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Osama bin Laden has died, according to the L'Est republicain
AP France ^ | September 23, 2006

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."


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To: BIGLOOK

Sounds like a bunch very nervous teenagers and old men whistling as they get near a graveyard, walk by it and away from it.


561 posted on 09/23/2006 10:05:17 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic lies/wet dreams posing as news.)
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To: Cobra64

Take it up with Urban Legends -- not me.


562 posted on 09/24/2006 1:26:22 AM PDT by Beckwith (The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: confrico
Hoax. BBC link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5374998.stm .

What's the translation for the newspaper?

563 posted on 09/24/2006 4:11:16 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( Microevolution is real; Macroevolution is not real.)
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To: cardinal4

Hrm - Weekend at Bin Laden's. Good point.


564 posted on 09/24/2006 5:46:21 AM PDT by SlayerOfBunnies (muslims: fix islam, convert to something less violent, or stop your whining.)
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To: SlayerOfBunnies

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?


565 posted on 09/24/2006 10:31:02 AM PDT by docbnj
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To: TexKat

Typhoid, courtesy French special services. :')


566 posted on 09/24/2006 12:26:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Saturday, September 16, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: DTogo

"If you are hiding your sorry butt in a cave, it is harder to get treatment."


567 posted on 09/24/2006 5:29:57 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: PA-RIVER

This wouldn't have happened if we had a single payer system. At least that is what Hillary will say.


568 posted on 09/24/2006 10:53:56 PM PDT by YdontUleaveLibs
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To: docbnj
From your lips to God's ears. :-D
569 posted on 09/25/2006 3:42:17 AM PDT by SlayerOfBunnies (muslims: fix islam, convert to something less violent, or stop your whining.)
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To: Bush_Democrat
I don't know about Franco, but Che is still dead...
That is great! LMAO!
570 posted on 09/25/2006 8:17:21 AM PDT by wjcsux (The #1 issue this election; keep the RATS out!!)
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To: DTogo

That sounds great. Is there anything better than a BLT with fresh garden tomatos?
MMMMMM


571 posted on 09/28/2006 10:43:30 AM PDT by Holicheese (Beerfest could be the greatest movie ever made!)
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