Bin Laden - languisihing on a dialysis machine

[varun]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HG08Df01.html

Osama Bin Laden is ill and invisible, but five years after September 11, 2001, his al-Qaeda movement has become the fulcrum of a global, Islamic resistance against the United States.

Asia Times Online has learned from an operative close to the al-Qaeda leadership that bin Laden languishes on a dialysis machine, in rapidly declining health....

...Sheikh Ibrahim's meeting with bin Laden took place "a few weeks ago", Abdullah told Asia Times Online in an interview at the end of June in a northern Pakistani city. Abdullah had traveled there from North Waziristan, a Pakistani tribal agency on the Afghanistan border, to meet this correspondent...

[enough already]

1. "Northern Pakistani city"????

I thought Crawford was in Texas.

[WhiteTara]

2. and this is news?

I would think a man of bin Laden's wealth, that a kidney would have popped up by now. I mean he was languishing on a dialysis machine before 2001. Sounds phony to me. :shrug:

[Minnesota Libra]

3. I didn't believe it then and don't believe it now..............

....bin Laden is part of the Saudi royal family, he could have and still can buy his way into a new kidney. China has and can get "spare organs" and Bin Laden has the money to pay. So it just doesn't make sense to say Bin Laden languishes on a dialysis machine or in any other way that he doesn't want to.