It was exactly noon on Monday, November 24, 2008 when Colin Powell, John McCain, and Barack Obama appeared before the O.U.T.R.A.G.E. television cameras in St. Kitts. Via satellite, they had linked to the local television station nearest the prison where Osama binLaden was being held. A bevy of doctors and hospital administrators, all anxious for their 'fifteen minutes of fame', stood before a bank of microphones. The Chief of Staff at Brunswick General Hospital introduced herself, then made a brief opening statement: "Osama binLaden was brought here to our facility from the Federal Correctional Institute in Jesup. After exhaustive tests and detailed procedures, we were unable to make any substantive determinations or diagnosis. For further examination, we have transferred the prisoner to the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, where he will undergo more tests." Questions about binLaden's test results were answered, but baguely. It was apparent that the Brunswick doctors were ill-equipped to deal with whatever illness binLaden suffered. From the press conference, more information was gleaned: binLaden had call authorities and asked to be taken into custody, complaining of bizarre pains and hallucinations. "It was obvious when authorities arrived," McCain interjected, "that he was seriously ill." The law enforcement officials who transported him to the prison site described how binLaden repeatedly kept chanting, "God grew tired of us" without further explanation or insight. Fluent in multiple languages, binLaden spoke those five words in English. Any other conversation - which was minimal - was spoken in Arabic, which the law officers couldn't understand.
The correctional institute in Jesup, Georgia is a small facility 65 miles southwest of Savannah. Doctors explained that binLaden was taken to Brunswick General Hospital because of its close proximity to the prison - only forty miles away. After thorough examination, it was determined that binLaden's illness was beyond the scope of expertise in Brunswick, and the decision was made in the middle of the night to ship the alleged terrorist to the CDC in Atlanta. Doctors suspected binLaden was suffering from some strange disease that he may have contracted during his clandestine travels.
Obama ended the televised press conference by saying that another update would be broadcast in twenty-four hours. "Hopefully," he said, "we will have more significant information at that time." The O.U.T.R.A.G.E. broadcasting center went back to its usual fare of standard information and news about what was going on around the nation.
Meanwhile, O.U.T.R.A.G.E. officials were focusing on a judicial procedure for binLaden's trial. Remember, most federal judges and almost every lawyer in the country had been wiped out by O.U.T.R.A.G.E. bombs. Many that had survived that onslaught succumbed to the natural disasters that followed. America had little left of its pompous court and legal system; attorneys and judges were judged to be "part of the problem" in America, and O.U.T.R.A.G.E. had effectively eliminated most of them. This would be the first "high profile" legal case to come before a court of law since the January 17th massacres. There was no longer a U.S. Supreme Court with pretentious overpaid justices who were more politically motivated than they were concerned with the U.S. Constitution and our Bill of Rights. Could binLaden get a fair trial in the United States? Could binLaden even get a competent trial at this perilous juncture in U.S. jurisprudence?
Obviously, there was time to sort all this out while physicians tried to figure out what was wrong with binLaden. O.U.T.R.A.G.E. legal experts were handed their most important challenge yet: figure out how binLaden will be tried.