Cindy, the FR article was pulled, but I found a link to the original article, here are a couple of excerpts:
Thursday, October 20, 2005
US, UK teams search quake rubble for Osama Bin Laden
In recent weeks, both MI6 and the CIA have established that Bin Laden has received a portable kidney dialysis machine from China but it requires electricity to power it.
Drones, unmanned aircraft that US Special Forces launched from Afghanistan last week, have reported that the area along the border has lost all power supplies.
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One Washington terrorism expert, Bruce Hoffman at the Rand Corporation, said that if Bin Laden had managed to escape the earthquake, he might have made his way to the disputed Kashmir region.
There is also the possibility that he could have made his way back to the Toba Kakar Range in Afghanistan. But veteran CIA officer Milt Bearden said: “If Bin Laden is dead, the world will never know.
We just have to wait until somebody drags out his body and says; This is Bin Laden. My bet is that won’t happen.”
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2005%5C10%5C20%5Cstory_20-10-2005_pg7_7
I was wondering about that. But then I was also grumbling to myself - that if we let someone who we don't even know their identity be a translator over there (previous smoking gun report) even if we had Bin Laden, we might not know it.
Do we have his DNA somewhere to compare it to a 'body' or remains?
It was reposted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1506266/posts
Thanks Lucy for that update.