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

AP France ^ | September 23, 2006

[JRios1968]

Goats all around Afghanistan breathe a sigh of relief...

[Howlin]

I have been waiting for proof for sometime-proof that he was alive.

Exactly!!!!

[conservative in nyc]

L'est Republicain article (in French):

http://www.estrepublicain.fr/zoom/2006092300222348.html

[Kay]

That Karl Rove! Is this the premature October Surprise?!

[wjcsux]

Is Franco still dead?

[SuziQ]

(Waitaminit...didn't Rove say there'd be an 'October Surprise'? Could it be....?????)

Heh, I wondered about that myself.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

If it is true, I hope someone will make sure somehow to get DNA samples to confirm OSBLs death...
I wonder how long before the MSDBM and the Democrats will hold somber memorials , and a moment of silence for OSBL ?

[grey_whiskers]

How reputable is L'Est republicain?

Much better than "L'Eft Democrat", n'est-ce pas?

Cheers!

[REDWOOD99]

Could his have been the funeral that the al-Queada were attending when we passed up the opportunity to bomb them in formation?

[Sunsong]

This is obviously what we all want to hear - but verification is vital!!!

Where's the body???

[Fred Nerks]

[SuziQ]

WooHoo!

[TomGuy]

Again?


Ole bin Laden has died almost as many times as Yassar Arafat did.

Is he really, really dead this time, though?

[conservative in nyc]

Don't blame me for the translation. Blame Babel Fish. From L'Est Republicain:

Usama Bin Laden would have died

The Saoudi secret service would have acquired the conviction that the Al-Qaïda founder died.

If it were confirmed soon, information would fall à.pic for American president George Bush strongly abused by the surveys to less than two months from the elections.

Information that we reveal today results from a note of confidential information classified "defense" emanating from the Directorate-General of the external services (DGSE). The French secret service transmitted it Thursday September 21 to the President of the republic, to the Prime Minister, to the Minister of Interior Department and Defense. We deliver the contents of it to you in-extenso.:

"According to a usually reliable source, the Saoudi services from now on would have acquired the conviction that Usama Bin Laden died. The elements collected by the Saoudi indicate that the chief of Al-Qaïda would have been victim, whereas it was in Pakistan on August 23, 2006, of a very strong crisis of typhoid having involved a paralysis partial of his lower limbs. Its geographical insulation, caused by a permanent escape, would have made impossible any medical care. September 4, 2006, the Saoudi services of safety collected the first information making state of its death. They would wait, to obtain more details, and in particular the exact place of its burial, to announce the news officially ".

The information collected by the DGSE on the death of Ben Laden was considered to be sufficiently reliable so that it is decided to inform the highest French authorities of them. A first note had been written and diffused on last 19 September. It was entitled: "the Saoudi services seek to confirm the death of Usama Bin Laden".

Before the disclosure of this news, that made more than three years that the American persons in charge for the counter-terrorism had not received credible information. It is necessary to go up with the arrest of one of the Al-Qaïda leaders, Walid Mohamed Ben Attash in April 2003, to find a trace of Ben Laden. It had been established then that this last had met the spiritual chief of Jihad, three months before, in the province of Khost in Afghanistan. These last months, the American commandos, who were in load of the tracking, concentrated their research at the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the north of the tribal areas. I.e. in the area not controlled by the authorities of Islamabad and where the army never ventures. It should be said that the soldiers Pakistani recorded enormous losses as men when they had tried to occupy the ground in 2004 and 2005.

644 dead

In spite of the enormous means deployed by the Americans for the capture of Ben Laden, research is remained vain. And this, in spite of the use of satellites, drones and means of listenings sophisticated. Thanks to the arrest of several members of nebula Al-Qaïda, the services American know that Ben Laden leaves its masks little. It would leave only during the night and when the cloud cover is thick. And thanks to his local troops, the Saoudi billionaire has a very good knowledge of the area which offers an infinite number of cushy jobs.

In spite of this impossible research, the American administration never wanted to give up "It is our principal priority", declared on last 13 September the Cheney vice-president. While the Senate resolved 200 million dollars to recreate a cell of the information especially intended to track that which it September 11, 2001 to dare to defy America. And whose organization asserts the commission of 16 attacks, made 644 having died and 2700 wounded, perpetrated in the world in the name of Al-Qaïda since September 2001. An organization become a mark, a label, an ideological reference to the name of which thousands of fanatics throughout the world are ready to pass to the terrorist action in an autonomous way. Like the authors of the attacks from July 7, 2005 in London.

Laïd SAMMARI

[beaversmom]

Could his have been the funeral that the al-Queada were attending when we passed up the opportunity to bomb them in formation?

Very interesting. Was that right after August 23rd? Don't the Muslims have to bury them pretty quick?

[C210N]

This is SO SAD! I'm going to CRY...

that he died of Typhoid fever and not LEAD POISONING.

[stephenjohnbanker]

: )

[Turbopilot]

Yeah, I'll believe it when I see his head on a pike.

Good post. I had literally the exact same thought when I saw the article title.

Prove the identity through DNA, then put his head on a pike outside the front entrance to the Pentagon. For extra credit, let's pay down the national debt by setting up a stand in front with baseball bats for rent, $1 per swing. By the time OBL's done with, Saddam will have been executed and we can put up his head.

[RedMonqey]

When We get back the COMPLETE DNA test results then and only then will I believe he has truly be converted into a true believer......

[stephenjohnbanker]

: )..................: )