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MMC
06-18-2012, 04:13 PM
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Abu Yahya al-Libi

A Taliban leader in Pakistan said that until the United States stops drone strikes—like the one that killed al-Qaida no. 2 Abu Yahya al-Libi earlier this month (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/al-libi-al-qaida-no-2-target-u-163347720.html)—it will ban polio vaccinations of Pakistani children in the region it controls.

"Polio drops will be banned in North Waziristan until the drones strikes are stopped," Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur said in a statement released Saturday and published Monday by CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/18/world/asia/pakistan-taliban-polio/index.html?hpt=hp_t2).

UNICEF had been hoping to launch a drive this week to vaccinate 161,000 children in the region. Bahadur said he consulted with leaders of the Taliban and al-Qaida and with Punjabi leaders before making the decision to ban the vaccinations.

But it's doubtful that the warning will affect U.S. drone strikes. The White House has increased its drone operations under President Barack Obama. The Pakistani government has objected to the drone strikes, saying they are "a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty.".....snip~

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/taliban-warns-u-drone-strikes-153252109.html
The Lookout (http://thepoliticalforums.com/blogs/lookout/) – 5 hrs ago<<<<<

Sure go ahead and stop those helping their people. Wanting the drone attacks to stop makes sense. But now taking out ones frustrations on their own children for something that others are doing. Well there is no making up for dumb and dumberer. :rollseyes:

Peter1469
06-18-2012, 04:17 PM
They may be onto something about being anti-vaccine!

Beevee
06-18-2012, 04:55 PM
I can't imagine why the US would care.

It'll be less Taliban recruits in about 13 years time, but they probably haven't thought of that yet.

MMC
06-18-2012, 05:12 PM
Is that a Diamond Earring he is sportin in his Left Ear? :laugh:

Peter1469
06-18-2012, 05:24 PM
I can't imagine why the US would care.

It'll be less Taliban recruits in about 13 years time, but they probably haven't thought of that yet.

Or not. And without autism.

Goldie Locks
06-18-2012, 05:37 PM
I can't imagine why the US would care.

It'll be less Taliban recruits in about 13 years time, but they probably haven't thought of that yet.


Hopefully they won't.

Goldie Locks
06-18-2012, 05:39 PM
Is that a Diamond Earring he is sportin in his Left Ear? :laugh:

QVC cubic zirconia

Goldie Locks
06-18-2012, 05:39 PM
Or not. And without autism.

You actually care whether the Taliban has either???

Peter1469
06-18-2012, 05:46 PM
You actually care whether the Taliban has either???

Well you got me there.

MMC
06-18-2012, 05:48 PM
QVC cubic zirconia

I thought the Chinese were mining that quartz over there? Don't tell me he snuck out there with a rock that big! :laugh:

waltky
07-29-2017, 09:15 PM
Jihadis causin' spread of polio in Syria...
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Campaign Underway to Stem Polio Outbreak in Syria's Deir Ezzor
July 28, 2017 — A United Nations-led polio immunization campaign to stem an outbreak of this crippling disease is under way in Syria's Deir Ezzor Governorate. The campaign, headed by the World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund, started on July 22.


The campaign got off to a good start. The World Health Organization reports that hundreds of vaccinators going door to door in this embattled Syrian city managed to inoculate nearly 60,000 children under the age of five on the first day. Security problems had delayed the start of the campaign in Deir Ezzor and continue to pose dangers for the health workers. WHO reports 89 cases of acute flaccid paralysis, which is mainly caused by a wild polio virus, have been detected this year in Deir Ezzor. It also reports another 26 cases of vaccine-derived polio type 2 cases in the area. The agency says one case of vaccine-derived polio has been discovered in Tell Abyad district in Raqqa along with 14 cases of acute flaccid paralysis in the whole region.



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Deir Ezzor Syria



WHO spokesman Tariq Jasarevic said the campaign aims to vaccinate 328,000 children in Deir Ezzor and 120,000 children in Raqqa, when a planned vaccination campaign in that governorate gets under way. "Hopefully, we will be able to stop this outbreak because even though the vaccine-derived polio is in a way less virulent than the wild polio, it is paralyzing children and it also reflects that there is a low level of immunization," he said. WHO reports 355 vaccination teams from local non-governmental organizations are immunizing children at fixed sites or going door to door to make sure no child is missed. Jasarevic said the community acceptance is high.


He said two immunization rounds are planned for Deir Ezzor, although no date for the second round has been set. He said polio vaccines for two rounds have been shipped to Qamishli, in preparation for the planned campaign in Raqqa; however, the raging battle to retake Raqqa — Islamic State's de facto capital — from the militants puts the starting date of the polio immunization campaign in the outskirts of the city in question.


https://www.voanews.com/a/campaign-underway-stem-polio-outbreak-syria-deir-ezzor/3963375.html

donttread
07-30-2017, 07:28 AM
I know this is old. But it reminds me of a question I had back then. Just how many "ALQ number two men" were there and how many did we kill?

