mommykink@lemmy.world to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoAnyone else remember that time the Obama administration sent the CIA to Pakistan under the guise of humitarian aide, only for the whole thing to be revealed as a massive DNA harvesting operation...publichealth.jhu.eduexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up16arrow-down1external-linkAnyone else remember that time the Obama administration sent the CIA to Pakistan under the guise of humitarian aide, only for the whole thing to be revealed as a massive DNA harvesting operation...publichealth.jhu.edumommykink@lemmy.world to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square3fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremommykink@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoNope :) There are no sources that I’ve found that say that the CIA’s sham healthcare operation was critical in finding bin Laden. The CIA was tipped off to bin Laden’s location by tracking his personal courier to his compound in Abbottabad. The vaccination ruse was an attempt to confirm that he was in the area, but never produced results (other than a 2/5 drop in childhood vaccinations in Pakistan the years following, of course)
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoWe are in full agreement that this was a bad idea from the start and it resulted in fallout from this was incredibly damaging to public health and trust in vaccine initiatives.
Nope :)
There are no sources that I’ve found that say that the CIA’s sham healthcare operation was critical in finding bin Laden.
The CIA was tipped off to bin Laden’s location by tracking his personal courier to his compound in Abbottabad. The vaccination ruse was an attempt to confirm that he was in the area, but never produced results (other than a 2/5 drop in childhood vaccinations in Pakistan the years following, of course)
We are in full agreement that this was a bad idea from the start and it resulted in fallout from this was incredibly damaging to public health and trust in vaccine initiatives.