• Taliban now attacking Polio Vaccination Teams, killing two in the process
    29 replies, posted
[quote]Two people were killed and up to 20 more injured after Taliban militants used a bomb to target a team delivering polio vaccination drops to children in north-west Pakistan. In the latest of a series of assaults on volunteers, nurses and police officers involved in efforts to confront the country’s polio problem, the bomb was set off outside a health clinic on the outskirts of the city of Peshawar. A police officer and a member of a local anti-Taliban group were killed. The Taliban have repeatedly attacked vaccination workers, claiming the programme is part of a CIA-led plot to sterilise Muslims. Peshawar has been rocked by at least four major militant attacks in the last few weeks, which have targeted a church and a market. “Jews and the United States want to stamp out Islamic beliefs through these drops,” a spokesman for the Jundullah faction of the Taliban, Ahmed Marwat, told Reuters.[/quote] [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/taliban-renews-assault-on-pakistani-polio-vaccination-teams-killing-two-8864430.html[/url] How much of a dick do you have to be
Oh well I guess most of the Taliban's future children and such will be cripples for life.
[QUOTE]claiming the programme is part of a CIA-led plot to sterilise Muslims. [/QUOTE] Not having Polio helps you breed.
"Jews and the United States want to stamp out Islamic beliefs through these drops" sounds like shit facepunch would say sarcasticly, to bad these people are serious.
Well polio and taliban are equally wanted.
Maybe the polio paralyzes the Taliban
part of the fault lies with the CIA [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/health/cia-vaccine-ruse-in-pakistan-may-have-harmed-polio-fight.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0[/url] not that the taliban really needed much excuse to kill people but, its still fucked up on the CIA part.
Well I hope the Taliban all die of polio than.
I hate this I think we need a new strategy, global "Mary J Mortars/Merry J Mortars" Filled with burning weed If they're all high as shit they'll be like "Dude let's just talk I just wanna go take a nap soon so let's make it quick ok"
[QUOTE=Wizards Court;42453952]part of the fault lies with the CIA [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/health/cia-vaccine-ruse-in-pakistan-may-have-harmed-polio-fight.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0[/url] not that the taliban really needed much excuse to kill people but, its still fucked up on the CIA part.[/QUOTE] The CIA needs to learn about the term "Blowback". I'm surprised that they haven't by now.
I hope the taliban gets polio. That'd be some poetic justice.
[QUOTE=booster;42454004]I hope the taliban gets polio. That'd be some poetic justice.[/QUOTE] Let's use polio on the taliban, they will either lose their islamic beliefs or their lifes.
Oh look. Muslims do it again.
islamic extremist actually agree with the leftest democrat antivaxers....hope they like polio assholes. [editline]8th October 2013[/editline] its people like this that are holding man kind back
[QUOTE=Str4t0s;42454059]Oh look. Muslims do it again.[/QUOTE] Oh not you again
[QUOTE=RG4ORDR;42453896]Oh well I guess most of the Taliban's future children and such will be cripples for life.[/QUOTE] not really. Polio is 99.9% dead. Two diseases have been eradicated from Earth (smallpox and rinderpest) and polio and another disease called Guinea worm disease are massively close to that same goal. so there's very very few cases left of polio, it's just that total eradication has been compared to squeezing the last bit of jell-o to liquid 'cause it's so persistent.
[QUOTE=Str4t0s;42454059]Oh look. Muslims do it again.[/QUOTE] Violent radical extremists fighting to impose political as well as religious laws upon their country Not, you know All Muslims everywhere
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;42454425]not really. Polio is 99.9% dead. Two diseases have been eradicated from Earth (smallpox and rinderpest) and polio and another disease called Guinea worm disease are massively close to that same goal. so there's very very few cases left of polio, it's just that total eradication has been compared to squeezing the last bit of jell-o to liquid 'cause it's so persistent.[/QUOTE] I don't think we can ever say that a disease is eradicated from Earth. It can always make a comeback.
