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.
Its 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.
That seven years is from 9/11 only. I think I remember hearing Clinton saying that he’d devoted years to rolling Obama up. If the most powerful man on the planet spent as much time as Clinton claims he did, directing the CIA and others to find Obama, he would’ve been found.
I think he lost it at Tora Bora. It would not have been politically judicious for him to have been killed at that time, however. His death would have set up a possibily irresistible cheer on the left/in the MSM that we had “won the war” and it was time to “bring the troops home!” because MSM had defined the purpose of the war as to Get OBL and Bush, as articulate as ever, had let that ride, even said some things that seemed to accept that formulation.
Osama bin Laden is already deader than Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
Thinking the same thing. We know what prescriptions are being filled for him, yet we have no idea of his location?
Amazing isn’t it?
Is there some reason why we know his meds, pakistan knows his meds, everyone knows his prognosis, but we can't find him?
This whole story is crap.
Thus he joins Francisco Franco and Mother Teresa in the running for the longest deathbed scene. In the immortal words of Michael Corleone apropos to Hyman Roth: “He’s been dying of the same heart attack for ten years.”
hey benny...dont die yet...turn yourself over to some not to be named New Yorkers....they will take good care of youse...promise!
He'll probably be at the inauguration.
I heard he was going to be throwing out the opening grenade at the Chinese Olympics.
I know I believe and trust what the C.I.A. has to say.
Yeah, RIGHT.
If he was smart he would surrender and end up at Gitmo. Once there, we would pay for his kidney transplant and make him a new man. While relaxing at CG he would be represented by our best lawyers who would get him released thanks to our pathetic Supreme Court's recent ruling. Then he would sue our country while the leftists in our midst cheer him on.
He's just pining for the fjords!
Osama has been dead for many years.
They’re smokin him out....or he’s dead Jim.
“If hes alive....I hope it hurts...really, really bad!!”
Would passing one kidney stone per day be bad enough for you?
I believe he’s probably dead already; but if he ain’t, I hope that he is soon to experience a bomb blast and will lie dying for at least 2 weeks with half his body burned away, before he is stomped to death by American patriots.
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