It was the Army, not the Marines.
Posted on 09/22/2006 10:33:45 PM PDT by confrico
PARIS (AP) - The head of terrorist network al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, has died, according to information from the Saudi police, transmitted by the Directorate-General of External Services (DGSE), and reported on the Lorraine daily newspaper L'Est republicain in its Saturday edition.
"According to a commonly reliable source, the Saudi police believes that Osama Bin Laden has died," said a September 21st confidential note from the DGSE classified as "defense." L'Est republicain will publish it in its Saturday edition. The note, specified the daily newspaper, would be re-printed "un-edited."
According to the note to be published by the L'Est republicain, the Saudi police "would try to obtain more details, in particular the location of the burial site, and then announce the news officially." The DGSE specified in the note that no "jihadist Internet site has for the moment been made aware of the death of Osama bin Laden."
According to the note, "the head of al Qaeda may have fallen victim to a strong case of typhoid fever while in Pakistan, on August 23, 2006," and may have died within a matter of days.
The French news organization transmitted this note to the President of France, to the Defense and Prime Minister and the Ministers of the Interior Department on September 21, according to the regional daily newspaper, which added that a prior note transmitted on September 19th to the leaders of France explained why the Saudi police "sought to confirm the death of Osama bin Laden."
And others have mentioned THIS...if he dies from living in a remote area where he doesn't get the best medical treatment and perhaps there are harsh conditions, the whole reason for that would be that we were on his trail, relentlessly, and he dared not do otherwise.
Therefore, it is the same as if WE got him.
Who cares about the captured part, anyway? That would just give the imbeciles something to yell about whether we were treating him well. Spare us such an outcome...
I was wondering and mulling the other day about some covert folks working up a program whereby ALL dialysis machines have some sort of tiny locator implanted.
Do the GPS thing, find the one in the hills of Pakistan, and go get him!
Wishful thinking is no way to fight a war.
"HAHAHAHAHA! Maybe he'd weigh in about bagged spinach, too."
Maybe he was eating bagged spinach. Maybe he had a thing for American grown organic spinach.
Maybe he gets it delivered along with the New York Times.
But concealing the fact that he's long since dead is a brilliant way to fight this war!
Agreed. I have no insider info on his situation, but the things you have outlined above have convinced me of his death. Keep in mind, these are the same people that paraded that dead baby around a couple of months ago. The interesting thing about it is that it has been kept under wraps for so long..
Thursday, 14 Sept. 2006,
De Villepin says France is under terrorist threat
Friday, 15 Sept. 2006
French report: Bin Laden died in Pakistan
Saturday 23 Sept , 2006
Chirac says report of bin Laden 'death' unconfirmed
Saturday 23 Sept, 2006
Show me a video of UBL talking about Nutjob's UN visit while standing up on his own power in front of a TV showing Al Jazeera's coverage of the address and holding up todays NYT, and I will take it all back. Scratchy audio of some Al-Qaeda foot soldier wont convince me. He's dead, Jim..
George Noory read this article on Coast last night. He said behorehand that his French was not good and wow! did he prove it.
It was the Army, not the Marines.
I have a better translation of the French Article at http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2006/09/bin_ladens_death_sad.html
I haven't looked at the end of the thread yet... Is he still dead today??? (grin)
Dan Rather is on his way to a Kinko's right now to retrieve the Reuters photographs. But we all know that he will spend months verifying the authenticity, and making certain there was no Photoshop trickery ;)
If true, how ironic. Had we captured him, we would have provided him the best medical care for his typhoid fever.
Then we'd execute him.
Again????
A null hypothesis is assumed to be true (he's alive) until there is overwhelming evidence for the alternative hypothesis (he's dead).
If our generals thought the way you do, they'd all be relieved of command.
Do you know where your local Algeria's Salafist Group is today?
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