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July 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The WHO’s preliminary findings put the body at odds with the Afghanistan’s
security forces who say they have become convinced the attacks are
genuine and have arrested numerous suspected poisoners.
Seven were arrested on Tuesday and several were said to have confessed
already.
Security officials have blamed neighbouring Pakistan and said the poisonings
were an attempt to destabilise Afghanistan and weaken its future.
The poisoning of school water tanks, or the use of a gas or noxious liquid
have all been suggested as potential weapons. Many girls reported smelling a
strange odour before they were overcome.
However an analysis given to The Daily Telegraph of 32 such incidents, all but
two at girls’ schools, casts significant doubt on the poisoning theory.
The WHO said it and the Afghan ministry of public health were “taking
every step to address this menace in the interest of public health.” “According
to preliminary findings, incidents’ analysis and the prevailing situation,
Mass Psychological Illness is the most probable cause,” a statement
said.
A child psychologist has been drafted in to study the incidents, sources
added.
Poisoning could not be ruled out without further tests, but after examining
more than 200 laboratory samples of blood, urine and water so far, there was “no
conclusive evidence of deliberate poisoning found”.
The fact that few teachers had been taken ill also argued against mass
poisoning.
Academics who have studied mass hysteria say it has occurred before in war
zones, where tensions and uncertainty are high. Similar cases were reported
in the Palestinian territories in 1983 to Soviet Georgia in 1989 and Kosovo
in 1990.
Peter Kinderman, professor of clinical psychology at the University of
Liverpool, said: “People do follow the crowd in lots of ways and we are
social animals.
“When it comes to these mass anxiety attacks, there have been many
throughout history.”
If people were already worried by rumours of gas attacks and someone nearby
began to appear ill, then others could soon panic, hyperventilate and become
ill themselves.
“They symptoms can be very convincing because in a sense they are real,”
he said.
Earlier smaller investigations by the Nato coalition have also undermined
suggestions of poisoning. In April the coalition was called in to test water
supplies after girls were taken ill at a high school in Takhar province.
“Results concluded that naturally occurring bacterial contamination was
responsible. No toxins were found in the water,” said Brian Badura, a
spokesman in the coalition’s Kabul headquarters.
Police said they remained convinced at least some of the attacks were genuine.
The seven alleged poisoners held this week in Sar-e Pul province had
employed a schoolgirl to take a chemical spray into class, said Siddique
Siddiqi, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior.
“We have initial proof these people were involved and we have confessions,”
he said.
The hospitalisation of thousands of female students has had a devastating
effect on education in several areas, as parents have kept their children
from classes.
Following two incidents in Ghazni, south west of the capital, schools were
allegedly closed and 36,000 students stopped going to school for some time.
“The uncertainties about the cause of these incidents and growing rumours
have had a significant impact on education, and especially girls’ education,”
the WHO said.
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