabi Police Chief Abdur Rasheed said four gunmen on two motorcycles fled the scene and have not been apprehended.
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"HEALTH WORKERS BURIED -- Hundreds of villagers in northwest Pakistan attended the burial on Wednesday of five female teachers and two health workers who were slain a day earlier by militants in what possibly was the latest in a series of attacks targeting antipolio efforts in Pakistan. The seven worked at a clinic in Swabi that vaccinated children against polio. Some militants say the shots can lead to sterility (Boston Globe January 3 2013)."
Judging from that photograph in my print paper I'm wondering if it is "militants" at all. Did everybody from all the villages show up, and is that why all I received was a photograph that didn't make the web version?
"Polio workers targeted in Pakistan" by Riaz Khan | Associated Press, January 30, 2013
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a police officer protecting polio workers during a UN-backed vaccination campaign in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, the police said.
The attack took place as dozens of polio workers — including several women — were going door to door to vaccinate children in Gullu Dheri village of Swabi district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said senior police officer Izhar Shah....
‘‘The polio workers were terrified and immediately went back to their homes after the attack,’’ Shah told The Associated Press. ‘‘The antipolio drive in that village has been suspended.’’
Some Islamic militants oppose the vaccination campaign, accusing health workers of acting as spies for the United States and saying the polio vaccine is intended to make Muslim children sterile. Pakistan is one of the few remaining places where polio is still rampant.
In the northwest, a man wounded a polio worker with an ax.
The attacks occurred on the second day of a three-day campaign against polio that was launched by the provincial government. No one claimed responsibility for the shooting in Gullu Dheri, but suspicion fell on militants.
How many times they gonna give you that shot, huh?
Suspicion of vaccination campaigns heightened considerably after it became known that a Pakistani doctor helped in the US hunt for Osama bin Laden.
Yeah, well....
The physician, Shakil Afridi, ran a hepatitis vaccination campaign on behalf of the CIA to collect blood samples from bin Laden’s family at a compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan’s northwest, where US commandos killed the Al Qaeda leader in May 2011.
Okay, since bin Laden is known to have died way back in 2001 the question does become what were they doing there? Just setting something up so they could sell a ruse?
The samples were intended to help the United States match the family’s DNA to verify bin Laden’s presence in the garrison city.
In December, gunmen killed nine polio workers in similar attacks across Pakistan, prompting authorities to suspend the vaccination campaign in the troubled areas. The UN also suspended its field operations in December as a result of the attacks.
They have since resumed some activities, said Michael Coleman, a spokesman with UNICEF’s polio campaign.
The latest campaign in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was launched Monday to give oral drops to children who had missed it the first time around.
Pakistan is one of only three countries where the crippling disease is endemic. The virus usually infects children living in unsanitary conditions. It attacks the nerves and can kill or paralyze.
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"Two more polio workers killed in Pakistan" by Declan Walsh and Ismail Khan | New York Times, February 01, 2013
ISLAMABAD — A roadside bomb killed two polio workers in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, in the third such attack this week on workers struggling to immunize children against the crippling disease.
The explosion struck as the two workers, with a UN-backed campaign, were traveling by motorcycle through the Parachinar district, near the border with Afghanistan.
It was the first such attack on health workers in that area, said a senior local official speaking by phone on the condition of anonymity, offering further evidence that a Taliban-led campaign of violence and intimidation against polio workers is spreading across northwestern Pakistan.
Of course, there is no reason for me to doubt my Muslim-hating, agenda-pushing, war-promoting press that has lied to me when it presents such statements as God's honest truth.
Despite an internationally supported campaign to halt polio in Pakistan, infection rates have soared in the past year, coinciding with a wave of militant attacks.
Some militants accuse polio workers of using vaccination as a cover to spy on behalf of the United States — a claim that has been fueled by the revelation that the CIA used a vaccination drive as cover for the effort to find Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in early 2011.
The violence has badly affected vaccination efforts, which involve tens of thousands of health workers who repeatedly administer cheap oral vaccines to children under 5.
Nine polio workers were killed in a string of attacks across the country in December. On Tuesday, suspected militants fatally shot a police officer who had been escorting female polio workers in the Swabi District, 50 miles east of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
The shooting prompted officials to suspend the campaign in Swabi, but they pressed ahead in other parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the adjoining tribal belt. But it was not certain whether the latest killings were directly related to the polio campaign.
A local official said it was unclear whether the explosion targeted the two workers for their links to the polio campaign or for their religious affiliation.
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Judging from that photograph in my print paper I'm wondering if it is "militants" at all. Did everybody from all the villages show up, and is that why all I received was a photograph that didn't make the web version?
