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2005-09-14 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Steve 2005-09-14 09:52|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This Colonel just didn't make this up...this had to have been cleared by higher ups.

Posted by Grins Sluper5274 2005-09-14 10:23|| 2005-09-14 10:23|| Front Page Top

#2 I see a few possibilities here. His death is kept secret so the followers will still have him for a leader. Or would he marytr himself, for a 'big' disaster, thinking that he will die anyway. I can't see him just dying of natural causes huh. No virgins and all that right.
Interesting that it's a London based new source that is reporting on his health needs. Again seeking medical care away from the middle east.

Posted by Jan 2005-09-14 10:35|| 2005-09-14 10:35|| Front Page Top

#3 He's as Ill as a dodo.

Posted by Jake-the-Peg 2005-09-14 10:57|| 2005-09-14 10:57|| Front Page Top

#4 KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. military in Afghanistan denied on Wednesday that one of its officers had told reporters Osama bin Laden was seeking medical attention. The London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat, citing U.S. Colonel Don McGraw in a briefing with reporters in Kabul, said on Wednesday that the al Qaeda leader was in poor health and was trying to obtain medical attention.
But a U.S. military spokeswoman in Kabul said McGraw had not said that."Colonel McGraw did not say Osama bin Laden was trying to get medical attention," said the spokeswoman, Lieutenant Cindy Moore."We're working with the editor to correct the record," she said of the al Hayat report.
McGraw had been asked by a reporter about an Arabic Web site report several weeks ago saying bin Laden had been wounded. McGraw said he had seen the report, which security experts said lacked credibility, but had no information, Moore said.He was then asked about old reports that bin Laden had suffered from a kidney ailment and McGraw had said bin Laden might have, in the past, sought treatment but he didn't know about now, Moore said.
Moore said McGraw had presented the reporters with no new report about bin Laden.

Posted by tu3031 2005-09-14 11:06|| 2005-09-14 11:06|| Front Page Top

#5 If the Colonial can give medical reports, why can't he make sure they are post mortem?

Posted by Captain America 2005-09-14 11:12|| 2005-09-14 11:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Ref #s 1&4. Hmmmm. Maybe he didn't clear it and is now back tracking. OTOH maybe Al-Hayat's reporter is full of sh*t.

Posted by GK 2005-09-14 11:30|| 2005-09-14 11:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Duh, I always knew he was ill.

Oh, you mean physically ill!

Posted by mmurray821 2005-09-14 11:54|| 2005-09-14 11:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Now US Military is in denial mode ... www.drudgereport.com

Posted by Omort Gloluse2712 2005-09-14 14:11|| 2005-09-14 14:11|| Front Page Top

#9 I bet money that when they find him, he will smell like cat piss and be sick as a dog.

Posted by closedanger">closedanger 2005-09-14 22:58|| 2005-09-14 22:58|| Front Page Top

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