Flashback 2008: Time Magazine – Is Osama Bin Laden Dying … Again?
- If you believe the Liar in Chief: Obama about Osama yesterday, I have a house on Planet Jupiter I like to sell to you! Yup, Osama, Elvis and Michael Jackson are forming a party to run for president in 2012! Lots of disinformation and propaganda out there to manipulate the sheeple!
Is Osama bin Laden Dying … Again?By Massimo Calabresi / Washington Monday, June 30, 2008
Which is closer to dying: Osama bin Laden or the CIA’s effort to catch him? Nothing has characterized the fruitlessness of the hunt for the al-Qaeda leader so much as the recurrent — and mostly inaccurate — reports that he is seriously ailing, or even at death’s door. In 2002, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said bin Laden had kidney disease, and that he had required a dialysis machine when he lived in Afghanistan. That same year, the FBI’s top counterterrorism official, Dale Watson, said, “I personally think he is probably not with us anymore.” Since then, of course, bin Laden has appeared on multiple videos looking healthier than ever.
Now the CIA has produced a report saying that bin Laden has long-term kidney disease and may have only months to live, two U.S. officials familiar with the report told TIME. The agency ostensibly managed to get the names of some of the medications bin Laden is taking. One U.S. official familiar with the report, which came out between six and nine months ago, says it concluded, “Based on his current pharmaceutical intake, [we] would expect that he has no more than six to 18 months to live and impending kidney failure.”
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