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."
ok I'LL START...
I FEEL THE ICE IS SLOWLY MELTING...
IT SEEMS LIKE YEARS SINCE ITS BEEN HERE...
HERE COMES THE SUN, DO DO DO DOOO
We need another Patton. He had the right attitude.
Maybe because some believe that seeing a video confirms that he's alive. If they see a video of me 200 years from now people will think I'm alive.
If he had died of "poor health", (he's had issues for years), WE may not have killed him. Cavuto asked specifically if WE had done the job.
They may have had to pay the warlords a bit of the reward money, just to help confirm his death. Could still be waiting on testing, not wanting to release information and then have everyone yell "Bush lied"......
Maybe THE tape was confiscated at the time the sample was taken? Is it too much to ask for?
114 posted on 09/07/2006 4:31:44 PM EDT by hoosiermama
You haven't the slightest idea what a troll looks look. LOL
You're 100% correct.
Later, quite a few FREEPERs turned into trolls and even when they were banned, their drooling sycophants would post long threads for them.
LOL.....I'm as clam as a cucumber. :-)
bttt
LOL...but he wasn't a troll.
During your searches, did you find out when the first MODS appeared? I know that FR didn't have any until at least 2000.
That we did!
I think you're spot on, Miss Marple.
"The answer might be that word has reached someone in his family."
Indeed!
I'd like to see the frames around it. AND you know we have better views than that.
No, our government doesn't have to 'splain the photographs that are classified.
There was a big meeting between Karzai and Musharuff in the last couple of weeks, too.
It wasn't released it was leaked:
See here: http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=134420
IMO after it was leaked the gov had to come up with a story. (Note they tried to pull it first.) It may be they changed the date to cover the boots still in the area.
I might add that OBL reveled in his role as leader and spokesman. I have always thought it out of character for him to allow others to appear on the tapes in his place.
On other words, I have long thought him dead.
The Admin Mods sign up date on their profile page is 9/3/01,
but my memory is that they were around before they had the profile thing.
Why don't we ask them.
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