Asia Times Online says Osama in "rapidly declining" health....

[Gloria]

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

Inside the anti-US resistance
By Syed Saleem Shahzad

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 was in a poor condition when my father last visited," said the operative, who uses the name "Abdullah". Abdullah's father, known as Sheikh Ibrahim, is number two after Tahir Yuldeshev in the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IUM), a
group closely allied with al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and operating in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan.

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.

"He asked all of us to pray for his health. For the past many months he has been on dialysis and just cannot move. My father never told me where he was when he met Osama ... but he was worried about his fast-waning health."

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1. See we didn't need that special op unit anyway.

[INdemo]

3. This proves in all probability that the CIA knows where he is at

the CIA was bound to know many of Osama's contacts and were following many of them..It just makes sense..

[Fridays Child]

8. My thought exactly! nt

[me b zola]

12. Yeah, like Dubai, either receiving medical treatment or in a freezer

Oh how I wish a whistle blower in the CIA would pull back this veil before Oct '08.

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[GrumpyGreg]

4. Ditto !

[Demeter]

5. "I've Been Dead Before"

Spock--Star Trek 6?

[Straight Shooter]

6. But his voice is still strong on the tapes.

Okay, whatever they say. :eyes:

[BringEmOn]

7. It's Rove on the phone...says take Osama outta the freezer.

[Boojatta]

9. Interesting choice of words

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.

If a group of adherents of the Bahai faith who live in various countries got together and hijacked some Iranian airplanes and slammed the airplanes into high-density civilian areas of Tehran, then would the leaders of that group of adherents of the Bahai faith be "the fulcrum of a global, Bahai resistance against Iran"?

[rzemanfl]

10. Pretty soon he'll be as dead as Ken Lay. n/t

[SoCalDem]

11. Wouldn't surprise me if we killed him at Tora Bora.

It works to *²'s advantage to have him "alive" and still menacing. My theory is that after the drubbing he gave the "press", he may have thought that closing down the Osama-Unit would go with little notice.. (Why pretend to chase a dead guy forever and spend money on it)

Osama only "pops up" when it does *² some good anyway.. If he is truly "free to move about the cabin", why has he not been seen on tv more?

I have no doubt that video wizards could "make him say whatever" they need him to say, and re-kill him when it suits them..

:tinfoilhat: or No:tinfoilhat: