...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
vaccination campaign last week, local officials said. The teachers were seized by bully boyz on November 21 from a school in the Khyber Agency
. They were kidnapped just after a team giving polio vaccinations had left the school and the bully boyz may have mistaken them for the polio team, Khyber official Niaz Ahmad Khan said. They were moved to an area controlled by Death Eater leader Mangal Bagh...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency...
and his Taliban-affiliated group, Lashkar-e-Islam.
Khan said a group of tribal elders, known as a jirga, was sent to secure the teachers' release. "The bully boyz cooperated with the jirga members and freed all the kidnapped...teachers," said Khan. A tribal elder, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, said the bully boyz freed the teachers on condition the government stop sending polio teams to the area. Gunmen frequently attack polio vaccination workers, accusing them of being Western spies and part of a plot to sterilise Musselmens.
"The polio workers have been released in Tirah valley and they will reach Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
by tomorrow (Wednesday)," Nasir Khan, a senior Khyber administration official, told AFP. Their release was secured with the help of tribal elders, he added. A local intelligence official confirmed the release. Officials in Khyber said the group was made up of four teachers at a private school, a male nurse and two volunteers. A global eradication campaign has reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent in the last three decades, but it remains endemic in Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistain. The disease is highly infectious and can cause irreversible paralysis.