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

AP France ^ | September 23, 2006

[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."

[rwfromkansas]

The public will give Bush credit for killing him, even if he died of disease.

Why? It happened under his watch. It doesn't really matter why as when.

[ApplegateRanch]

If true, I'll celebrate with a BLT.

I'll take my BLT between two slices of ham, instead of bread; dipped & fried, Monte Christo style.
Freedom fries cooked in lard on the side

[A CA Guy]

Right, don't forget that Bush sent the American military in and those Middle Easterners didn't get shots against the diseases we carry, so probably some heroic soldier's disease eventually killed Osama Bib Laden.

Way to go!

[REDWOOD99]

Sorry, honey! Poppin' a Pyramid Apricot Weizen for ya now!

[Dallas59]

[OKIEDOC]

I guess everyone knows that Muslims wipe their butts with the left hand.

Thats why they call most of the Muslim Middle East "The Turd World".

[REDWOOD99]

Those "Turd World" remarks will just inflame the muzzies. Next, they'll threaten to kill the poop.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Ok everyone, lets start connecting the dots here... I do find it a coincidence that Musharraf is here.

[ET(end tyranny)]

Is it possible to deliver typhoid in some weaponized form covertly to an area that is believed to contain Ladens hideout?

I have no idea. Maybe he was working on something and it was a work related death.

[REDWOOD99]

If he's not dead, what better way to make him resurface?

[A CA Guy]

True, he could have been in the process of cutting his own head off when typhoid hit him and he died.

[conservative in nyc]

I do find it a coincidence that Musharraf is here.

It's probably not. Musharraf and half of the world's leaders have been in New York this week to attend the opening of the U.N. General Assembly (and cause gridlock in Midtown Manhattan).

[Dallas59]

I'm stealing your GIF...

[ET(end tyranny)]

True but I assumed someone on OUR side would do the test , not muslim apologists.

We had better have someone from our side do the tests. I just don't trust them. Like that truce bit at Tora Bora I think it was.

[A CA Guy]

If he's not dead, what better way to make him resurface?

Have a double go onto Al Jazerra and claim a conversion to Christianity?

[Fred Nerks]

"...the whole possibility of hot pursuit into Pakistan just came up, and Musharraf is here..."

[ET(end tyranny)]

If this story is true, you are seeing a main source of the money and fund raising drying up IMO.

His son will probably carry on.

[A CA Guy]

The son may carry on, but he is not the father.

It's like Sinatra Jr. standing in for his dad.

[onyx]

You will love THIS!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

So, what you are trying to say is, that, no matter how the DEMS spin this, it's doesn't matter, because they ( the DEMS ) look like losers in the eye's of the American public anyway ?
All I am trying to do is, give some ideas in ways we can counter the Dems spin in case this news report is true about OSBL.