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From: xikom01 on 18 Jan 2008 16:11
Reports of Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts took a new turn this week
when a Pakistani woman reported sighting a tall man in a white robe
with matching turban hit his head on a low doorway.

The woman's suspicions about the identity of the man were further
aroused when she noticed the entrance led to a recording studio.

So as not to create suspicion, she approached him without revealing
who she thought he might be.

"Are you all right?" she asked, with demur innocence.

"No," he said. "How can I be all right? Besides just cracking my head
on this low doorway, I'm Osama Bin Laden."

"Really?" she replied, thinking of the $25-million reward for turning
him in, as well as her opportunity to contribute to the triumph of
justice.

"Yes" he went on. "I haven't been all right since I fled Tora Bora,
because it's even hard for me to get out long enough to make my
audiotapes."

"My, oh, my," the woman commiserated, "Everybody thinks you're in the
remote regions near the Afghan border."

"You'd think they'd know better," he confided. "How could a spoiled
rich boy like me live this long without some of the comforts only a
city can provide, like a dialysis machine to keep me alive, and
takeout food."

"That makes sense," she agreed.

"Yes, it does, but there's no danger the authorities will figure out
where I am, because every time I record a tape, we filter out the
sounds of the city, like

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