'Bin Laden is trying to obtain medical attention'

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Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is in poor health and is seeking medical attention, the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat said on Wednesday, quoting a U.S. officer in Afghanistan.

"Osama bin Laden is trying to obtain medical attention," Colonel Don McGraw, director of operations at the Combined Forces Command in Kabul, told a group of British reporters, including one from al-Hayat, it said.

"He (McGraw) refused to say what the al-Qaida leader is suffering from or whether it is the same kidney disease which Pakistani officials said in the past he was suffering from," the newspaper added.

Al-Hayat said it was not clear how the U.S. military had obtained its information or where it thought bin Laden might be.

The Saudi-born militant is believed to have taken refuge somewhere on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan after escaping from U.S. troops and their Afghan allies who toppled the Taliban government that had hosted him in 2001.

The United States holds al-Qaida responsible for many attacks, including the suicide hijack assaults on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001.


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[Bob]

It's becoming more difficult for me to determine propaganda from facts in situations like this. Who cares though. Let the bastard get eaten by vultures in his caves.

Cause if we know he needs medical attention the boy has some money to get it. So he wouldn't rely on public healthcare to get it. And if we know that then why don't we know where he is, which we might even know. I just don't see a point for a journalist organization to post this. (Nothing against the messenger who posted it here)