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truth2power

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7. Here...I'll take the opportunity to remind everyone what the CIA did....
Mon Jul 8, 2013, 10:45 AM
Jul 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccinations-osama-bin-ladens-dna

CIA organised fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden's family DNA

The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader's family, a Guardian investigation has found.

As part of extensive preparations for the raid that killed Bin Laden in May, CIA agents recruited a senior Pakistani doctor to organise the vaccine drive in Abbottabad, even starting the "project" in a poorer part of town to make it look more authentic, according to Pakistani and US officials and local residents.

The doctor, Shakil Afridi, has since been arrested by the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) for co-operating with American intelligence agents.

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The blowback from this is that some health workers were attacked and murdered.

Pakistan is one of three countries where Polio is still endemic. So...how many children will contract polio because of the CIA's execrable machinations?

Oh, I forgot...USA! USA!

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Spoke the McRaven: "Nevermore." Berlum Jul 2013 #1
Bullshit. blackspade Jul 2013 #2
Hiding the phony vaccination program? formercia Jul 2013 #3
I forgot about that! bananas Jul 2013 #4
Here...I'll take the opportunity to remind everyone what the CIA did.... truth2power Jul 2013 #7
McRaven gave the order -- that's interesting starroute Jul 2013 #5
Which pretty much proves what we were told about the operation is all bullshit. Arctic Dave Jul 2013 #6
Or start musing about how bin Laden was a CIA asset, back in the day... truth2power Jul 2013 #8
"another Jessica Lynch story" geek tragedy Jul 2013 #9
Did you run out of this? Arctic Dave Jul 2013 #12
You're accusing the Obama administration of a hoax re: bin Laden killing. geek tragedy Jul 2013 #13
Are you saying that there isn't a cover up going on? Arctic Dave Jul 2013 #14
Operational details of covert missions are typically classified. geek tragedy Jul 2013 #15
They are not typically wiped from DOD computers and shipped to the CIA, however. Romulus Quirinus Jul 2013 #19
Given what happened with Snowden/Booz Allen, maybe not. geek tragedy Jul 2013 #20
Is it a violation of the law, as the article implies? nt Romulus Quirinus Jul 2013 #21
I have no idea--I'm not a specialist in that kind of law. geek tragedy Jul 2013 #22
probably a good idea to keep real secret stuff away from DOD computers where Sunlei Jul 2013 #10
Some conspiracy theorists have alleged that... TRoN33 Jul 2013 #11
Some Say TimeToGo Jul 2013 #16
Really? And who do they think he is torturing? n/t A Simple Game Jul 2013 #17
Of course, 12 years ago nobody remembers James R Bath links Houses of Bush and bin Laden. Octafish Jul 2013 #18
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