Suspected militants kill police officer assigned to guard polio team as nationwide campaign begins

Through the WHO, people had been vaccinated for many years in the region. The big difference in this case was that the CIA was running this operation. And importantly — it was fake. The people didn’t receive any benefit from the process and perceived that they had received the hep b vaccine. From the article: >> The hepatitis B vaccine is usually given in three doses, the second a month after the first. But in April, ***instead of administering the second dose in Nawa Sher, the doctor returned to Abbottabad and moved the nurses on to Bilal Town, the suburb where Bin Laden lived.*** It’s been noted [that vaccine skepticism in that part of the word has spiked since the Bin Laden operation.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_in_Pakistan)

If I found out the US government was tracking people by taking their DNA after polio vaccines I'd be pretty f****** upset at the deception 

I would still think of it as a massive violation of trust, and would cause any other vaccination drive to come afterward to be looked at with suspicion, if they even believed it would be a vaccine at all.

Yes but the people who received the vaccines were baited into sharing their DNA and inadvertently pin pointing Bin Laden to the US, who then killed him. They were hiding him, so wouldn’t want to do that, hence being tricked into it. They probably couldn’t care less about the few dollars saved on the vaccine in hindsight

They were trusting them idiot how do you think CIA collected enough samples

i dunno

Fair. The article doesn’t really mention whether they’re medical professionals or not.

Simping for the CIA and Uncle Sam this hard is weird. That’s the same CIA that experimented on US citizens you know 😂

your missing the point. Regardless of *Pakistan is good/bad* running a covert op where you pretend to be an *NGO worker that just wants to make the world a better place* poisons the well for the real NGO workers that want to make the world a better place (e.g. by eradicating polio).

America buying our idiotic politicans in why i could care less about your people dying in school shootings. Enjoy

Pakistan has been an active state sponsor of terrorism, an active supporter of the Taliban and has generally fomented Islamic extremist governments in central Asia stemming back decades. I am not running away from what American governments have done in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, etc. stemming back to Mosaddegh, the Afghan-Soviet conflict, etc. We bear responsibility. ...but let us not pretend that these things happened in a vacuum. Let us not pretend that the governments of Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc. did not actively seek to destabilize their neighbors. Let us not pretend that Pakistan did not actively support the Taliban, going back to it's infancy. Let us not pretend that the combination of actions by these nations did not contribute directly to numerous attacks on Americans, culminating in 9/11. ...and let us not pretend like there was not a goal to drag America into the region, into a war and into collapse. Pakistan harbored bin Laden for nine years, since literally year one of the Afghan war. ...and many, many Americans feel that Pakistan did not pay the proper consequences for that. Many, many Americans at that time wanted to rain hell fire down upon Pakistan. I was not one of them, I am a relative moderate. ...but the pressure on Obama to act in the wake of the bin Laden raid was immense. Pakistan then complaining diplomatically about "invasion of their sovereignty" in reaction to the raid on bin Laden was met with a collective "f*** you" by Americans and I believe more than rightly so. Thank heavens Obama was President at the time. Thank heavens that did not go completely off the rails...it easily could have...especially in light of the diplomatic response by Pakistan. These were intentional acts. There has an appetite in America for truth and reconciliation. There has not been a concomitant appetite in Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc. Pakistan never even officially apologized to the United States for their support of the Taliban, hosting of bin Laden, etc. ...for many Americans we turned the other cheek to Pakistan and in response Pakistan has spit in our faces and refused to even accept any accountability. In doing so, Pakistan have frustrated truth and reconciliation and made moderates and progressives. ...now you have a crumbling pax Americana, a mad man as president and a world descending into a chaos. Again, we as Americans (many of us at least) are willing to accept culpability. ...but how can we have truth and reconciliation without all those involved in these conflicts being willing to do so?