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Six WHO vaccine coolers went missing - then bin Laden died and they became evidence

Six WHO vaccine coolers went missing - then bin Laden died and they became evidence

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Six WHO vaccine coolers went missing - then bin Laden died and they became evidence

A doctor’s vaccine coolers vanished from a remote hospital with no campaign scheduled, then the same name surfaced in the CIA’s operation that led to Osama bin Laden’s death-so how did cold-chain boxes become central evidence in an international spy drama? The missing WHO-branded coolers, unauthorized financing and twenty-five documented meetings tie one surgeon to a high-stakes intelligence plot that still leaves questions about what was actually collected.

In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events connecting Jamrud Hospital, a hepatitis B vaccination program in Abbottabad, and the Abbottabad raid on May 2, 2011, detailing what happened to the cooler boxes and to Shakil Afridi as those facts were revealed.

Person: Shakil Afridi
Date: May 2, 2011
Location: Jamrud Hospital, Khyber Agency; Abbottabad compound
Event: CIA-backed hepatitis B vaccination drive intended to obtain DNA
Status: Cooler boxes missing; Afridi detained at Torkham border with six WHO-branded coolers

- Afridi graduated from Khyber Agency College in 1990 and became chief surgeon at Jamrud Hospital.
- The vaccination program was independently financed with no approval or paperwork from local health authorities.
- Investigators documented twenty-five meetings between Afridi and individuals described as foreign secret agents.
- Afridi was already a CIA asset before the vaccination program began, according to public records.
- Six WHO-branded vaccine cooler boxes were removed from Jamrud Hospital and found traceable to Afridi at the Torkham border.

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