Fw: BIN LADEN MET WITH CIA IN JULY

["Nello Margiotta" <animarg at tin.it>]

 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.