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December 19, 2012

9 Polio Workers Assassinated in Pakistan 
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At least nine medical workers have been killed in a series of attacks on
a polio vaccination effort in Pakistan. Three people were killed earlier
today near the city of Peshawar, one day after six workers, all female,
were killed in Peshawar and Karachi. The shootings are believed to be a
part of a militant campaign against polio eradication in response to the
CIA-backed fake vaccination program in Pakistan that helped locate Osama
bin Laden. Taliban warlords announced a ban on immunization efforts
earlier this year, calling them a cover for espionage. Pakistan is one
of three countries in the world where polio remains a large-scale risk.

 

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