Bin Laden Died From Wounds Suffered In Tora Bora Air Raid, Says Arab Expert

Independent (UK) ^ | 5-10-2003 | John Lichfield

[visualops]

Wasn't this a still from that video?

I remember it seeming like he was leaning and about to fall over.

[secret garden]

Just as expected. Dead. Too bad he wasn't an American hiker. They know how to amputate their own limbs.

[ellery]

Here's a link to another article about this -- more detailed but a pretty bad google translation :-) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/908608/posts

And here's the picture:

[Calpernia]

I AGREE! Matter of fact, JUST because a Frenchie says he is dead...makes me think OBL is hiding in France. I, personally, thought he was dead until THIS article came out.

My idea of counter terrorism :P

[ex-Texan]

Rumors from France are to ignored automatically. Nothing new here. Time to move on. Frankly, I believe OBL escaped from Tora Bora disguised as a very tall woman. Later he was gang raped by eight Tali-bunnies and left for dead in the mountains.

[Ole Okie]

Just because a Frenchie says he is dead doesn't mean that he is not dead.

But you can tell a Frog ain't dead by the white flag he's waving.

[MediaMole]

If true, bin Laden died a slow, lingering, and hopefully painful death, as one organ after another shut down.

For some reason this thought leaves me with a warm, fuzzy, happy feeling inside.

[lilylangtree]

"Ghislaine Alleaume, a historian and Arabist at the French national research centre"

French and an Arabist???? There's an old saying re rumors that goes: "Believe nothing what you hear and half of what you see." Until undeniable proof surfaces, don't believe it.

[zarf]

French expert? Must mean he's alive and living on a sheep farm outside of Helena MT.

[liberalnot]

sucha shame!

i'm really upset. (/s)

[Joe Bonforte]

Just because a Frenchie says he is dead doesn't mean that he is not dead.

True, but if a Frenchman said a horse had four legs, I'd count 'em to make sure.

[woofie]

The last time I saw him he looked pretty dead

[Leo Carpathian]

The safest way of stopping the search for the most wanted, is to proclaim him dead. Just like Hitler did.

[wattsup]

French Expert = oxymoron

[kevao]

DEBKA: French Granted OBL European Passport in Damascus on May 7

[Jewels1091]

I have heard that gangrene is a bad way to go.....

[Higgymonster]

Had a French person determined that Bin Laden had surrendered, that would be believable. Who has more experience at surrender than the French?

[lainde]

And, an American has totally disproven the amputation theory...Emphasis on a God-fearing American!