Posted on 07/02/2008 2:34:49 PM PDT by Coffee200am
Washington: Two officials of the US intelligence agency CIA have claimed that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was on death bed as he suffered from a terminal kidney disease, and may live only for a few months.
The intelligence agency also managed to get the names of some of the medications Bin Laden was taking.
One of the two CIA officials familiar with the report that came out six-nine months ago, quoted it as saying, “Based on his current pharmaceutical intake we would expect that he has no more than 6-18 months to live and impending kidney failure.”
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was the first person to claim that Laden suffered from kidney disease and was on dialysis.
“It’s trying to make a diagnosis from thousands of miles away with only fragments of the medical chart,” the Time magazine quoted Paul Pillar, the former top analyst and deputy director of the CIA's counter-terrorism centre, as saying.
Frances Fragos Townsend, who was chief of the White House Homeland Security Council said, “I've read all the same conflicting reports that people have talked to you about. I never found one set of reporting more persuasive than another.”
I knew the CIA would get him sooner or later .
Does that mean I’m not going to get to see him throw out the first pitch in the 2008 World Series?
Darn, I wanted to execute him here.
I thought he kicked the Islamic bucket several years ago.
we got these same stories 5 years ago.....bs.
I believe this as much as anything else I read or see without any first hand knowledge.
OBL will last until the Nov elections.
If he’s alive....I hope it hurts...really, really bad!!
Well, for Pete’s Sake! Speed it along, would ya? ;)
I’ll believe it when I see his body. There have been rumors of Obama, er Osama’s demise for quite some time.
It is kind of hard to tell the prognosis of a patient based solely on a medication list.
Was it Mark Twain that said “Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated”?
Why is he not found. American has the resources and the will power to find him. I can’t believe one person can hide for 7 years and billions spent. But we know his medications, Geez.
I wanted us to kill him and display his body. Him dying in bed will make him more of a hero because he “outfoxed the great evil” and stayed at large for his later life.
Whatever.
Based on his current pharmaceutical intake we would expect that he has no more than 6-18 months to live and impending kidney failure.”
if they know his pharmaceutical intake, can’t they trace where he is and kill the sucker. It would be even better if we could catch him and parade him around like Saddam, then ....
I wish he would die of lead poisoning than liver disease.
I vote for seeing him thrown out of the Goodyear Blimp onto the field right before the first pitch of the 2008 World Series.
I would find it much more satisfying if I could see a picture of the desert boots of several Delta Force operators standing over Osama’s corpse with 2 entry wounds to the forehead, but that’s just me.
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