"Osama bin Laden is trying to obtain medical attention," Colonel Don McGraw, director of operations at the Combined Forces Command in Kabul, tells a group of reporters.
A report in the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat says, "He (McGraw) refused to say what the Al-Qaida leader is suffering from or whether it is the same kidney disease which Pakistani officials said in the past he was suffering from."
Al-Hayat says it is not clear how the U.S. military obtained its information or where it thought bin Laden might be.
The Saudi-born militant is believed to have taken refuge somewhere on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan after escaping coalition troops in 2001, reports Reuters.
The United States holds Al-Qaida responsible for the suicide attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001.
