Joerg from Berlin sent me this: "I do not know whether there were some US-news about the polio vaccination
campaign in Pakistan. But here in Germany, and also on Al-Jazeera, the media did
not cover this subject correctly. Here I found an article in the
"Hindu":
"Five members of the nationwide polio immunisation campaign were shot dead by unknown assailants in four separate incidents across the country on Tuesday. Three of the attacks took place in Karachi and the fourth in Peshawar, forcing the Sindh government to suspend the campaign. (...) The polio immunisation programme has over the past year-and-a-half come under severe strain owing to diktats issued by terrorists. In the tribal areas, the Taliban has banned the campaign, stating that the immunisation drops cannot be administered till drone attacks by the CIA continue. Also, according to them, the immunisation programme was a front for spying on people, a narrative that gained currency after it became evident that the CIA had used a health campaign to establish the presence of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad."
"Five members of the nationwide polio immunisation campaign were shot dead by unknown assailants in four separate incidents across the country on Tuesday. Three of the attacks took place in Karachi and the fourth in Peshawar, forcing the Sindh government to suspend the campaign. (...) The polio immunisation programme has over the past year-and-a-half come under severe strain owing to diktats issued by terrorists. In the tribal areas, the Taliban has banned the campaign, stating that the immunisation drops cannot be administered till drone attacks by the CIA continue. Also, according to them, the immunisation programme was a front for spying on people, a narrative that gained currency after it became evident that the CIA had used a health campaign to establish the presence of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad."
