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."
Sounds like a bunch very nervous teenagers and old men whistling as they get near a graveyard, walk by it and away from it.
Take it up with Urban Legends -- not me.
What's the translation for the newspaper?
Hrm - Weekend at Bin Laden's. Good point.
It'still unconfirmed.
Typhoid is a worse death than being shot or blown up. It means that he was probably living in really squalid conditions: no toilet paper, no washing of hands.
If he is really dead, his followers will try to make it seem heroic, but I can't think of a much worse, and less heroic way to go. He plotted, but he never actually faced armed Western infidels, and hid out like a rat. And then he got fed some food with fecal contamination. His intestines could have become perforated, so that he would die of peritonitis; or his spleen could have burst, so that he would die of internal bleeding. Or the simple fever may have taken him, after days of stupor alternating with delirium.
If we had captured him, we would have had to give him medical treatment, which would be a useless misallocation of scarce resources very much needed elsewhere in the Third World.
Maybe providence has been on our side in this case.
Will the French blame us for hounding this "cleric" to his death?
Typhoid, courtesy French special services. :')
"If you are hiding your sorry butt in a cave, it is harder to get treatment."
This wouldn't have happened if we had a single payer system. At least that is what Hillary will say.
That sounds great. Is there anything better than a BLT with fresh garden tomatos?
MMMMMM
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