UK’s prime minister reveals he has 2 minor tears in his retina, but no surgery planned

By Danica Kirka, AP
Saturday, October 10, 2009

UK’s Brown reveals he has 2 retina tears

LONDON — Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain disclosed Saturday that an eye examination showed two tears in his right retina — a revelation that could embolden critics who want him to step down before a national election.

Downing Street moved quickly to quash speculation over Brown’s health, issuing the statement only one day after a regular examination at a London eye hospital. Brown’s office said his eyesight remained unchanged and that no operations were planned to address the situation.

“Were there to be any change, he would of course make a further statement,” Brown’s office said in a statement.

Brown, who lost the use of his left eye in a sporting accident when he was a teenager and had surgery to save the sight in the other one, has been dogged by questions about his eyesight in recent months.

During a visit to the United States for the Group of 20 summit, he was forced to deny that he was slowly going blind.

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams had questioned Brown over reports that he was using larger and larger text sizes as his remaining vision declined.

“I had all sorts of operations,” Brown said during the September interview. “I then had one operation on the other eye and that was very successful, so my sight is not at all deteriorating,” he said.

The same month he told the BBC that “it would be a terrible, terrible indictment of our political system if you thought that because someone had this medical issue they couldn’t do their job.”

The September comments came as former Home Secretary Charles Clarke told the London Evening Standard newspaper that he hoped rumors Brown would quit — perhaps on health grounds — would come true.

Brown must call a general election by June 2010. Recent polls overwhelmingly suggest that the opposition Conservative Party will win after 13 years out of power.

British prime ministers rarely disclose details about their health unless they need to take time off work — as in 2004, when Brown’s predecessor Tony Blair had a surgical procedure to correct an irregular heartbeat.

Som Prasad, a consultant ophthalmologist at Arrowe Park Hospital in northwest England, said retinal tears affect 3 percent of people over 40 in Britain, and only occasionally cause serious problems.
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Akhtar Qassimyar, MD
October 27, 2009: 9:58 pm

October 27, 2009
Akhtar Qassimyar, MD
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THE AFGHAN PEOPLE’S RESPONSE TO THE INVADERS’ RUN-OFF DRAMA IN AFGHANISTAN

Afghan people are well-aware of the fact that the current run-off between Hamid Karzai and Abdullah is just a political drama played by the invaders in Afghanistan on the ground that both Karzai and Abdullah are exactly the same twin for the reasons state forth as follows:
1- Both Hamid Karzai and Abdullah are from those warlords who were involved in treason in collaborating with the invaders to occupy Afghanistan in 2001, in the exchange for 70 million dollars given by Bush administration prior to invasion of Afghanistan.
2- Karzai and Abdullah were installed by the foreign invaders as president and foreign minister respectively as soon as Afghanistan was occupied in 2001.
3- Both Hamid Karzai and Abdullah represent the most corrupted Kabul government which is made from the Northern Alliance warlords and drug dealers, and has been supported by the United States and its allies since the invasion in 2001.
4- Both Hamid Karzai and Abdullah represent the Kabul MAFIA government which is directly involved in drug production and drug trafficking in the past eight years and supported by the United States and its allies since the invasion in 2001.
5- Both Hamid Karzai and the self-proclaimed doctor, Mr. Abdullah were poor men before the Afghanistan’s invasion in 2001. Under the watch of the invaders, both Hamid Karzai and Abdullah become multi-millionaires during the past eight years because of their involvement in Afghan drug trafficking and stealing the international aid money pouring to Afghanistan.
6- Both Hamid Karzai and Abdullah are the Washington’s most trusted men who have been working for the interest of invaders in Afghanistan since 2001.
7- Under the watch of their foreign masters, both Hamid Karzai and Abdullah committed felony during the August 20th election on the ground that both were involved in massive election fraud of millions of stolen and fraudulent votes.

Based on the foregoing, both Hamid Karzai and Abdullah should be prosecuted for the major crimes of massive fraud during the August 20th election. Both Hamid Karzai and Abdullah are two felons and do not deserve a run-off.

As common sense, run-off should be held between those two innocent Afghan presidential candidates who acquired the top first and second positions without committing fraud during the August 20th election. But Afghanistan people firmly believe that regardless of the massive election fraud, the run-off drama will be between Hamid karzai and Abdullah, because these two felons are the choice of the invaders to rule the country.

The foreign invaders should realize the fact that the days of either Hamid Karzai or Abdullah government will be numbered as soon as the foreign troops leave Afghanistan and the Northern Alliance warlord government of Kabul will be hidden in caves as they were hidden before the invasion in 2001. So for their own interest, it would be better for the foreign invaders to decrease their imperial greed for Afghanistan in order to make a relatively stable and credible government in Kabul which will be able to stand without the foreign military help. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Akhtar Qassimyar, MD

This letter will be forwarded to President Obama, NATO leaders and other relevant authorities.
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