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

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

I cry bogus here.

[Osinski]

Hey! Had you withdrawn temporarily and now you're back? Thanks for the post.

[Fred Mertz]

Very interesting but quite difficult to believe. Thanks for flagging me.

[aristeides]

Remember the reports that bin Laden's mother was in the American hospital in Paris when he phoned her on Sept. 9th.

[woofie]

I saw Elvis go in there too

[Semper911]

All your CIA are belong to us.

[jennyp]

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:

[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.

[HAL9000]

From American Hospital Dubai web site -

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

[Chemnitz]

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.

[Benoit Baldwin]

>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!

[aristeides]

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".

[aristeides]

Oui, escargots sont délicieux, et grenouilles aussi.

[PRND21]

The facts here are limper than Osammy's noodle.
There's always a "little" truth in these articles, right?

[democratsstealvotes]

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.

[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?

[Pericles]

Read the AFP English language article here. I provided some nice back up links as well.