Taliban to US: End drone strikes or we stop using your Polio vaccines... WTH??

[Anonemous]

ok...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/18/world/asia/pakistan-taliban-polio/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) --
A Taliban commander in northwest Pakistan has announced a ban on polio vaccines for children as long as the United States continues its campaign of drone strikes in the region, according to a statement by the Taliban.
"Polio drops will be banned in North Waziristan until the drones strikes are stopped," said the statement, released Saturday.
"Almost every resident of North Waziristan has become a mental patient because of the drone strikes, which are worse than polio," the statement continued. "On one hand, the U.S. spends millions of dollars to eliminate polio, while on the other hand it kills hundreds with the help of its slave, Pakistan."
Pakistan remains one of only three countries that have yet to eradicate polio.
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The country's polio campaign made headlines last year when a Pakistani doctor was linked to a CIA operation to verify Osama bin Laden's whereabouts with a door-to-door vaccination campaign in the town of Abbottabad, where the al Qaeda leader was hiding before he was killed.
U.S. officials have said the plan did not work, but aid groups and Pakistani health officials have said the CIA's alleged meddling with a vaccination campaign undermined Pakistan's efforts to eradicate polio.
Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur made the decision on the vaccination ban after consulting with other Taliban leaders, according to the statement.
Bahadur commands the faction of the Taliban based in North Waziristan, the district Washington believes is the main safe haven for the Haqqani network and other militant groups fueling the insurgency in Afghanistan.
It's not clear how Bahadur's decree will impact the polio eradication campaign in North Waziristan or in nearby districts, where he doesn't wield as much power.
It is widely believed that Bahadur is allied with the Haqqani network and provides shelter for the group in North Waziristan. The United States has pushed Pakistan to launch an offensive against the militant groups in North Waziristan, but Pakistani military officials have resisted, saying their troops are stretched too thin.
In April, U.S. President Barack Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser John Brennan acknowledged the use of U.S. drones.
"Yes, in full accordance with the law -- and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American lives -- the United States government conducts targeted strikes against specific al Qaeda terrorists, sometimes using remotely piloted aircraft, often referred to publicly as drones," Brennan said.

 

[Texashiker]

Well, the CIA did use a fake a vaccine campaign to gather DNA samples in the hunt for bin laden.

After being lied to several times, do the people have a reason to trust us?

 

[sixone]

Shouldn't be any surprise. These are people who hide behind women and children.

This is just a new way of doing so.

 

[Train]

"Think of theOUR children!"

 

[dud]

Well, the CIA did use a fake a vaccine campaign to gather DNA samples in the hunt for bin laden.

After being lied to several times, do the people have a reason to trust us?

This has little to do with fake vaccines. The Taliban are simply trying to hold the local children hostage ... in an attempt to stop the drone attacks. It shows how desperate they are getting.

 

[chowderhead]

Well, the CIA did use a fake a vaccine campaign to gather DNA samples in the hunt for bin laden.

After being lied to several times, do the people have a reason to trust us?

I am pretty sure the vaccines were real but the real reason was to collect DNA samples from the children in the compound. The reason to trust the UNICEF or the UN ... maybe so the children don't get debilitating polio. I don't think this will engender good well among the people there for Taliban.

 

[Texashiker]

This has little to do with fake vaccines. The Taliban are simply trying to hold the local children hostage ... in an attempt to stop the drone attacks. It shows how desperate they are getting.

I am pretty sure the vaccines were real but the real reason was to collect DNA samples from the children in the compound. The reason to trust the UNICEF or the UN ... maybe so the children don't get debilitating polio. I don't think this will engender good well among the people there for Taliban.

There are two sides to every story.

Offer free vaccines to get the taiban out of the hills, then bomb the crap out of them going to or from the clinic.

It is not above the U.S. to kill innocent women and children either.

If you thought your family was going to be killed on the way to a clinic, would you go?

It seems to me that the people are caught between a rock and a hard place. Go to the clinic, get exposed, get bombed. Or go without the vaccine?

 

[purbeast0]

There are two sides to every story.

Offer free vaccines to get the taiban out of the hills, then bomb the crap out of them going to or from the clinic.

It is not above the U.S. to kill innocent women and children either.

If you thought your family was going to be killed on the way to a clinic, would you go?

what about innocent men?

 

[SirStev0]

sigh.

 

[amdhunter]

what about innocent men?

I care more about the puppies myself.

 

[Pray To Jesus]

Lololol

 

[Printer Bandit]

i like this tactic.

 

[Jeffg010]

I would Bomb them twice as much and if they opened their mouth again I would double that amount.