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India-Pakistan
CIA organised fake vaccinations to obtain DNA from OBL hideout
2011-07-12
Guardian: As part of extensive preparations for the raid that killed Bin Laden in May, CIA agents recruited a senior Pakistani doctor to organise the vaccine drive in Abbottabad, even starting the "project" in a poorer part of town to make it look more authentic. Abbottabad health workers had previously had access to the OBL compound to give children polio drops and later took part in this project without knowing it was CIA-inspired. The doctor has since been arrested by Pak authorities. The CIA refused to comment, and the success of the "project" is unknown.
If more Pakistani children were immunized against polio, the operation was a success.

Separately, grain of salt time. This sounds like the kind of thing the that would bubble up from the paranoid muck of the Pakistan rumour mill or the black helicopter believers in the West. Good to know it's out there, though, regardless whether we ever have proof one way or another.
Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418

#9  The pigeons were trained that when they pecked in a certain part of the screen ( the part that had the cross hairs centered on the target vessel, they were rewarded with food. so in a real mission, they would keep pecking for corn, causing the in flight corrections and soon the bomb would hit the boat. of course they were only good for one mission.
Posted by: USN,Ret.   2011-07-12 22:42  

#8  Pigeon-guided bombs? How would that work, devilstoenail?
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-07-12 19:33  

#7  Crazy? Competent? your talking about yourselves! You guys wanted to drop bats with bombs on japan, still not as crazy as actually suicide bombing an airplane. The brits had pigeon guided bombs, bet you didn't know that shizzle!
Posted by: devilstoenail   2011-07-12 18:35  

#6  If they were burning their own trash inside the compound they were unlikely to allow a strange doctor access. Bin Laden probably had his own doctor anyway with his health problems and all. This is nonsense.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2011-07-12 14:55  

#5  If they were the CIA would be more competent.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-07-12 11:29  

#4  Well, the Juice are behind the CIA, Steve.
Posted by: Spot   2011-07-12 07:44  

#3  The CIA? I always thought vaccination against easily preventable diseases was a Juice plot.
Posted by: SteveS   2011-07-12 01:46  

#2  This explains the hërbäl v1@grä in OBL's lair. The CIA shrunk his pee-pee.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165   2011-07-12 01:06  

#1  The CIA refused to comment, and the success of the "project" is unknown.

Unknown? He's dead, ain't he?
Posted by: tu3031   2011-07-12 00:30  

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