Health workers linked to CIA scheme fired

ABBOTTABAD: A Pakistani government official said 17 health workers have been fired for allegedly participating in a CIA scheme to confirm the presence of Osama bin Laden in a northwestern town. A senior health official in Abbottabad district, Zafeer Ahmed, said on Wednesday that the workers, 16 women and one man, were dismissed because they failed to inform authorities, they were helping Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi with a fake vaccination programme meant to obtain the al Qaeda chief's DNA. Th... more

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