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