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."

[Uriah_lost]

I think its Hail to the Bride....IIRC....hmmm

[taxesareforever]

My sentiments exactly. I've said this for a looonnnngggg time. Nice to hear someone else agrees. Can we start a "Osama Bin Gonna club?

[conservative in nyc]

Thanks. All of the crAP's English language staff must still be asleep.

[A CA Guy]

Right, Osama said she wasn't ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ad.

[ET(end tyranny)]

It'll be interesting to see what the morning news shows have to say, if anything.

[ET(end tyranny)]

I think its Hail to the Bride....IIRC....hmmm

hmmmm ... Is that why people have to stand and look at the bride as she enters?

[saradippity]

Eighty-five posts and you two are the only posters saying that he has been dead for quite some time. I happen to agree and cannot believe that there are 83 people in the world that believe he's been alive since 2001,let alone Freepers. Pretty scary.

[gonzo]

"...Is Franco still dead?..."

Yeh, Sinatra's gone...............FRegards

[Prophet in the wilderness]

What I meant in my post 225, was, have a theme song for Rove as he enters a room or goes to the podium, and use that song with the drums and echoing trumpets from the movie Patton for Rove and picture in our minds Patton saying to ROVE " Rove ? you magnificent bastard "

[conservative in nyc]

Major news websites (including the Washington Post and MSNBC.com) have picked up the Reuters story, so you might hear this on the AM news broadcasts. There hasn't been an English language AP story yet, as far as I can tell from Google and Yahoo! News (but those sites are never up to the second - stories hit the wires 5-15 minutes before they hit those news services sometimes).

[corbe]

OBAMA KILLS OSAMA

That way the NYT can get him on Hillarys ticket as VP!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Ahmadinejad 10,000 years from now after we nuke Iran

[Miss Behave]

I think people have to stand and look at the bride because she spent so much money on her gown and so much time getting her hair and makeup all dooded up. ;-)

[beyond the sea]

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

LOL

[beyond the sea]

Put him in a well.

[beyond the sea]

Just announced on Coast to Coast so it must be true.

[LibWhacker]

Isn't the reward for him for him a dead-or-alive reward? If so, we ought to be able to get DNA confirmation pretty quickly since ratting out the location of a corpse can't be as risky for a muslim as ratting out the location of a live bin Laden, or can it?

[beyond the sea]

The ugly Americans forced poor Osama into the far reaches where he contacted typhoid.

It's Bush's Fault.

[beyond the sea]

OBAMA KILLS OSAMA That way the NYT can get him on Hillarys ticket as VP!

LOL

[REDWOOD99]

Coast-to-Coast, World Net Daily..... What next? New York Slimes? The pillars of credibility.