Friday, January 22, 2010

Where is Osama?

I read the article "The Conspiracy: Osama Bin Laden, Dead or Alive?" by Mike Rudin from BBC News. According to the Conspiracy Files Documentary, Bin Laden has been sick with kidney disease for a while and is supposedly dead. Some leading news organizations even back the kidney disease claim. According to the French newspaper, Le Figaro, and Radio France International, Bin Laden was given emergency kidney dialysis in the American Hospital in Dubai while CBS states he had the same treatment at the Pakistan Military Hospital in Rawalpindi prior to September 11th. Both hospitals deny these accusations. No one can really be sure where he is because there is never a decent trail to come up with anything related to Bin Laden's whereabouts. A former CIA officer named Bruce Riedel says that the United States has not had eyes on a specific target in eight years. Despite his prominence in the past, not much about Bin Laden has been mentioned in the media. To be the most wanted man in the universe, it seems like the only person that knows where Osama Bin Laden is is Osama Bin Laden. Supposedly, these claims of Bin Laden's death originate in smaller newspapers, such as the Pakistan Observer. This newspaper claimed that Bin Laden had died due to lung complications at the end of 2001 and was buried somewhere in the mountains of Eastern Afghanistan. As soon as that article was released, the world picked it up. Hamid Mir, the last man to interview Bin Laden, says that these conspiracy theories are actually benefiting Bin Laden. Who is to say whether or not this man is dead or alive? Will the world ever locate this man or will he die as a ghost? Personally, I have no idea what to think about Osama Bin Laden. He has a terrible record and all but what can be done about a man that no one can find. No one has even a hint or a guess about where this man can be. I guess if he does not want to be found then he won't be.

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