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muriel_volestrangler

(101,265 posts)
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 07:53 AM Apr 2013

Pakistan health workers targeted over Bin Laden death

Later that month, Pakistani intelligence services arrested a provincial health department official, Dr Shakeel Afridi, whom they accused of leading the American CIA to Bin Laden by collecting DNA samples from his Abbottabad hideout under the cover of a fake vaccination campaign.
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Few believe any of the women had any idea about Dr Afridi's aims. There are also questions over whether Dr Afridi knew what he was looking for, or was just following instructions.

Last month, the court ordered their reinstatement.

But health authorities say they have not yet decided whether to appeal against the order or comply with it.
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"My life is in danger," she explained. "Our lives are in danger. They never used to kill health workers before Dr Afridi's campaign."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22181139


And that's the only health worker who dared speak to the BBC - and that had to be in secret.
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