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Quote: From Gary North's
Fri Nov 2 13:03:40 2001


Wednesday October 31, 12:03 PM

Bin Laden underwent treatment in July at Dubai American
Hospital


Osama bin Laden underwent treatment in July at the American
Hospital in Dubai where he met a US Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) official, French daily Le Figaro and Radio
France International reported.

Quoting "a witness, a professional partner of the
administrative management of the hospital," they said the
man suspected by the United States of being behind the
September 11 terrorist attacks had arrived in Dubai on July
4 by air from Quetta, Pakistan.

He was immediately taken to the hospital for kidney
treatment. He left the establishment on July 14, Le Figaro
said.

During his stay, the daily said, the local CIA
representative was seen going into bin Laden's room and "a
few days later, the CIA man boasted to some friends of
having visited the Saudi-born millionaire."

Quoting "an authoritative source," Le Figaro and the radio
station said the CIA representative had been recalled to
Washington on July 15.

Bin Laden has been sought by the United States for
terrorism since the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya
and Tanzania in 1998. But his CIA links go back before
that to the fight against Soviet forces in Afghanistan.

Le Figaro said bin Laden was accompanied in Dubai by his
personal physician and close collaborator, who could be the
Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahari, as well as bodyguards and an
Algerian nurse.

He was admitted to the urology department of Doctor Terry
Callaway, who specializes in kidney stones and male
infertility. Telephoned several times, the doctor declined
to answer questions.

Several sources had reported that bin Laden had a serious
kidney infection. He had a mobile dialysis machine sent to
his Kandahar hideout in Afghanistan in the first half of
2000, according to "authoritative sources" quoted by Le
Figaro and RFI.

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