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An old article published in CNN on Jan 18, 2002 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's president says he thinks Osama bin Laden is most likely dead because the suspected terrorist has been unable to get treatment for his kidney disease. "I think now, frankly, he is dead for the reason he is a ... kidney patient," Gen. Pervez Musharraf said on Friday in an interview with CNN. Musharraf said Pakistan knew bin Laden took two dialysis machines into Afghanistan. "One was specifically for his own personal use," he said. "I don't know if he has been getting all that treatment in Afghanistan now. And the photographs that have been shown of him on television show him extremely weak. ... I would give the first priority that he is dead and the second priority that he is alive somewhere in Afghanistan." U.S. officials skeptical In Washington, a senior Bush administration official said Musharraf reached "reasonable conclusion" but warned it is only...

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How Safe Are Our Nukes? (read what a prominent Indian is thinking now) I shiver and sweat at the thought of what is waiting to happen tomorrow and where . The mind boggles as one tries to think and figure out how the terrorists could have planned and carried out terrorist strikes of such magnitude, territorial spread and ferocity without our intelligence and police having been able to get scent of it by B. Raman B. Raman is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi,and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai "The war of civilisation between the Muslims and the infidels has begun in Indian territory." So said the first statement issued in the name of the so-called Indian Mujahideen (IM) in November, 2007, after the three orchestrated explosions in three towns of Uttar Pradesh outside local courts. We saw the latest round of this war in Mumbai on the night of November 26, 2008, as an unestimated number of terrorists--di...

Ban refrains from comment on Obama's hot pursuit statement November 6th, 2008 - 12:53 am ICT by IANS United Nations, Nov 5 (IANS) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday refrained from commenting on US president-elect Barack Obama's election campaign statements about hot pursuit of terrorists inside Pakistan ." I would refrain from making any positions on the part of the United Nations on any specific issues involving the questions that you have raised, " Ban told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York when specifically asked about the world body's position on Obama's statements. During his campaign Obama said if the US had any actionable intelligence on the presence of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan, his administration would go ahead and strike out such places inside Pakistani territories with or without Pakistani consent. The UN secretary general hoped that the president-elect would engage various leaders of the world and also parti...