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India-Pakistan
Doors for polio vaccines closed in Waziristan
2012-07-19
[Dawn] Pak rustics endorsed a Taliban ban on polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
vaccinations Wednesday, closing the door to the prospect of any child being vaccinated in North Wazoo as part of a nationwide campaign.

Officials had pinned their last hopes of inoculating children in the northwestern district on talks with rustics, which were successively delayed until Wednesday, the last day of the nationwide campaign.

"Polio vaccination will be banned until drone attacks are stopped," tribal elder Qadir Khan told a gathering of more than 200 elders and Islamic scholars in Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
, the main town of North Waziristan.

"Drones martyr so many children, while polio afflicts one or two out of hundreds of thousands," said tribal elder Maamoor Khan.
Posted by:Fred

#1  "Polio vaccination will be banned until drone attacks are stopped,"

Just like the "Don't move or the you-know-who gets it" scene from Blazing Saddles, only with turbans & AK-47s. But it's a fine line between funny and stupid.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-07-19 01:53  

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