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A Pakistani doctor on Thursday said he saw Osama bin Laden last November and that the Al Qaeda leader was in "excellent health".
"He was walking; he was healthy," Dr Amir Aziz was quoted as saying.
Aziz, a British-trained orthopaedic surgeon, said he was summoned to a meeting in November 2001 in Kabul. He was asked to treat top Al Qaeda leader Mohammed Atef, who was later killed along with seven others in an American attack. Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, were present.
He said Laden showed no signs of the kidney failure that he was reported to be suffering from. "I didn't see any evidence of dialysis."
The doctor said he had treated Laden in 1999 also, when the Al Qaeda leader had hurt his back after falling off a horse in southern Afghanistan.
Aziz was recently held incommunicado and interrogated for a month by US officials.
Agencies
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