Guardian: 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. Abbottabad health workers had previously had access to the OBL compound to give children polio drops and later took part in this project without knowing it was CIA-inspired. The doctor has since been arrested by Pak authorities. The CIA refused to comment, and the success of the "project" is unknown.
If more Pakistani children were immunized against polio, the operation was a success.
Separately, grain of salt time. This sounds like the kind of thing the that would bubble up from the paranoid muck of the Pakistan rumour mill or the black helicopter believers in the West. Good to know it's out there, though, regardless whether we ever have proof one way or another. |
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