Jul 03 2008
Laden on death bed, claim CIA officials!
The US intelligence agency CIA claimed that Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden is suffering from a terminal kidney disease and on death bed. Two officials confirmed that he may live only for a few months only.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was the first person to claim that Laden suffered from kidney disease and was on dialysis.
One of the two CIA officials quoted the report that came out six-nine months ago saying, “Based on his current pharmaceutical intake we would expect that he has no more than 6-18 months to live and impending kidney failure.”
The intelligence agency confirmed the news by getting the names of some of the medications Bin Laden was taking.
“It’s trying to make a diagnosis from thousands of miles away with only fragments of the medical chart,” the Time magazine quoted Paul Pillar, the former top analyst and deputy director of the CIA’s counter-terrorism centre, as saying.
Frances Fragos Townsend, who was chief of the White House Homeland Security Council said, “I’ve read all the same conflicting reports that people have talked to you about. I never found one set of reporting more persuasive than another.”
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