Typhoid.

[Brundle_Fly]

Cured by Penicillin.

kills Bin Laden? Please.

[WindRavenX]

1. in many places in the world, penicillin is not readily available

Just keep that in mind...

[Brundle_Fly]

2. you'd think they'd have a pretty extensive med kit.

no?

[WindRavenX]

3. I'm not sure

The level of preparedness of Bin Laden seems suspect at times-- it wouldn't surprise me if something as basic as this was forgotten.

[Brundle_Fly]

4. are you kidding?

Helps defeats Soviet Army....
Is well on way to defeating US Army, and Nato Forces....
Conducts the largest Terrorist Attack ever, and several others around the globe...

Lives in a Cave with a dialysis machine...for ch****t's sake.

but they don't have a cure for a completely common local disease.

[Warpy]

5. They do, but poor people can't afford it

so that lets bin Laden out.

Face it, if he's dead, he's bin dead a lo-o-ong time and it wasn't from anything curable with penicillin.

[merci_me]

6. He's been physically ill for years

and required kidney dialysis. In that case, possibly nothing could have counteracted typhoid, IF any of this is true.