Is Osama Bin Laden dying again ?

Submitted by Inani (India), Jul 4, 2008 at 02:52

Is Osama bin Laden dying again?

2. That is the headline under which many skeptic online journals of the world have carried a story of the Time magazine that some CIA analysts believe that bin Laden is finally in his death bed due to a progressive deterioration of his kidneys. How did they come to this conclusion? On the basis of source reports regarding the kind of medicines he is taking. It is said that these medicines can help him for some time, but cannot prevent his death. If this report is to be believed, the count-down for his death has already started. At the same time, the magazine has added in its report that other CIA officials deny that any such report had been prepared in the CIA.

3. This report reminds one of a report carried by a French regional newspaper on September 23, 2006, that according to the French intelligence, bin Laden had died after a severe attack of typhoid. According to the newspaper, the French intelligence got the information of bin Laden's death from its Saudi counterpart. Some weeks later, to the consternation of everybody, bin Laden came out with new audio messages, which tended to prove that he was definitely alive, though he may not be quite that kicking.

4. His earlier imminent death was reported by the CNN on October 26,2002, when it carried the following report: "- The editor-in-chief of a London-based Arab news magazine said a purported will it published Saturday was written late last year by Osama bin Laden, and shows "he's dying or he's going to die soon." U.S. intelligence officials say they have the purported will, but are not able to say if it is genuine. CNN has not been able to verify that the document is bin Laden's will. "He did write the will as someone saying good-bye," Hani Nakshabandi of the Arab news magazine Al Majalla told CNN. He said one of the magazine's reporters obtained the four-page document, said to be signed by the leader of the al Qaeda terrorist network and dated December 14, 2001, in Afghanistan.

In the document, which was translated for CNN, the writer expresses disappointment with the Taliban, who harbored him in Afghanistan, speaks of betrayal, and urges his children to shun al Qaeda. "Even amongst the students of religion, only few stood their ground and fought, and the rest either surrendered or fled," the document says, referring to the Taliban, according to a translation for CNN. Despite the setbacks, the purported will says, "We will be victorious against the U.S. and the infidel West even if it takes tens of years." "My last advice is to the mujahedeen everywhere," the document says. "Take a breather and put aside for the time being, fighting the Jews and the Crusaders, and instead devote your efforts to purifying your groups from the agents and the cowards and those impostors who claim to be scholars amongst you."

5. It was apparent to anyone that this was a psywar operation carried out by the CIA in the hope of creating a divide between Al Qaeda and the Taliban and confusion in their ranks. This was such a crude attempt that nobody took it seriously.

6. It has been reported since the middle 1990s that bin Laden was suffering from a kidney deficiency, which he developed when he was living in Khartoum before 1996 and that he required periodic dialysis. There were even reports that he was undergoing the dialysis in a military hospital in Peshawar. The Saudi media had even quoted one of his wives living in Saudi Arabia as saying that he was suffering from a kidney deficiency.

7. There has been speculation from time to time as to how he is getting his dialysis done now. Police sources in Pakistan discount American claims that he is in the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) because, according to them, he would not be able to get his dialysis done regularly in the FATA. They, therefore, surmise that if he has been managing to get his dialysis done, he must be in one of the cities of Pakistan such as Peshawar or Quetta and not in the remote tribal areas.

8. What is the present state of his kidneys? Is his death approaching? Only the doctors treating him will know the answers to these questions. If the CIA really has access to these doctors or their staff, why is it not using them to catch him or kill him by administering wrong medicines to him?

9. It is said that when he was the Prime Minister before October, 1999, Nawaz Sharif used to say that it would be in the interest of the international community that bin Laden died at the hands of his doctor rather than at the hands of the Americans. If he died at the hands of the Americans, he would become even a greater hero in the eyes of the Muslims. If he died at the hands of a doctor, the Ummah would forget him shortly thereafter.

10. Will bin Laden die definitively at least now---- to prove the CIA right?

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If Osama dies naturally , Muslims will always boast that Lion of Islam attacked US and never got caught caught. American Might was helpless against the "Gaibi Takat" ( Hidden Power) of Allah.

So its necessary that US should send special Commando Team to hunt Bin Laden and bring him to justise .

We should give a clear signal that blood of innocent civilians is not so cheap that Jehadis can spill it any time , anywhere. We should make sure that they realise that price tag on lives on innocents are very high that Terrorists have to pay with their life.

Top Priority should be hunting Osama, Jawahiri and Mullah Omar before US elects its new President.

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