CIA/Pentagon Reports Say Bin Laden May Be Dying From Kidney Disease - Kill ‘em! Quick!
This from Time, consider the source, glean the basic facts, form your own conclusions…
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 tell TIME. The agency ostensibly managed to get the names of some of the medications bin Laden is taking, and 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.”
That prognosis, along with some on-the-ground intelligence and a well-aimed Hellfire missile, will get you a dead terrorist leader. Close watchers of the al-Qaeda terror network find such reports inherently unreliable. “It’s trying to make a diagnosis from thousands of miles away with only fragments of the medical chart,” says Paul Pillar, former top analyst and deputy director of the CIA’s counterterrorism center, who now teaches at Georgetown University.
Says Frances Fragos Townsend, who stepped down last November as chief of President George W. Bush’s Homeland Security Council, “I’ve read all the same conflicting reports [on bin Laden’s health] that people have talked to you about. I never found one set of reporting more persuasive than another.”
The CIA, for its part, is disavowing the claims attributed to the report. “I have found no one here familiar with this alleged report or the analytic line it supposedly conveys,” says Paul Gimigliano, a CIA spokesman. “The fact that anonymous sources attribute views to the CIA is not, by itself, reason to believe the agency actually holds those views,” he says.
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Shoot him in the kidneys.
July 1st, 2008 at 10:54 amYou know, kidney disease causes thinking problems because the toxins aren’t being cleaned out of the blood–so the mind can be clouded, irritable, irrational. Maybe 9/11 was thunk up because his kidneys weren’t functioning properly? It could be a legal defense for him when Obama puts him on trial in federal court, as he has said he wants to do, with his newly acquired “rights” via the Supreme Court.
July 1st, 2008 at 11:34 am