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muriel_volestrangler

(101,271 posts)
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 10:32 AM Apr 2013

Pakistan police officer guarding polio workers killed

Source: BBC

A police officer who was escorting a polio vaccination team in Pakistan has been shot dead, officials say.

Another officer was wounded in the attack in Mardan district, the latest in a series of attempts on the lives of polio workers and their escort teams.

No group has claimed responsibility for the killing, but the Pakistan Taliban has threatened health workers before.
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The police officer was shot dead as he guarded a vaccination team which was inside a house giving polio drops. None of the health team were harmed.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22096638



Nothing says "complete fucking psychopaths" as much as killing people trying to eradicate a deadly disease.
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Pakistan police officer guarding polio workers killed (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Apr 2013 OP
Wait until the "It's an undercover CIA operation" posters arrive ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2013 #1
"Zero Dark Thirty" claimed that the CIA ran a similar operation in Pakistan. DetlefK Apr 2013 #2

DetlefK

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2. "Zero Dark Thirty" claimed that the CIA ran a similar operation in Pakistan.
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 10:40 AM
Apr 2013

The writers switched the name of the disease, but that's it.

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