Here’s a real kick in the shin: chances are the brainchild of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will get the COVID vaccine before you do.
Accused terrorist brains such as KSM and other detainees in Guantanamo Bay will begin receiving the coronavirus vaccine, the Pentagon confirmed Friday, even as the United States continues to experience severe shortages of the miracle.
A Defense Department spokesman confirmed that officials had signed an order in which COVID-19 vaccinations were “offered to all inmates and inmates”.
The shots can already be given next week.
“It will be administered on a voluntary basis and in line with the department’s priority plan,” spokesman Michael Howard told The Post.
Forty detainees remain in the U.S. military prison in Cuba, including the man accused of planning the worst attack on U.S. soil, which claimed 2,977 innocent lives on September 11, 2001 and has since been linked to thousands of other deaths.
The order was signed on January 27 by Terry Adirim, the chief deputy assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, who was sworn in on the inauguration day as a nomination of Biden, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed.
The move immediately sparked anger from New Yorkers who experienced New York and helped bring it back from its darkest day.
“You can not make it up. The ridiculousness of what we get from our government. “They will put the vaccine down to the low life on Guantanamo Bay before every resident of the United States it is the theater of the absurd,” said Tom Von Essen, who was in the city’s fire commissioner during 9/11, and 343 firefighters lost 9/11.
“It’s nut,” he says of KSM getting the vaccine before most Americans can do it.
John Feal, a supervising supervisor at the Ground Zero stack in the wake of the attacks that have various 9/11-related illnesses, and who have not yet received the vaccine, was stunned by the news.
“The fact that the 9/11 community cannot get the vaccine and the terrorists can show how backward our government is,” he told The Post. ‘This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. It is an insult to the people who have run into the towers and been killed, and to those who have been working for months and are sick. ‘
The average 9/11 respondent was then 38 and is now 58-59 years old, less than getting the vaccine in New York, says Feal, who runs the Feal Good Foundation, an interest group for 9/11 respondents and who helped push Congress to permanently expand the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.
Brian Sullivan, a retired special security agent at the Federal Aviation Administration, said: ‘I’m incensed. This is completely outrageous. I’m 75. I did not get my COVID vaccine. Are they going to give it to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed? ”
Sullivan added that it was a scandal that the terrorists did not face justice during the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. ‘This news adds insult to injury. “This is a slap in the face to the families of the 9/11 victims,” Sullivan said.
‘This year marks the 20th anniversary and the terrorists are still in Guantanamo. And now we’re going to give them the COVID vaccine. This is just insane. ”
Two other men, accused of being complicit in the 2002 bombings in Bali, in which 202 people were killed, were also given the vaccines by the Department of Defense.
The Pentagon’s decision comes when states like New York complain that their closets are bare, forcing them to cancel a massive vaccination program, and the Biden government warns that the shortfall will last until 2021.
The Post revealed on Tuesday that thousands of teachers in New York City have canceled their COVID-19 vaccine appointments due to the weakening supply and planning of snafus.
“It is inexcusable and un-American that President Biden prefers to prioritize convicted terrorists in Gitmo over vulnerable U.S. seniors or veterans,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said.
Retired FDNY lieutenant Michael O’Connell was working on search and rescue when the towers fell. This left him with sarcoidosis, an autoimmune disease.
‘It’s a real kick in the ball. This is very disturbing. It is absolutely disgusting, “he said of the vaccination order for Gitmo.
‘These terrorists have done damage, but the patriots are the ones who have to wait to be vaccinated. We responded within ten seconds after the first plane crashed into the building. Here we are a year later [since the COVID-19 outbreak] and the politicians can not get it right about the coronavirus vaccine. ”
– Additional reporting by Steven Nelson