Fact Checker
2004-09-24 04:59:47 UTC
Osama bin Laden is dead. Pakistan's president says he thinks
Osama is most likely dead because the suspected terrorist has
been unable to get treatment for his kidney disease.
[A Bush administration official] said U.S. intelligence is that
bin Laden needs dialysis every three days and "it is fairly
obvious that that could be an issue when you are running from
place to place, and facing the idea of needing to generate
electricity in a mountain hideout."
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/01/18/gen.musharraf.binladen/
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Bin Laden would need help if on dialysis Renal
dialysis -- talking about hemodialysis -- is something that
really is reserved for patients in end-stage renal failure. That
means their kidneys have just completely shut down.
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/01/21/gupta.otsc/
The most common cause of something like that would be something
like diabetes and hypertension. Once that's happened, if you're
separated from your dialysis machine -- and incidentally,
dialysis machines require electricity, they're going to require
clean water, they're going to require a sterile setting --
infection is a huge risk with that. If you don't have all those
things and a functioning dialysis machine, it's unlikely that
you'd survive beyond several days or a week at the most.
Magazine runs what it calls bin Laden's will The editor-in-chief
of a London-based Arab news magazine said a purported will it
published Saturday was written late last year [2001] by Osama bin
Laden, and shows "he's dying or he's going to die soon."
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/01/21/gupta.otsc/
Bin Laden's voice was detected regularly until [14 December 2001]
by intelligence operatives monitoring radio transmissions in Tora
Bora, according to the Pentagon.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/16/wtora16.xml
Since then, nothing has been heard from the al-Qa'eda leader and
President Bush has hinted in private that bin Laden's silence
could mean he has been killed. [Telegraph]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/28/wbin28.xml
Translation of Funeral Article in Egyptian Paper:
al-Wafd, Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Vol 15 No 4633
News of Bin Laden's Death and Funeral 10 days ago
http://www.welfarestate.com/binladen/funeral/
A prominent official in the Afghan Taleban movement announced
yesterday the death of Osama bin Laden, the chief of al-Qa'da
organization, stating that binLaden suffered serious
complications in the lungs and died a natural and quiet death.
Karzai: bin Laden 'probably' dead Osama bin Laden is "probably"
dead, but former Taliban leader Mullah Omar is alive, Afghan
President Hamid Karzai has said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/10/06/karzai.binladen/
Bin Laden 'probably' dead The US Federal Bureau of
Investigation's counter-terrorism chief, Dale Watson, says he
thinks Osama bin Laden is "probably" dead.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2135473.stm
Bin Laden could be ill or dead - US A taped message by Osama bin
Laden that aired on Al-Jazeera television suggests the al-Qaeda
leader is ill and could be dead, US analysts told Knight-Ridder
newspapers.
http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/272280.htm
Israeli intelligence: Bin Laden is dead, heir has been chosen
Israeli sources said Israel and the United States assess that Bin
Laden probably died in the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan
in December. They said the emergence of new messages by Bin Laden
are probably fabrications, Middle East Newsline reported.
http://216.26.163.62/2002/me_terrorism_10_16.html
Swiss scientists 95% sure that Bin Laden recording was fake
Scientists in Switzerland say they are almost certain that an
audio tape attributed to Osama bin Laden is a fake.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,851112,00.html
Osama bin who? Israel does not view bin Laden as a threat.
http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/fr/fr021227_1_n.shtml
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a
revolutionary act." [George Orwell]
"The enemy of the moment always represent[s] absolute evil."
http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/2.html
"[...] are alert that evil folks still lurk out there. [...] We
will rid the world of the evil-doers."
[George W. Bush, 16 Sept 2001]
"[...] since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter
whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is
that a state of war should exist."
http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/16.html
"War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the
stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials
which might otherwise be used to make the masses [...] in the
long run, too intelligent."
http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/16.html
Osama is most likely dead because the suspected terrorist has
been unable to get treatment for his kidney disease.
[A Bush administration official] said U.S. intelligence is that
bin Laden needs dialysis every three days and "it is fairly
obvious that that could be an issue when you are running from
place to place, and facing the idea of needing to generate
electricity in a mountain hideout."
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/01/18/gen.musharraf.binladen/
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Bin Laden would need help if on dialysis Renal
dialysis -- talking about hemodialysis -- is something that
really is reserved for patients in end-stage renal failure. That
means their kidneys have just completely shut down.
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/01/21/gupta.otsc/
The most common cause of something like that would be something
like diabetes and hypertension. Once that's happened, if you're
separated from your dialysis machine -- and incidentally,
dialysis machines require electricity, they're going to require
clean water, they're going to require a sterile setting --
infection is a huge risk with that. If you don't have all those
things and a functioning dialysis machine, it's unlikely that
you'd survive beyond several days or a week at the most.
Magazine runs what it calls bin Laden's will The editor-in-chief
of a London-based Arab news magazine said a purported will it
published Saturday was written late last year [2001] by Osama bin
Laden, and shows "he's dying or he's going to die soon."
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/01/21/gupta.otsc/
Bin Laden's voice was detected regularly until [14 December 2001]
by intelligence operatives monitoring radio transmissions in Tora
Bora, according to the Pentagon.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/16/wtora16.xml
Since then, nothing has been heard from the al-Qa'eda leader and
President Bush has hinted in private that bin Laden's silence
could mean he has been killed. [Telegraph]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/28/wbin28.xml
Translation of Funeral Article in Egyptian Paper:
al-Wafd, Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Vol 15 No 4633
News of Bin Laden's Death and Funeral 10 days ago
http://www.welfarestate.com/binladen/funeral/
A prominent official in the Afghan Taleban movement announced
yesterday the death of Osama bin Laden, the chief of al-Qa'da
organization, stating that binLaden suffered serious
complications in the lungs and died a natural and quiet death.
Karzai: bin Laden 'probably' dead Osama bin Laden is "probably"
dead, but former Taliban leader Mullah Omar is alive, Afghan
President Hamid Karzai has said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/10/06/karzai.binladen/
Bin Laden 'probably' dead The US Federal Bureau of
Investigation's counter-terrorism chief, Dale Watson, says he
thinks Osama bin Laden is "probably" dead.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2135473.stm
Bin Laden could be ill or dead - US A taped message by Osama bin
Laden that aired on Al-Jazeera television suggests the al-Qaeda
leader is ill and could be dead, US analysts told Knight-Ridder
newspapers.
http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/272280.htm
Israeli intelligence: Bin Laden is dead, heir has been chosen
Israeli sources said Israel and the United States assess that Bin
Laden probably died in the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan
in December. They said the emergence of new messages by Bin Laden
are probably fabrications, Middle East Newsline reported.
http://216.26.163.62/2002/me_terrorism_10_16.html
Swiss scientists 95% sure that Bin Laden recording was fake
Scientists in Switzerland say they are almost certain that an
audio tape attributed to Osama bin Laden is a fake.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,851112,00.html
Osama bin who? Israel does not view bin Laden as a threat.
http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/fr/fr021227_1_n.shtml
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a
revolutionary act." [George Orwell]
"The enemy of the moment always represent[s] absolute evil."
http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/2.html
"[...] are alert that evil folks still lurk out there. [...] We
will rid the world of the evil-doers."
[George W. Bush, 16 Sept 2001]
"[...] since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter
whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is
that a state of war should exist."
http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/16.html
"War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the
stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials
which might otherwise be used to make the masses [...] in the
long run, too intelligent."
http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/16.html
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Raven Cecil
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Raven Cecil