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Chirac: Bin Laden Intel Not Confirmed ~ Saudi's think he died of typhoid...in Aug... in Pakistan
Las Vegas Sun ^ | September 23, 2006 at 9:5:16 PDT | ELAINE GANLEY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 09/23/2006 10:40:20 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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Earlier long thread:

Osama bin Laden has died, according to the L'Est republicain

1 posted on 09/23/2006 10:40:21 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Typhoid? Must have eaten some bad pork.


2 posted on 09/23/2006 10:41:27 AM PDT by stboz
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
To paraphrase a great American: hope, but verify.

Which will be hard to do - since many people carry his DNA.

3 posted on 09/23/2006 10:41:40 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: SierraWasp

Here is the latest I can find.....


4 posted on 09/23/2006 10:41:49 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Salem; river rat; SandRat; wagglebee; ExTexasRedhead; Navy Patriot; ...

If it's true, it won't stop terrorism single-handedly, but it will strike a major financial blow to the radical Islamist cause. And it has major propoganda value.

But there are other rumors out there that he's still alive, although ill.


5 posted on 09/23/2006 10:43:22 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Nihilism is at the heart of Islamic culture)
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To: stboz
Must have eaten some bad pork.

He is bad pork.

6 posted on 09/23/2006 10:44:10 AM PDT by Rocko (" I tried and failed" -- The impeached and disbarred Bill Clinton.)
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To: Rocko; new yorker 77; MikefromOhio; NeoCaveman; Paleo Conservative; A. Pole

"He is bad pork."

Hopefully, he's dead pork.


7 posted on 09/23/2006 10:47:23 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Nihilism is at the heart of Islamic culture)
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To: wideawake

"Which will be hard to do - since many people carry his DNA"

What are you saying here? The only people that have identical DNA are identical twins. And although identical twins have the same genotype, they have different phenotypes. Which is why they can still look slightly different and have different fingerprints.


8 posted on 09/23/2006 10:48:25 AM PDT by stm (Katherine Harris for US Senate!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

In a perfect world, Elvis would be alive and Osama dead.


9 posted on 09/23/2006 10:49:20 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Interesting that so many know the condition of his bowels but not which country he is in.


10 posted on 09/23/2006 10:52:30 AM PDT by Ranger
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Chirac said he was "a bit surprised" at the leak and has asked Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to probe how a document from a French foreign intelligence service was published in the French press. Is Sandy Berger in France or does the N.Y.Times have an office there?
11 posted on 09/23/2006 10:56:08 AM PDT by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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To: Ranger

Is he alive or dead? I haven't seen hard evidence of either.


12 posted on 09/23/2006 10:56:19 AM PDT by umgud
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
n Pakistan, a senior official of that country's top spy agency, the ISI or Directorate of Inter-Service Intelligence, said he had no information to confirm bin Laden's whereabouts or that he might be dead. The official said he believed the report could be fabricated.

Of course Pakistan "poo-poohs" the rumor (no pun intended).

Imagine the hit Pakistan's tourist industry would take if people learned a disease like typhoid or cholera was present and killing rich folks whose best friends are doctors.

13 posted on 09/23/2006 10:58:42 AM PDT by syriacus (How does America spell relief? --- UBL is DOA)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Chirac: Bin Laden Intel Not Confirmed ~ Saudi's think he died of typhoid...in Aug... in Pakistan

Just reported on CNN:

The Saudi intelligence source told CNN's Nic Robertson that there have been credible reports for the past several weeks that bin Laden is ill, but there has been no word of his death.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/23/france.binladen/

14 posted on 09/23/2006 10:58:43 AM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Bin Laden died years ago, likely at Tora Bora.

I don't understand why no one has figured that out. When I say it, people look at me like I'm from Mars.

I tell them to try and think of any possible circumstance where it wouldn't benfit Bin Laden or his organization to publish a photo or video of him holding up yesterday's edition of his favorite newspaper, the NY Times.

The fact that there have been no such photos or videos indicates to me that he is long dead.


15 posted on 09/23/2006 10:58:43 AM PDT by poindexters brother
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

This is good news.However i won't believe it till it's confirmed.


16 posted on 09/23/2006 10:59:10 AM PDT by Thombo2
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To: TexKat
They may have pulled that story you linked to....did find this:

Rumors swirl over bin Laden's fate

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PARIS, France (CNN) -- Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has a water-borne illness, a Saudi intelligence source told CNN on Saturday, a report that conflicts with an article in a French newspaper saying that the man who has been hunted by the United States for the past five years is dead.

The Saudi intelligence source told CNN's Nic Robertson that there have been credible reports for the past several weeks that bin Laden is ill, but there has been no word of his death.

The questions came in response to the publication of a report in the French regional newspaper L'Est Republicain on Saturday.

17 posted on 09/23/2006 11:07:36 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

How many more lives does this cat have?


18 posted on 09/23/2006 11:07:37 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: mtbopfuyn

Can't count till we confirm.....LOL!


19 posted on 09/23/2006 11:08:41 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I suspect Chirac to be false as a Frenchman.


20 posted on 09/23/2006 11:09:16 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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