"Polio workers targeted in Pakistan" by Riaz Khan | Associated Press, January 30, 2013
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a police officer protecting polio workers during a UN-backed vaccination campaign in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, the police said.
The attack took place as dozens of polio workers — including several women — were going door to door to vaccinate children in Gullu Dheri village of Swabi district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said senior police officer Izhar Shah....
‘‘The polio workers were terrified and immediately went back to their homes after the attack,’’ Shah told The Associated Press. ‘‘The antipolio drive in that village has been suspended.’’
Some Islamic militants oppose the vaccination campaign, accusing health workers of acting as spies for the United States and saying the polio vaccine is intended to make Muslim children sterile. Pakistan is one of the few remaining places where polio is still rampant.
In the northwest, a man wounded a polio worker with an ax.
The attacks occurred on the second day of a three-day campaign against polio that was launched by the provincial government. No one claimed responsibility for the shooting in Gullu Dheri, but suspicion fell on militants.
How many times they gonna give you that shot, huh?
Suspicion of vaccination campaigns heightened considerably after it became known that a Pakistani doctor helped in the US hunt for Osama bin Laden.
Yeah, well....
The physician, Shakil Afridi, ran a hepatitis vaccination campaign on behalf of the CIA to collect blood samples from bin Laden’s family at a compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan’s northwest, where US commandos killed the Al Qaeda leader in May 2011.
Okay, since bin Laden is known to have died way back in 2001 the question does become what were they doing there? Just setting something up so they could sell a ruse?
The samples were intended to help the United States match the family’s DNA to verify bin Laden’s presence in the garrison city.
In December, gunmen killed nine polio workers in similar attacks across Pakistan, prompting authorities to suspend the vaccination campaign in the troubled areas. The UN also suspended its field operations in December as a result of the attacks.
They have since resumed some activities, said Michael Coleman, a spokesman with UNICEF’s polio campaign.
The latest campaign in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was launched Monday to give oral drops to children who had missed it the first time around.
Pakistan is one of only three countries where the crippling disease is endemic. The virus usually infects children living in unsanitary conditions. It attacks the nerves and can kill or paralyze.
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"Two more polio workers killed in Pakistan" by Declan Walsh and Ismail Khan | New York Times, February 01, 2013
ISLAMABAD — A roadside bomb killed two polio workers in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, in the third such attack this week on workers struggling to immunize children against the crippling disease.
The explosion struck as the two workers, with a UN-backed campaign, were traveling by motorcycle through the Parachinar district, near the border with Afghanistan.
It was the first such attack on health workers in that area, said a senior local official speaking by phone on the condition of anonymity, offering further evidence that a Taliban-led campaign of violence and intimidation against polio workers is spreading across northwestern Pakistan.
Of course, there is no reason for me to doubt my Muslim-hating, agenda-pushing, war-promoting press that has lied to me when it presents such statements as God's honest truth.
Despite an internationally supported campaign to halt polio in Pakistan, infection rates have soared in the past year, coinciding with a wave of militant attacks.
Some militants accuse polio workers of using vaccination as a cover to spy on behalf of the United States — a claim that has been fueled by the revelation that the CIA used a vaccination drive as cover for the effort to find Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in early 2011.
The violence has badly affected vaccination efforts, which involve tens of thousands of health workers who repeatedly administer cheap oral vaccines to children under 5.
Nine polio workers were killed in a string of attacks across the country in December. On Tuesday, suspected militants fatally shot a police officer who had been escorting female polio workers in the Swabi District, 50 miles east of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
The shooting prompted officials to suspend the campaign in Swabi, but they pressed ahead in other parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the adjoining tribal belt. But it was not certain whether the latest killings were directly related to the polio campaign.
A local official said it was unclear whether the explosion targeted the two workers for their links to the polio campaign or for their religious affiliation.
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US should avoid using health programs to gather intelligence
Oh, yeah.
Also see: Vaccine pioneer admits adding cancer-causing virus to Vaccine
That's the polio vaccine, yeah.
UNICEF Nigerian Polio Vaccine Contaminated with Sterilizing Agents Scientist Finds
How very, very interesting!
"Gunmen kill women in Nigeria giving polio vaccines" by SALISU RA BIU and JON GAMBRELL | Associated Press, February 09, 2013
KANO, Nigeria — Gunmen suspected of belonging to a radical Islamist sect shot and killed at least nine women who were taking part in a polio vaccination drive in northern Nigeria on Friday, highlighting the religious tensions surrounding the inoculation of children in one of the few nations where the disease still remains endemic.
The attack shocked residents of Kano, the largest city in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north, where women often go from house to house to carry out the vaccination drives as Muslim families feel more comfortable allowing them inside their homes than men. It also signaled a new wave of anger targeting immunization drives in Nigeria, where clerics once claimed the vaccines were part of a Western plot to sterilize young girls....
