Unconfirmed reports that Osama bin Laden is dead
Since that b*st*rd Castro won’t have the decency to stay dead when I report it I am shifting targets.
The French newspaper L’est republican is reporting that Saudi Arabian police have told the French DGSE that Osama bin Laden died of Typhoid Fever in Pakistan last month.
“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.”
According to Fox News everyone involved is being very careful to say this is unconfirmed.
A U.S. official told FOX News that he had seen no evidence to suggest the Al Qaeda leader was dead. “Don’t believe it,” he said. “I would not give credence to that report.”
At the moment Ace at Ace of Spades is throwing caution to the winds and disagreeing. I follow his reasoning but I refuse to get my hopes up.
Others: Powerline, Wizbang, Patterico, Just One Minute
Update - 1700 23 Sep 06:
California Yankee at Redstate has linked to a Pakistani newspaper report which emphatically states that Osama is alive:
LAHORE: Pakistani intelligence circles have strongly refuted a French newspaper report claiming that al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had died of typhoid in the country some time between August 23 and September 4 this year.
“Based on the information gleaned from several arrested al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders, we can say with authority that Osama bin Laden, his deputy Ayman Al Zawahiri and the former Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar are very much alive and in good health,” said a senior intelligence official in Rawalpindi.
“We are sure that bin Laden is hiding somewhere between Afghanistan and Pakistan,” he said. “We believe that his deputy sometimes moves back and forth between the two with the help of Mullah Omar and his associates.”
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September 23rd, 2006 at 9:16 am
Bin Laden’s Death Saddens Me
I’ll tell you why in a moment. First, here’s the swirl of news bits: French investigate report of bin Laden’s ‘death’
September 25th, 2006 at 11:02 am
Wouldn’t it be ironic…
Americas biggest threat, brought down by a lowly germ…
Wait?!?!! Isn’t that the plot line of “War of the Worlds”?????