Peter1469
07-30-2017, 08:51 AM
I know this is old. But it reminds me of a question I had back then. Just how many "ALQ number two men" were there and how many did we kill?

lol

donttread
07-30-2017, 11:13 AM
lol

Yes, they must have been drafting the equivelant of PFC's for "number two men" at one point.

Newpublius
07-30-2017, 11:20 AM
As an aside Rotary is heavily involved in the effort to eradicate polio. Gates foundation contributed heavily. Some isolated cases. Eradication of polio can be an achievment similar to eliminating small pox but these festering conflict zones remain a problem.

donttread
07-30-2017, 12:01 PM
As an aside Rotary is heavily involved in the effort to eradicate polio. Gates foundation contributed heavily. Some isolated cases. Eradication of polio can be an achievment similar to eliminating small pox but these festering conflict zones remain a problem.

I don't know that we can totally eliminate these disesases and in the case of mall pox it is kept alive in labs.

Ransom
07-31-2017, 06:38 AM
I know this is old. But it reminds me of a question I had back then. Just how many "ALQ number two men" were there and how many did we kill?

I'll assume that somewhere in your warped thinking, banning vaccines doesn't equate to starving Somalis, so, no help for these poor people huh?

Perhaps at least protect the supply lines bringing medicine.....or like you advocate in Somalia, bomb the supply lines of the radicalists?

What are you going to do here as you advocate US military intervention in Somalia?

waltky
02-05-2018, 08:36 AM
Taliban muckin' up polio vaccinations for Afghani children...
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Unrest Deprives Thousands of Children of Polio Vaccine in Afghanistan
February 04, 2018 | WASHINGTON — Widespread unrest in Afghanistan has kept thousands of children from receiving polio vaccines, Afghan officials claim.


"During each polio vaccination drive, we target about 6 million children," Mir Jan Rasekh, head of the Afghanistan Polio Eradication Public Awareness Program, told VOA. "But due to unrest, fighting, and opposition of armed groups to the vaccine, an estimated 300,000 children (will be) missing the polio vaccines." Rasekh added, "IS fighters do not permit children to receive the anti-polio vaccine in areas under their control." Afghan officials charge that contentious fighting, unrest and opposition to the Taliban, Islamic State and other armed groups are the main obstacles in hard-to-reach areas in southern, southeastern and eastern Afghanistan. According to the Afghan ministry of public health, only three positive cases of the polio virus were recorded in January — two in southern Kandahar, and one in eastern Nangarhar.

Last year, multiple cases were recorded across the country — seven in southern Kandahar, two in southern Helmand, three in eastern Nangarhar, one in southern Zabul and one in the northern Kunduz province. Afghanistan and Pakistan share a border of more than 2,000 kilometers. Thousands of people who cross the border can easily transmit the virus in both countries. Health officials in the eastern Nangarhar province claim that up to 8,000 children have not received the vaccine. "The number of these children in five restive districts of Nangarhar province was 17,000. But now it has reached 8,000. We are working to bring this number down." Najibullah Kamawal, chief of public health in eastern Nangarhar, told VOA.


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An Afghan health worker vaccinates a child as part of a campaign to eliminate polio, on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan

Officials in the northern restive districts of Afghanistan also said that an estimated 30,000 children missed the recent anti-polio campaign. "We call on armed oppositions not to stop anti-polio drives in areas under their control," Lutfullah Azizi, Jawzjan province governor, told the media last month. Afghan health officials said religious clerics, local elders and other leaders have been influential in convincing the armed groups opposing the vaccination — particularly the Taliban — to let the children receive the vaccine. They admit, however, that anti-polio campaigners are facing occasional problems. "These problems are not permanent. Sometimes, some of the local commanders of armed oppositions create problems for the campaigners, but we solve those problems through influential people, local imams (prayer leaders of local mosques) and elders," Hedayatullah Stanikzai, an adviser to the Afghan health minister, told VOA.

The new cases of polio have caused concern among the international stakeholders who are part of the campaign to eradicate polio from Afghanistan. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan worried that the number of cases recorded in January means more children are at risk. The existence of the virus and the children's weak immunity paves the way for the virus to spread more than ever before. We cannot stress enough that polio vaccines must reach every child," said Sayed Kamal Shah, spokesperson for the UNICEF polio program. Poliomyelitis, or polio, is a highly infectious viral disease that mainly affects children under five years of age. The virus is transmitted from person to person and can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis or death. Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria are the three countries in the world where the polio virus remains endemic.

https://www.voanews.com/a/unrest-deprives-thousands-of-children-of-polio-vaccine-in-afghanistan/4239070.html (https://www.voanews.com/a/unrest-deprives-thousands-of-children-of-polio-vaccine-in-afghanistan/4239070.html=/quote])