HONG KONG -- Asiaweek magazine said Thursday that exiled Saudi Arabian dissident Osama bin Laden is dying of kidney failure.
The weekly news magazine, quoting "a Western intelligence source who has been tracking him," said in its latest edition the kidney disease had begun to affect bin Laden's liver and associates were trying to obtain a dialysis machine to stabilize his condition.The United States has accused bin Laden of leading a "terrorist" network and masterminding the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed more than 200 people.
Asiaweek said bin Laden, 45, who is in Afghanistan, remained mostly conscious and was able to talk and hold meetings. But "the man is dying," Asiaweek quoted the source as saying.