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."

[BigSkyFreeper]

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

Beats the hell out of using a Tylenol when you've got a headache. :)

[Dallas59]

NEXT!

[Miss Behave]

You are killing me, CA Guy. LOL.

[REDWOOD99]

I don't see the resemblance. Clay Bin Laden must take after his mother.

Mrs. Bin Laden

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Yes, they are great, but, I found them from another Freeper here on FR.
I just wish someone here on FR who had some video and audio talent would make a ( RUSH parody ) video of either the real Patton or George C. Scott saying that line with Rove right there in front of Patton ( but, for some reason, seeing George C. Scott playing the part of Patton and saying that line just fits perfect ).

I just thought of something ?
You know how you have the here comes the chief song played ?
Well, for ROVE, have the famous music ( the drums , and the trumpets echoing ) from the movie Patton played for ROVE.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

That's something I always wondered about. From what I know of Saudis ( I lived there six years ), and the great and highly public delivery of Mike Moran's declaration, why did OBL never respond to it in any of his videos? They usually don't blow something like that off.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Those Patton pics are not mine, I did a search here on FR and found them, and thought is was appropriate to post them with ROVE's October/September ( fooled the Dems ) surprise.

[Dallas59]

10,000 year old Liberal dug up....

[doug from upland]

Why didn't he respond to my song? I would have thought I would be on a jihad list my now.

[ET(end tyranny)]

You know how you have the here comes the chief song played ?

Do you mean Hail To The Chief?

[Finalapproach29er]

LOL

That's pretty good.

[unspun]

Thanks for the work on the translation -- but a French news report allegedly based on information from the Saudi police doesn't seem much to go on.

Maybe Inspector Clouseau's services would be of assistance.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Mega Dittos
well ?? almost

NEXT !!

[Miss Behave]

OMG, Redwood.

[conservative in nyc]

Here's a FreeTranslation.com translation of the latest crAP France article on the Bin Ladin rumors. I haven't seen any new English-language articles on Google or Yahoo! News. Note that a CIA spokesman said he is unable to confirm the rumor:

Last update: Saturday, September 23 2006 to 09:00
New rumor on the death of Bin Laden
The number one d'Al-Qaïda, always in demand by the secret services
The al-qaïda number one, always looked for by the secret services [Keystone]
Regional the newspaper French "THE republican EAST" asserts Saturday to have obtained itself a confidential grade "no cut again" French piece of information, according to which the Saudi services would have "obtain the conviction" that the al-qaïda boss succumbed to the fever typhoid.

No official source had not confirmed Saturday morning the existence of the supposed grade, of which the newspaper inhabitant of lorraine specifies that she was "recorded in the documents 'no cut again'".


The latter years, uniform rumors announced the death of the al-qaïda boss, designated orchestrator of the attempts of the 11-Septembre, often supposed earth over itself between the Pakistan and the afghanistan.


L '"Republican East" asserts that the grade that it quotes would have been transmitted Thursday to the president of the Republic, to the Prime Minister, to the minister of the interior and to the minister of the Defense. To the elysée, none of the persons in charge joins by the associated Press did not be some measures Saturday morning to confirm the existence of this document.


Washington does not confirm

To Washington, the permanence person in charge to the CIA Paul Gimigliano saying not to be able to confirm information. Ben N. Venzke, the director of the center IntelCenter, based to Washington, that oversees the communications linked to the terrorism, confirmed not to have nothing "nothing seen on al-qaïda messages or of other informers that can indicate the oussama death bin Laden" and underlined that al-qaïda would broadcast probably enough quickly the information on the death if she was proved.


"They would want to broadcast this information kind to check the manner of which she is to develop. Themselves they awaited too a long time, they would risk losing the initiative on the subject", he explained to the ap.

Impossible authentification

L '"Republican East" does not furnish no element allowing authenticating the attributed document to the DGSE (general Direction of the exterior security), of which it reproduces a party. The text is entitled "the Saudi services collect supplementary the news on the oussama death bin Laden".


The text specifies that "according to a habitually reliable source, the Saudi services of security would have obtained the conviction that oussama Bin Laden is dead". "According to the elements" that they would have collected it would have been victim of a very strong typhoid crisis August 23 last one while it was located to the Pakistan and the Saudi services would have collected September 4 "the first pieces of information mentioning his death".


ap/sch

Link (in French): http://info.rsr.ch/fr/rsr.html?siteSect=500&sid=7092902&cKey=1158994782000

[Prophet in the wilderness]

You mean, it's doesn't matter what the LIBS/DEMS/MSDBM say, they have all of their head in the sand with this news report ?

[Finalapproach29er]

Some dissenter called the Iranian leader "smelly", saying he didn't bathe often- he apparently was furious and tried hunting the guy down.

So, I just call him "smelly".

[HAL9000]

Reuters - French paper says bin Laden died in Pakistan

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Yes, I just could not think of the correct title.

[STARWISE]