Kidney Failure may have done what the yanks couldn't!

The word on the street is that Osama bin Laden maybe dead - primarily based on a potentially spurious piece of 'intellegence' and backed up by the fact that he has not been seen or heard from for about a year.

A terrorism expert says he has seen evidence showing that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is either seriously ill or dead.

Dr Clive Williams, director of terrorism studies at the Australian National University, says documents provided by an Indian colleague suggest bin Laden died of massive organ failure in April last year.

"It does seem reasonably convincing based on the evidence that I've been provided with that he's certainly either severely incapacitated or dead at this stage," Dr Williams told ABC radio. He said that Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's deputy who was the target of a United States air strike in Pakistan last week, had been making all statements on behalf of the terror network for the past year.

Whether this is true or not - I don't know. But my question has always been (and many others have asked) - 'how hard can it be to find a 6ft 4 Arab on dialysis!?!?