HunterByrd

If bin Laden has bitten the dust, it is more likely because of kidney failure than from thermo-baric bombs at Tora Bora. Bin Laden has an ailment that requires dialysis three or four times a week, at 4-5 hours a session. Treatment like this is tough to get in your typical Afghan cave.

This is why I believe that if bin Laden is still alive, he mostly likely is in Iran. If he were somewhere where he could be sheltered by the state, he could get the medical care that would be tough to obtain if he were constantly on the run.

If bin Laden is in Iran, he has lots of company, according to the newspaper Asharq al Awsat. The Saudi-owned London-based daily reported on July 15 that nearly 400 members of al Qaeda, including 18 of its top leaders, have taken refuge in Iran, chiefly near the town of Chalous on the Caspian Sea coast, about 60 miles north of Tehran.

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If bin Laden is in Iran, it means that the heavy lifting has yet to be done in the war on terrorism, and the axis of evil is more tightly knit than many suppose. Chalous, the town where the al Qaeda hierarchy is said to have taken refuge, is, according to Global Security.Org, "the locale of an underground nuclear weapons facility staffed by experts from Russia, China and North Korea."

// posted by HunterByrd @ 6:06 AM