Five female polio workers and male volunteer shot dead in Pakistan:; others wounded.

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Gunmen Kill 5 Female Polio Workers in Pakistan

y By ADIL JAWAD Associated Press
KARACHI, Pakistan December 18, 2012 (AP)

Gunmen killed five Pakistani women working on a U.N.-backed polio vaccination campaign in two different cities on Tuesday, officials said. The attacks were likely an attempt by the Taliban to counter an initiative the militant group has opposed.

The attacks came a day after an unknown gunman killed a male volunteer for the World Health Organization's anti-polio campaign in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi.

The government is in the middle of a three-day vaccination campaign in the highest risk parts of the country, part of an effort to vaccinate millions of children under the age of five.

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The government suspended the vaccination campaign in Karachi in the wake of the shootings, said Ahmed. The campaign started on Monday and was supposed to run until Wednesday, he said.

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The Taliban have spoken out against polio vaccination in recent months, claiming the health workers are acting as spies for the U.S. and the vaccine itself causes harm. Militants in parts of Pakistan's tribal region have also said the vaccination campaign can't go forward until the U.S. stops drone attacks in the country.

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Distrust of health programs was predicted after the U.S. used a health program to gather intelligence about the whereabouts of Bin Laden, but I don't think the predictions were as bad as this, just that people might not get vaccinations and treatment.

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1. Let them wallow in their ignorance....nt

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2. They are wallowing in their suspicions of a program they (and we) know the U.S. used for gathering

intel.