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French media reports claim bin Laden met CIA representative in Dubai hospital in July
AFP via Babelfish, Le Figaro (Paris) ^ | Wednesday October 31 2001 - 2h51 GMT

Posted on 10/30/2001 6:10:12 PM PST by HAL9000

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To: HAL9000
I cry bogus here.
21 posted on 10/30/2001 6:58:50 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
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To: HAL9000
Hey! Had you withdrawn temporarily and now you're back? Thanks for the post.
22 posted on 10/30/2001 7:02:25 PM PST by Osinski
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To: aristeides
Very interesting but quite difficult to believe. Thanks for flagging me.
23 posted on 10/30/2001 7:02:26 PM PST by Fred Mertz
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To: Fred Mertz; HAL9000
Remember the reports that bin Laden's mother was in the American hospital in Paris when he phoned her on Sept. 9th.
24 posted on 10/30/2001 7:03:59 PM PST by aristeides
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To: HAL9000
I saw Elvis go in there too
25 posted on 10/30/2001 7:06:26 PM PST by woofie
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To: HAL9000
All your CIA are belong to us.
26 posted on 10/30/2001 7:07:02 PM PST by Semper911
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To: pgkdan
Are we to believe that this fellow has "Secret CIA Operative" printed on his business card?

Of course not! He's a master of disguise. Here's a recent photo of him and his associate in Afghanistan:


27 posted on 10/30/2001 7:21:09 PM PST by jennyp
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To: HAL9000
From AFP English Language News Service via Yahoo Singapore -

Wednesday October 31, 12:03 PM

Bin Laden underwent treatment in July at Dubai American Hospital

Osama bin Laden underwent treatment in July at the American Hospital in Dubai where he met a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official, French daily Le Figaro and Radio France International reported.

Quoting "a witness, a professional partner of the administrative management of the hospital," they said the man suspected by the United States of being behind the September 11 terrorist attacks had arrived in Dubai on July 4 by air from Quetta, Pakistan.

He was immediately taken to the hospital for kidney treatment. He left the establishment on July 14, Le Figaro said.

During his stay, the daily said, the local CIA representative was seen going into bin Laden's room and "a few days later, the CIA man boasted to some friends of having visited the Saudi-born millionaire."

Quoting "an authoritative source," Le Figaro and the radio station said the CIA representative had been recalled to Washington on July 15.

Bin Laden has been sought by the United States for terrorism since the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. But his CIA links go back before that to the fight against Soviet forces in Afghanistan.

Le Figaro said bin Laden was accompanied in Dubai by his personal physician and close collaborator, who could be the Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahari, as well as bodyguards and an Algerian nurse.

He was admitted to the urology department of Doctor Terry Callaway, who specializes in kidney stones and male infertility. Telephoned several times, the doctor declined to answer questions.

Several sources had reported that bin Laden had a serious kidney infection. He had a mobile dialysis machine sent to his Kandahar hideout in Afghanistan in the first half of 2000, according to "authoritative sources" quoted by Le Figaro and RFI.


29 posted on 10/30/2001 7:26:26 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
From American Hospital Dubai web site -

Directory of Physicians


UROLOGIC SURGERY

Dr. Terry Callaway, MD, FRCSC, FACS
Dr. Callaway was trained in Canada. He has extensive experience of Middle Eastern urological problems, having spent eight years at the King Fahad National Guard Hospital in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has had extra training in Laparoscopic Urological Techniques. His special Interest is in the management of Renal Calculus Disease and Management of Urological Problems in Children.

 

Services Provided

- Urinary Tract Calculus Disease Surgery Including Intracorporeal Lithotripsy

- Male Infertility Procedures

- Pediatric Urology

- Endourology

- Selected Prostatic Surgery

- Selective Urological Oncologic Surgery

- Comprehensive Urodynamic Studies

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30 posted on 10/30/2001 7:41:26 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: Gimme
They have vans with CIA painted on them. I used to see them all the time in New Haven, CT, near Yale Divinity School on Prospect. My wife says it stood for Cullinary Institute of America, but I think she was covering up for them. What better story could you have? Hide in plain sight! Of course everyone dismissed the idea that the trucks really belonged to the CIA! Perfect. I keep trying to explain it to my wife, but she won't listen either.
32 posted on 10/30/2001 7:49:10 PM PST by Chemnitz
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

>The French??? What the hell have the French ever known 
>except how to cook snails and surrender swiftly?

They did assist us in defeating a certain King George, if I recall correctly.

Et escargots--ils sont délicieux!

34 posted on 10/30/2001 7:59:19 PM PST by Benoit Baldwin
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To: HAL9000; Pericles
Pericles set up a thread based on the English translation of the AFP story: Bin Laden underwent treatment in July at Dubai American Hospital "where he met a CIA official".
35 posted on 10/30/2001 8:08:13 PM PST by aristeides
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To: Benoit Baldwin
Oui, escargots sont délicieux, et grenouilles aussi.
36 posted on 10/30/2001 8:10:13 PM PST by aristeides
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To: HAL9000
The facts here are limper than Osammy's noodle.
There's always a "little" truth in these articles, right?
37 posted on 10/30/2001 8:51:07 PM PST by PRND21
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To: Dog Gone
The story is kooky in addition to being poorly written. (Is English the author's native language?)But I don't consider the CIA a friend of the American people,nevertheless.Grains of truth may be present.
38 posted on 10/30/2001 9:41:12 PM PST by democratsstealvotes
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To: democratsstealvotes
The second translation was considerably more literate, but I fail to see any significance in the story except that OBL may die of kidney failure which would not be too regrettable, n'est-ce pas?
39 posted on 10/30/2001 9:49:12 PM PST by democratsstealvotes
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To: democratsstealvotes; VaBthang4; Dog Gone; Hugh Akston; FReethesheeples; Zordas; Waco; amundsen...
Read the AFP English language article here. I provided some nice back up links as well.
40 posted on 10/30/2001 9:58:32 PM PST by Pericles
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