Well.... (see link above)???
Confusion surrounded the death toll....
Definitive death tolls for such attacks in Nigeria are difficult to obtain. Police and military forces in Nigeria routinely downplay such casualties, and families quickly bury the dead before the next sunset per local Muslim tradition.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland condemned the killing and injuring of health workers in Nigeria.
‘‘They were engaged in life-saving work, trying to vaccinate children,’’ she told reporters. ‘‘Any violence that prevents children from receiving basic life-saving vaccines is absolutely unacceptable wherever it happens.’’
While police said they had no immediate suspects for the attacks, witnesses said they believed that Boko Haram had been behind the shootings. Boko Haram, whose name means ‘‘Western education is sacrilege’’ in the Hausa language of the north, has been behind a series of violent attacks across northern Nigeria as part of its fight against the country’s weak central government....
Would that be the same Boko Harem that has MSM Abul-Qaqa as a spokesman?
Talk about a fart-in-your-face laugher of an insult. I'll bet the guys at "Al-CIA-Duh" central casting busted a gut over that one.
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Also see: AmeriKan MSM Admits African Immunizations Are Part of Infection Agenda
UPDATE:
"Nigerian reporters, cleric held after polio clinic killings; Their comments incited violence, police allege" by Salisu Rabiu | Associated Press, February 13, 2013
KANO, Nigeria — Police in northern Nigeria arrested and charged two radio journalists and a local cleric alleged to have sparked the killings of at least nine women gunned down while trying to administer polio vaccines, officials said Tuesday. Police asserted that their on-air comments about a vaccination campaign in the area inflamed the region and caused the attacks.
Can't tell the truth in Nigeria, 'eh?
The allegations against the journalists working for Wazobia FM show the continuing struggle over free speech in Nigeria, a nation that came out of military rule only in 1999 and where simply taking photographs on the street can get a person arrested. Though Nigeria has a rambunctious free press, threats and attacks against journalists remain common, and unsolved killings of reporters still haunt the country.
On Friday in Kano, the largest city in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north, gunmen in three-wheel taxis attacked women preparing to give the oral-drop vaccines to children, killing at least nine, police said. Witnesses later said they saw at least 12 dead from the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, though suspicion immediately fell on the sect known as Boko Haram, which is waging a campaign of guerrilla shootings and bombings across northern Nigeria.
Such a hallmark of an intelligence operation.
A few days before the killings, Wazobia FM aired a program in which presenters talked about how one of the station’s journalists had been attacked by local officials and had his equipment confiscated after coming upon a man who refused to allow his children to be vaccinated. The journalists and the cleric on the program apparently discussed the fears people have about the vaccine, which then spread through the city.
Kano state police commissioner Ibrahim Idris ordered the journalists and the cleric arrested immediately after Friday’s attack.
Initially, Idris said the journalists would face charges of ‘‘culpable homicide’’ over the polio workers’ deaths. Those charges can carry the death penalty. However, at an arraignment hearing Tuesday afternoon, prosecutors brought lesser charges that included conspiracy, inciting a disturbance, and obstruction of a public servant. Magistrate Ibrahim Bello ordered a follow-up hearing Thursday.
Onimisi Adaba, operation manager for Wazobia FM and its sister stations, later said that the radio group was ‘‘fully aware of the situation.’’
‘‘We are presently attending to the matter,’’ Adaba said. He declined to comment further.
There have long been suspicions about the polio vaccine in northern Nigeria, with people believing the drops would sterilize young girls.
And with good reason.
In 2003, a Kano physician heading the Supreme Council for Shariah in Nigeria said the vaccines were ‘‘corrupted and tainted by evildoers from America and their Western allies.’’ That led to hundreds of new infections in children across the north, where beggars on locally made wooden skateboards drag their withered legs back and forth in traffic, begging for alms. The 2003 disease outbreak in Nigeria eventually spread throughout the world, even causing infections in Indonesia.
Notice how my agenda-pushing paper glossed over the concerns about the tainted vaccines, and how they then went on to start screaming epidemic.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not for Nigerians or anyone else contracting polio. I just don't believe in the goodness of my agenda-pu$hing paper anymore.
Today, Nigeria is one of only three countries where polio remains endemic, the others being Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Oh, yeah.
Also see: Vaccine pioneer admits adding cancer-causing virus to Vaccine
That's the polio vaccine, yeah.
UNICEF Nigerian Polio Vaccine Contaminated with Sterilizing Agents Scientist Finds
How very, very interesting!
"Gunmen kill women in Nigeria giving polio vaccines" by SALISU RA BIU and JON GAMBRELL | Associated Press, February 09, 2013
KANO, Nigeria — Gunmen suspected of belonging to a radical Islamist sect shot and killed at least nine women who were taking part in a polio vaccination drive in northern Nigeria on Friday, highlighting the religious tensions surrounding the inoculation of children in one of the few nations where the disease still remains endemic.
