Al-Qaeda Leadership

Via the War in Context, I see a report that Osama bin Laden's health is declining rapidly and for several months he has been hooked continuously to a dialysis machine. The informant in the article, described as, "an operative close to the al-Qaeda leadership," also claimed that financial control of the group is now primarily in the hands of Tahir Yuldashev, founder of the once-crushed Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.