Reports of Osama Bin Ladens 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, Im 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 havent been all right since I fled Tora Bora, because its even hard for me to get out long enough to make my audiotapes.
My, oh, my, the woman commiserated, Everybody thinks youre in the remote regions near the Afghan border.
Youd think theyd 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...