The attack shocked residents of Kano, the largest city in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north, where women often go from house to house to carry out the vaccination drives as Muslim families feel more comfortable allowing them inside their homes than men. It also signaled a new wave of anger targeting immunization drives in Nigeria, where clerics once claimed the vaccines were part of a Western plot to sterilize young girls....
Well.... (see link above)???
Confusion surrounded the death toll....
Definitive death tolls for such attacks in Nigeria are difficult to obtain. Police and military forces in Nigeria routinely downplay such casualties, and families quickly bury the dead before the next sunset per local Muslim tradition.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland condemned the killing and injuring of health workers in Nigeria.
‘‘They were engaged in life-saving work, trying to vaccinate children,’’ she told reporters. ‘‘Any violence that prevents children from receiving basic life-saving vaccines is absolutely unacceptable wherever it happens.’’
While police said they had no immediate suspects for the attacks, witnesses said they believed that Boko Haram had been behind the shootings. Boko Haram, whose name means ‘‘Western education is sacrilege’’ in the Hausa language of the north, has been behind a series of violent attacks across northern Nigeria as part of its fight against the country’s weak central government....
Would that be the same Boko Harem that has MSM Abul-Qaqa as a spokesman?
Talk about a fart-in-your-face laugher of an insult. I'll bet the guys at "Al-CIA-Duh" central casting busted a gut over that one.
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Also see: AmeriKan MSM Admits African Immunizations Are Part of Infection Agenda
UPDATE:
"Nigerian reporters, cleric held after polio clinic killings; Their comments incited violence, police allege" by Salisu Rabiu | Associated Press, February 13, 2013
KANO, Nigeria — Police in northern Nigeria arrested and charged two radio journalists and a local cleric alleged to have sparked the killings of at least nine women gunned down while trying to administer polio vaccines, officials said Tuesday. Police asserted that their on-air comments about a vaccination campaign in the area inflamed the region and caused the attacks.
Can't tell the truth in Nigeria, 'eh?
The allegations against the journalists working for Wazobia FM show the continuing struggle over free speech in Nigeria, a nation that came out of military rule only in 1999 and where simply taking photographs on the street can get a person arrested. Though Nigeria has a rambunctious free press, threats and attacks against journalists remain common, and unsolved killings of reporters still haunt the country.
On Friday in Kano, the largest city in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north, gunmen in three-wheel taxis attacked women preparing to give the oral-drop vaccines to children, killing at least nine, police said. Witnesses later said they saw at least 12 dead from the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, though suspicion immediately fell on the sect known as Boko Haram, which is waging a campaign of guerrilla shootings and bombings across northern Nigeria.
Such a hallmark of an intelligence operation.
A few days before the killings, Wazobia FM aired a program in which presenters talked about how one of the station’s journalists had been attacked by local officials and had his equipment confiscated after coming upon a man who refused to allow his children to be vaccinated. The journalists and the cleric on the program apparently discussed the fears people have about the vaccine, which then spread through the city.
Kano state police commissioner Ibrahim Idris ordered the journalists and the cleric arrested immediately after Friday’s attack.
Initially, Idris said the journalists would face charges of ‘‘culpable homicide’’ over the polio workers’ deaths. Those charges can carry the death penalty. However, at an arraignment hearing Tuesday afternoon, prosecutors brought lesser charges that included conspiracy, inciting a disturbance, and obstruction of a public servant. Magistrate Ibrahim Bello ordered a follow-up hearing Thursday.
Onimisi Adaba, operation manager for Wazobia FM and its sister stations, later said that the radio group was ‘‘fully aware of the situation.’’
‘‘We are presently attending to the matter,’’ Adaba said. He declined to comment further.
There have long been suspicions about the polio vaccine in northern Nigeria, with people believing the drops would sterilize young girls.
And with good reason.
In 2003, a Kano physician heading the Supreme Council for Shariah in Nigeria said the vaccines were ‘‘corrupted and tainted by evildoers from America and their Western allies.’’ That led to hundreds of new infections in children across the north, where beggars on locally made wooden skateboards drag their withered legs back and forth in traffic, begging for alms. The 2003 disease outbreak in Nigeria eventually spread throughout the world, even causing infections in Indonesia.
Notice how my agenda-pushing paper glossed over the concerns about the tainted vaccines, and how they then went on to start screaming epidemic.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not for Nigerians or anyone else contracting polio. I just don't believe in the goodness of my agenda-pu$hing paper anymore.
Today, Nigeria is one of only three countries where polio remains endemic, the others being Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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