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sister harb
What kind of connection there even is with drones and polio vaccanation?
that's exactly what the taliban are asking, though it's being skewed and mis-presented by the lamestream media.
they have noticed a relationship between the vaccination campaign and the drone murder frequencies.
and they have also clearly stated that they suspect the vaccination campaigns are being used as a cover to spy on the ground before sending in drones.
they are demanding the drone murders stop before they allow them in any more.
don't let the dajjal media fool you.
here's one where they dispersed some of the actual facts amongst a miryad of conjecture:
Leaflets distributed in South Waziristan on behalf of Mullah Nazir, the leader of the Federally Administered Tribal Agencies (Fata) accused health workers who administer anti-polio drops of being US spies.
"In the garb of these vaccination campaigns, the US and its allies are running their spying networks in Fata which has brought death and destruction on them in the form of drone strikes," the leaflet said.
Earlier this month, Hafiz Gul Bahadar, the leader of the Taliban in North Waziristan, made similar claims about polio vaccinations being used for spying and banned any further work until drone attacks end.
North and South Waziristan are where the vast bulk of US missile strikes by drone aircraft have taken place.
The leaflet raised the case of Shakil Afridi, the frontier doctor who ran a hepatitis vaccination campaign in Abbottabad as cover for a CIA effort to find intelligence about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.
Afridi, who has since been arrested and jailed by Pakistani authorities, provided important help in the hunt for the US's most wanted man, the former director of the CIA has said.
But humanitarian organisations have been outraged by the use of vaccination as a cover for spying, saying it has entrenched suspicions in the tribal areas about their work.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...?newsfeed=true
i would say the taliban have a valid point on this issue, the drone strikes are murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent people, while they are using the cover of saving a few dozen people from polio to commit these savage atrocities.