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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LPS5 who wrote (8804)	11/1/2004 4:47:53 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20039

LPS5 > Is he ill or is he well? Whom to believe? The truth of such whispers will be impossible to determine until bin Laden is captured and can be examined. However, at this point, it would not be unreasonable to conclude that he is troubled by unspecified renal problems. I'm sure no-one can argue with that, which is, in fact, my position that anything purporting to come from bin Laden must be treated with reservation. He may still be alive or he may be dead. We just don't know. But the point I also make is that the kidney disease/dialysis story must have some substance (indeed Musharraf confirms it). Dialysis is usually given for end-stage renal disease from many causes. To perform, it requires sterility and technical support eg for blood tests. In other words, the environment in which it is conducted must be relatively sophisticated and definitely hygienic and with electricity, running water and proper sewage facilities. One would also expect specialist medical personnel to be available, certainly to manage the underlying disease and to control therapy. Drugs and fluids for the dialysis would also be required. It is because I very much doubt that such facilities are available to someone who, we understand, is on the run somewhere in a remote part of Afghanistan or Pakistan, that I do not believe bin Laden's prognosis would have been good. In other words, if did have renal disease which required dialysis, he would most probably be dead now.