[QUOTE=Sableye;42454084]islamic extremist actually agree with the leftest democrat antivaxers....hope they like polio assholes. [editline]8th October 2013[/editline] its people like this that are holding man kind back[/QUOTE] Since when are anti-vaccination activists leftists? That's pretty much mostly exclusive, with some outliers, to the right-wing with the Tea Party and conservative old people who don't know basic science. Also leftists can't be democrats and democrats can't be leftists, it's an oxymoron. [editline]8th October 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;42454459]I don't think we can ever say that a disease is eradicated from Earth. It can always make a comeback.[/QUOTE] When we say it's eradicated we mean that the things only exist in highly controlled labs. It could make a comeback but the chances of that are extremely rare.
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;42454459]I don't think we can ever say that a disease is eradicated from Earth. It can always make a comeback.[/QUOTE] They're very strict about these things. It takes several years of zero cases reported before the WHO, etc will declare that it's eradicated. Polio, smallpox, guinea worm disease and the candidates for eradication, in general, have no non-human reservoirs so if nobody catches the disease then you pretty much end it.
[QUOTE=Str4t0s;42454059]Oh look. Muslims do it again.[/QUOTE] man you really don't like Muslims do you
The fact that they're going to use Islam as a valid reasonable is laughable. They're actually very bloody scared. They've been very paranoid about these vaccination drives since the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakil_Afridi"]US used them to gather information about Osama's whereabouts[/URL]. This has turned out to create a lot of bad fallout for the doctors in these regions who are there only to serve a humanitarian purpose. Ever since the US did that covert operation in Abbottabad, the Taliban and their sister organizations in the area are quite skittish and have viewed the doctors and their vaccination drives as a possible front for further intelligence gathering, which isn't necessarily the case. For the Taliban, right now it's more of a "better safe than sorry" tactic - get rid of all the doctors, be potentially free of any future "Abbottabad"s. As with everything, the Taliban can't exactly expose their paranoia and come of as scared and weak to their supporters, so they choose to call it "Un-Islamic". It's also the reason why they backpedaled so fast they may as well have been making a beeping noise when the Malala case blew wide open worldwide. The fact remains that ever since the Abbottabad raid, they've been actually terrified of how far the US will go to take them down and in a way, that's a good thing.
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;42454459]I don't think we can ever say that a disease is eradicated from Earth. It can always make a comeback.[/QUOTE] The only way smallpox and rinderpest are coming back is if someone MAJORLY fucks up at a max level biohazard lab somewhere.
My uncle's a doctor up there, I hope he's alright
[QUOTE=mchapra;42454892]My uncle's a doctor up there, I hope he's alright[/QUOTE] Usually doctors get some sort of bodyguard detail on their overseas humanitarian work not just for protection but also for crowd control. He should be okay for the most part but if he hasn't already, depending on his nationality, it's of vital importance that he register with his nearest embassy/consulate and keep that number on speed dial at all times for the extent of his visit.
[QUOTE=snookypookums;42455003]Usually doctors get some sort of bodyguard detail on their overseas humanitarian work not just for protection but also for crowd control. He should be okay for the most part but if he hasn't already, depending on his nationality, it's of vital importance that he register with his nearest embassy/consulate and keep that number on speed dial at all times for the extent of his visit.[/QUOTE] It's not really overseas since he lives in pakistan. That's what worries me really.
[QUOTE=Str4t0s;42454059]Oh look. Muslims do it again.[/QUOTE] You've never met a Muslim person in your life, have you?
[QUOTE=mchapra;42455127]It's not really overseas since he lives in pakistan. That's what worries me really.[/QUOTE] If he's a Pakistani - I'd suggest he get the hell out of dodge until the heat goes down. Foreign doctors they like to keep alive for potential ransom situations, but the locals aren't as fortunate. For what it's worth, we have problems of a similar nature in the areas where Maoists are active so we deal with this to a certain extent too.
fine they can have polio then jeez
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.