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Cochise Great Old One Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Total posts: 1104 Location: Gwynedd, Wales Age: 58 Gender: Male |
 Posted: 07-10-2013 10:39 Post subject: Pakistan bombings |
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Astonishing. I'll leave it to others to comment.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24425441
| Quote: | Two people, one a police officer, have been killed by a bomb which went off near anti-polio campaigners in Pakistan, say police.
The blast struck a van near a hospital in Budh Bher suburb of the north-western city of Peshawar.
A death toll of six was given earlier but later corrected by police.
Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio remains endemic, due in part to militant resistance to polio mass vaccination campaigns.
Militants have attacked and killed health workers and banned immunisation teams from some areas, forcing hundreds of thousands of children to miss vaccinations.
The other person killed in Monday's attack was a member of a local "peace committee", who opposed the Taliban, and was riding in a van as part of the anti-polio campaign, said police officials.
At least 12 people are reported to have been injured. Reports said many were police, but an injured young girl was also pictured in images from the scene.
The team inside the van was supposed to be accompanying the health workers administering polio vaccines in order to protect them, reports said.
One of them, Rasheed Khan, told Reuters news agency: "I was with the polio team. As soon as we reached the front of the hospital... there was a blast right in front of the gate.
"We were around 12 or 13 people."
Police had earlier reported a higher toll but corrected this upon confirmation from medical sources.
A man carries a girl injured in a bomb blast to the Lady Reading Hospital for treatment in Peshawar on 7 October Pictures from the scene showed a young girl injured in the blast
The explosive device was reported to have been detonated remotely.
The Pakistani news website Dawn quoted police as saying another, bigger, bomb had been found in the vicinity of the first one and the bomb disposal squad called in to defuse it.
Pakistan's high commissioner to the UK, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, said the object of such attacks was to gain worldwide publicity "and make the world afraid of coming to Pakistan's assistance when we need... a lot of assistance".
A fake hepatitis vaccination campaign, run covertly by the CIA, helped to locate al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in 2011. He was then killed in an operation by US Navy Seals.
The Taliban accuse health workers of working as US spies and allege that the polio vaccine makes children sterile.
A rising tide of violence has hindered new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's overtures to end the militant insurgency through peace talks with the Taliban.
Peshawar has been particularly hard hit. In just over two weeks, it has suffered four attacks which between them left more than 150 people dead. |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 542 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 07-10-2013 19:21 Post subject: |
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Sow unto the wind.  |
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| Cochise Great Old One Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Total posts: 1104 Location: Gwynedd, Wales Age: 58 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 08-10-2013 10:31 Post subject: |
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It was the two sentences I've bolded that disturbed me. The arrogance of the US, the mediaevalism of the religious fanatics, the lack of conscience on both sides all summed up there.
The rest of the article of course describes the appalling consequences. |
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| hunck Yeti Joined: 13 Jul 2011 Total posts: 64 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 08-10-2013 17:52 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | A fake hepatitis vaccination campaign, run covertly by the CIA, helped to locate al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in 2011. |
Is this true and can anyone hazard a theory as to how it worked? Investigate everyone who doesn't show up? Sounds dubious. |
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| Cochise Great Old One Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Total posts: 1104 Location: Gwynedd, Wales Age: 58 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-10-2013 11:08 Post subject: |
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| hunck wrote: | | Quote: | | A fake hepatitis vaccination campaign, run covertly by the CIA, helped to locate al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in 2011. |
Is this true and can anyone hazard a theory as to how it worked? Investigate everyone who doesn't show up? Sounds dubious. |
Was reported by the BBC - I doubt they made it up, they aren't that far gone. |
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| Posted: 10-10-2013 08:57 Post subject: |
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| It seems perfectly reasonable. After all, it's not like anyone is going to avoid getting their shots just because of a silly conspiracy theory... |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 542 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
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| Quote: | | It was the two sentences I've bolded that disturbed me. |
That was what I was alluding to, it's all well and good coming up with clever 'tricks' like that but what did they think was going to happen next? |
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