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To: invictus who wrote (47168)	1/28/2002 11:53:59 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 65232

Bin Laden Underwent Dialysis in September - CBS Mon Jan 28, 8:47 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden underwent clandestine kidney dialysis in a Pakistani military hospital the day before members of his al Qaeda network launched attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Pakistani intelligence sources told CBS News in a report aired on Monday. Bin Laden, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, received the treatment at a military hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, the source told CBS. A hospital nurse told CBS that the hospital's urology department was cleared of its usual staff and replaced with another group of medical workers. "It was a treatment for a very special person," said the nurse, who declined to be identified. "The special team was obviously up to no good." Another hospital employee told CBS he saw a "mysterious" man being helped out of a car. "He is the man we know as Osama bin Laden. I also heard two army officers talking to each other," said the man, who also requested anonymity. "They were saying to each other that Osama bin Laden has to be watched carefully and looked after." Hospital officials and the Pakistani government denied the reports. Bin Laden has not been seen since December, when he released a videotaped message to al-Jazeera television that appeared to have been recorded in early to mid December. Earlier this month, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the United States has no way of knowing whether bin Laden had died of kidney problems but added that President Bush would not view that as "an unwelcome event." Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has said bin Laden may have died of a kidney ailment. "The photographs ... show him extremely weak," Musharraf told CNN. "He is a kidney patient and I know that he has donated two dialysis machines to Afghanistan and one was specifically for his own personal use." In November, the Saudi daily newspaper al-Watan said bin Laden had ordered his aides to kill him if he risked falling into the hands of U.S. troops. Washington launched airstrikes on Afghanistan in October to flush out bin Laden and punish his Taliban protectors after the September attacks that killed more than 3,000 people.