Qaeda Chief May Die Within 6 Months, Magazine Says

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Boston — Al Qaeda’s leader, Osama bin Laden, may die of kidney disease within the next six months, Time magazine reported, citing two unidentified American officials.

The amount of drugs the terrorist leader is taking to combat the disease led the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to conclude in a report that he has between six and 18 months to live, the magazine said, citing one of the officials who has seen the report.

The CIA has denied the existence of the report or its conclusions, Time said, citing an agency spokesman, Paul Gimigliano.

Such reports are unreliable because they are trying to make a diagnosis with only fragments of information from thousands of miles away, Time said, citing Paul Pillar, a former CIA analyst and deputy director of its counterterrorism center, who now teaches at Georgetown University in Washington.

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This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.


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