Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is in poor health and is seeking medical attention, the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayatsaid today, quoting a US officer in Afghanistan.
"Osama bin Laden is trying to obtain medical attention," Colonel Don McGraw, director of operations at the Combined Forces Command in Kabul, told a group of British reporters, including one from al-Hayat, it said.
"He (McGraw) refused to say what the al-Qaeda leader is suffering from or whether it is the same kidney disease which Pakistani officials said in the past he was suffering from," the newspaper added.
Al-Hayatsaid it was not clear how the US military had obtained its information or where it thought bin Laden might be. The Saudi-born militant is believed to have taken refuge somewhere on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
