this is just so fucking insane and evil: One dead in latest shooting of polio workers in Pakistan

[cali]

Gunmen killed a female polio worker and injured another near the northwest city of Peshawar on Tuesday, the latest in a series of assaults on vaccination teams working to eradicate the disease in Pakistan.

The women were vaccinating children in Kaga Wala, a village perched on the edge of the country’s volatile tribal belt, when two men opened fire, said Shafeeullah Khan, a local police official. One of the workers was critically injured in the attack and was being treated for gunshot wounds at a Peshawar hospital.

No one claimed responsibility for the assault, but last year the Pakistani Taliban denounced polio vaccination drives as a guise for U.S. spying activity. At least a dozen polio workers have been killed in Pakistan since mid-December.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-two-polio-workers-shot-in-pakistan-20130528,0,7397224.story

[Enrique]

1. LA times is remiss

they write "... denounced polio vaccinaton drives as a guise for U.S. spying activity", without mentioning that there is a factual basis for this accusation. The CIA ran a phony vaccination program as part of their campaign to find bin Laden. All these phony scandals going around, that was a real one.

[greytdemocrat]

2. Get the workers out. n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. "There they were in a pile...a pile of little arms..."

[msanthrope]

4. Oh, wow...beat me to it!! That was my first thought. nt