A top Osama bin Laden lieutenant remained composed and defiant when he was taken into U.S. custody last week despite three gunshot wounds, the medical staff who treated him said Saturday. Abu Zubaydah, possibly the third-ranking figure in bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network, was shot in the stomach and leg during a joint U.S.-Pakistani raid March 28 on a hide-out in the southern city of Faisalabad, doctors said by telephone on condition of anonymity. Rushed to the city's state-run Allied Hospital for treatment, Abu Zubaydah remained "composed and confident," according to one of the doctors who treated him. His main concern was who took care of him, staff said. "He said: 'I should not be touched by Americans,'" a nurse said.
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