- (AFP) - 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.
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- 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.
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- He was immediately taken to the hospital for kidney treatment.
He left the establishment on July 14, Le Figaro said.
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- 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."
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- Quoting "an authoritative source," Le Figaro
and the radio station said the CIA representative had been recalled to
Washington on July 15.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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