"God grew tired of us," said Osama binLaden on his second day in custody. Some of the law enforcement officials working on this extremely sensitive case thought binLaden was referring to the film directed by Christopher Quinn, which followed the exploits of three young men who left Africa and ended up in America. These "lost boys" from the Sudan had originally been part of more than 25,000 who had fled their homes to avoid militia terrorists. By 1992, only 10,000 still survived. Fighting disease, starvation, attacks by wild animals and militiamen, it took another ten years before 4,000 of these young men finally withstood all the suffering and were able to move to the United States. The movie won the Grandy Jury Prize at the renowned Sundance Film Festival.
Other investigators believed binLaden meant God was growing tired of all the hatred and war in the world. Perhaps, they surmised, binLaden was ready to surrender his threatening menace to world stability and try a new approach toward peace and understanding. Did binLaden want to use his influence among Muslims to change the course of human events? Was this a sign that there, indeed, was a time for universal joy and peace among men?
Among the analysts, interrogators, psychiatrists, and law enforcement officials tending to binLaden, some thought he meant that God was tired of tolerating all of mankind's sinning, selfishness, and skulduggery.
As part of the 'booking' procedures, binLaden was given a complete physical. Acutely aware of rumors of binLaden's death or illness, doctors provided every possible test and conducted every invasive procedure. binLaden had traversed the globe during his reign as a warrior and a geopolitical leader. His bands of terrorists - and his cunning ability to create "cells" of operatives around the world - had been the model copied by O.U.T.R.A.G.E. when it set its plan in motion to destroy the U.S.A. politically powerful, socially prominent, arrantly wealthy, and eminently celebrated. 'Cells" of revolutionists had been placed around the nation, fully prepared to trigger non-descript cellphones that would detonate strategically-planted explosive devices at the auspicious time: the day of George W. Bush's last "State of the Union" address on January 17, 2008.
Was it possible that binLaden might have picked up some rare disease during his secret travels?
During the examinations, binLaden continued to express his one adamant pronouncement: "God grew tired of us". During the motorcade that escorted him from Orlando to the prison in southern Georgia, it was all binLaden would say. In that eloquent speaking voice so many millions of people had heard on smuggled videotapes that were telecast at appropriate times just to humiliate or criticize George W. Bush, binLaden kept chanting those five words over and over. At times, binLaden became combative and restless; at other times, he seemed defeated and pacified. It was late Sunday night, November 23, 2008 when doctors saw something in his bloodstream that was unrecognizable to them. 'They appear to be some sort of living microism, but nothing that we've ever seen before," explained one of the atending physicians. "Whatever it is, or whereever they came from, we just don't know. It might be something he picked up while living in the jungles or Asia or the desolate caves in Afghanistan. Anyway, it appears to be eating away at his immune system....but, strangely, it's nothing that seems to be making him sick. Whatever it is, I don't think it's terminal. I don't think it will kill him."
By now, rumors were cropping up about binLaden's capture. The Presidential triumverate went in front of the O.U.T.R.A.G.E. cameras to announce that binLaden was in custody, and was under medical care. Powell and McCain declined to say what specific charges might be brought against the internationally-known terrorist, or under whose jurisdiction binLaden would be tried. Obama announced that there would be a daily update on the case as events unfolded, and as more was known. The three U.S. Presidents acknowledged that doctors had discovered a "mysterious health issue", and promised that once more was known, physicians would provide a thorough report. "It's almost midnight," Powell interjected, "I think that's all we can tell you at this time. We'll be back in about twelve hours with our first update."