When the CIA collected DNA from Pakistanis under pretense of looking for OBL
U.S. officials were stomping mad late last month when a tribal court in Peshawar sentenced Dr. Shakil Afridi to 33 years in prison because he had allegedly collaborated with the Central Intelligence Agency in zeroing in on the Bin Laden family’s compound in Abbottabad. CIA surveillance helped to capture bin Laden there in May 2011, but Afridi’s collusion with us may have resulted in far deadlier side affects than our super spies had ever planned for.
Afridi was used to set up a phony public immunization campaign in Abbottabad so he could collect DNA samples the CIA had hoped would confirm the location of bin Laden’s people. According to The New York Times, “American officials have said that although Dr. Afridi never gained DNA samples from the compound, his work aided the mission that led to Bin Laden’s death.” Well and good, but now Pakistanis believe every public health screening and vaccination program is a CIA-backed connivance, and they are staying away at the expense of decades of polio eradication efforts.
http:// original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2012/06/11/the-cia-and-polio-in-pakistan/