Does Osama bin Laden have kidney problems, or not ?

[EVDebs]

The new video of 9-11: Press For Truth shows us that OBL was in Pakistan prior to 9-11

but now you have conflicting media links saying
yes he does and others saying no he doesn't

Forbidden Truth said it was treatment in July 2001 in another Gulf country, Dubai(btw, LeFigaro was then part-owned by Carlisle Group); according to the National Review,

""Richard Miniter: I tracked down nearly everyone who met bin Laden in the past 20 years. Every one that I was able to speak to said that bin Laden has no kidney troubles.""

Myth busting
http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/miniter200511030759.asp

Did Quake Shake Bin Laden's Lair ?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/11/terror/main936327.shtml

This was repeated again in CBS's 60 Minutes a few months ago with a story discounting OBL having kidney problems in a story about OBL's former chauffer , contradicting another CBS News report'

""In a tale as twisted as the hunt for Osama bin Laden, CBS Evening News has been told that the night before the Sept. 11 terrorists attack, Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan. He was getting medical treatment with the support of the very military that days later pledged its backing for the U.S. war on terror in Afghanistan.

Pakistan intelligence sources tell CBS News that bin Laden was spirited into a military hospital in Rawalpindi for kidney dialysis treatment.""

Due to the Bush administration's incompetence, you'd think tracking kidney medical supplies could lead to this guy ?





Hospital Worker: I Saw Osama
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/28/eveningnews/main325887.shtml

[Freedom_from_Chains]

1. Depends, does he need too to make the spin story work? n/t

[Richard Steele]

2. Really hard to seperate the truth from the BS, so who knows?

They claimed al-Zarquawi was missing a leg as well,
when it suited their purposes to do so.

[razors edge]

3. Not if he's dead.

http://www.welfarestate.com/binladen/funeral/

Islamabad -
A prominent official in the Afghan Taleban movement announced yesterday the death of Osama bin Laden, the chief of al-Qa'da organization, stating that binLaden suffered serious complications in the lungs and died a natural and quiet death. The official, who asked to remain anonymous, stated to The Observer of Pakistan that he had himself attended the funeral of bin Laden and saw his face prior to burial in Tora Bora 10 days ago. He mentioned that 30 of al-Qa'da fighters attended the burial as well as members of his family and some friends from the Taleban. In the farewell ceremony to his final rest guns were fired in the air. The official stated that it is difficult to pinpoint the burial location of bin Laden because according to the Wahhabi tradition no mark is left by the grave. He stressed that it is unlikely that the American forces would ever uncover any traces of bin Laden

[niyad]

4. look at it this way--how bloody hard is it to spot a tall, elderly-looking

arab dragging around a portable dialysis machine? without the kidney problems, he can just fade into the countryside.

[rodeodance]

5. i think he long dead

[Sinti]

6. Maybe he got some replacement parts put in n/t

[Bucky]

7. to quote Creedy from "V for Vendetta"

Creedy: "Die! Die! Why won't you die?"