Posted on 09/22/2006 10:33:45 PM PDT by 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."
We must wait for a CREDIBLE news source to confirm this. The NYT and CBS are reviewing the editorial process and all related documents as we speak.
The reason for releasing OBL's confession tape to the public press on
Dec 13, 2001 was that it was no longer needed as legally admissible evidence?
Not bombing it leaves it as a big dot to watch. The dudes attending would have been all his lieutentants. We would want to see where the roaches go and what other roaches show up.
Did he die from typhoid (for which there is a vaccine) or cholera?
"I wonder if Clinton knew of this the other day, when he got so adamant about insisting he had tried to get UBL."
I was wondering the same thing. Don't former President's (and certain members of their cabinets) still receive some security briefings/info?
He sure has been in the news a lot lately (more than usual). I guess that may be partly due to his 'initiative' and the forum he was hosting at the UN this week. But, Greta had a 1:1 interview w him the other night, he's on Fox News Sunday tomorrow (if you haven't seen the video of him - check out the thread Video here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706688/posts
transcript here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706727/posts
and probably other shows on CNN, etc (don't know, don't
watch that channel).
Reuters version: Clinton Faults Bush for Inaction on Bin Laden
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706822/posts
Our media just said either he is dead or dying of typhoid but nothing is confirmed.
Hmmmmmm
Maybe that's why Bubba is so upset. I wrote on that old funeral thread that :That the funeral photo was eerily similar to the one showing Usama and his entourage as targets during the Clinton Administration.
So have the Democrats declared "Mission Accomplished" in the War on Terror?
The funeral photo was a "leak", too.
Or even better - Judaism.
"No shiite, he's dead! He died at Tora Bora in 2001.."
That is what I believe also. He loved the camera so much and since then there have been only "supposed" audio messages from him. I believe he has been gone for a long time.
Interesting.
Yes. Clinton seems especially defensive about UBL. I thought at first it had something to do with laying the groundwork for Hillary's 2008 campaign, but now it seems it could be as you say.
If that's true it be hard to explain his video from the last election 04 .
Scratchy, almost unintelligible AUDIO, of "Osama". Terrorists make martyrdom videos, where is osamas? That is something the enemy would saturate the airwaves with. No, I beleive he died in December 2001..
Always said that Bubba would be responsible for Hillary's fall. I'll bet she's physically upset about his performance especially the finger wagging. How they must loathe each other!!
As many bloggers here at Fr would ask, where is the proof?
I am very suspicious of anything the French would say and, they must provide proof. This however will never be possible.
Those who are closely tied to OBL will never allow the truth of his death be made public, if in truth the event has occurred.
Besides, everyone knows that Carl Rove is to announce OBL death two days before the upcoming elections.
Rove knows that Osama is gravely ill, and also knows exactly when in October he is going to die. :)
From what I understand not bombing that funeral was a dumb idea. It was a PC move instead of a military kill.
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