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."
Have you ever noticed how quick the Bush administration has been to declare all OBL tapes authentic?
Maybe ... but you've gotta look at where we've holed that group up at ... not too much technology in that area any way.
The other problem we have is different people interpreting them.
A US military spokesman said there was nothing PC about it.
He said there was no ordnance close enough to hit them before they dispersed.
This is an attempt by the Left to "end" the WOT.
Need a patch of skin for the DNA!
I agree, caves dont have much in the way of Best Buy or Circuit City. But in a day and age where one can make videos with a cellphone, UBL holding up todays copy of "Dawn" or the Islamabad newspaper wouldnt be difficult at all. I have no inside knowledge or anything, but I really believe he died that day..
Quite a "part".
;-)
I heard it also...
er... I was a little slow on the uptake there! cheers!
We've got satellite photos of the guy on horseback just before we incinerated the place with bombs as big as VWs. He became a 2000 degree piece of carbon that day.
Mrs. SR was just sitting with her cup of hazelnut coffee watching arrrrGGGG, CNN saying they reported this as well. WAIT! She just hollered out,...... the other news channels aren't reporting it.
Wasn't that the deadline Iran set for itself and a mystical date for Moslems?
They should have decided to have her run for President first. She could have run for national office from Arkansas if she hadn't been playing the role of dutiful governor's wife.
Absolutely, far more than now. We kitties even got to play with them before they were killed. The good old days.
Good question.
We should have had the fly guys in Okinowa hit them hard.
Not only that....If he was near death, He would make a verrrrry long tape praising his lieutenants.....but not necessarily give it to Al Jazeera.
I have noticed that, but I have also noticed that it is the CIA which confirms their authenticity, and which has its own motivations, which are not necessarily identical to those of the administration.
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