Aziz had been paying visits to
Afghanistan to treat
mujahideen fighters since the
Soviet Union invaded the country in 1979. Aziz was seized by American security officials on 21 October 2002, held, and interrogated by officers of both the
FBI and the
CIA. Aziz refuted the speculation that bin Laden was suffering from kidney disease or some other serious ailment. He claimed that he had examined bin Laden on two occasions, first in 1999 and then in November 2001. In 2005, the
Los Angeles Times reported that Aziz had traveled to perform emergency medical work when remote, Pakistani-controlled
Kashmir was hit by an
earthquake that killed 86,000 people. They reported on tensions between him and US forces, who were also providing emergency services, due to his known past association with Islamists. His field hospital was in a camp run by the
Jamaat-ud-Dawa—a group associated with
Lashkar e taiba. ==References==