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Summary The CIA fake vaccination programme to secretly obtain DNA from Osama bin Ladens kids is under fire.
The agency is fighting back against charges that its ruse could endanger legitimate vaccination programmes around the world.Michael O’Brien, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Pakistan, said the CIA operation may make it more difficult for public health workers in Pakistan to administer vaccines in a country that has the highest rate of polio in the world.But CIA officials dismissed the criticism, saying the hunt for bin Laden justified the bogus vaccine programme.
