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France to probe bin Laden death report leak

PARIS (Reuters) - France's Defense Ministry said on Saturday a secret service report saying al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had died could not be confirmed but said it would launch an inquiry into the leak of secret documents.

The Defense Ministry issued the statement after a French regional newspaper, L'Est Republicain, published a report quoting a French secret service report as saying Saudi Arabia is convinced al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan last month. ...

Experts: Bin Laden Death Might Explain U.N. Sulfur Smell

(2006-09-23) -- United Nations authorities are probing a possible link between reports that al Qaeda leader Usama Bin Laden died recently and the peculiar sulfur smell which Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he detected while speaking to the U.N. General Assembly this week. ...

*** 12:59

Osama’s dead possibly gravely ill!
Allahpundit

Naturally the news breaks on the one morning of the week that I sleep in.

Catching up now. Mary K’s got the best round-up. Note in particular the report from Time that she links; CNN said a little while ago that one of Nic Robertson’s sources confirmed that Osama’s very sick (but not dead).

*** 13:22

OBL Croaks...Again
John Werntz

Here we go again.  The French Minister of Defense is urgently investigating a leak from the DGSE [France's service of foreign intelligence] to a daily in the East, L'Est Républicain.  The newspaper reproduces what purports to be a secret memo that was forwarded to the *highest authorities* of the nation.

For what it may be worth [as news, and as a literary effort] the sequel presents a translation of the essentials.

*** 14:47

Osama: Dead again?
Michelle Malkin

Unverified rumors bubbling up again--this time from France and the Saudis.

Lots of readers are wondering if that funeral gathering of Taliban leaders is tied into this latest report of bin Laden's demise. Mary Katharine has a monster round-up; Allah points to bigger news at the Jawa Report: ...

*** 16:44

Osama bin-Laden Dead....Again?
Alexandra von Maltzan

This may be the best present to Israel today for Rosh Ha-Shanah....The Day Of Judgment....How appropriate...

Could this possibly be true? Was it something I said yesterday.....

Via WND I find in the early hours of this morning that a French daily newspaper L'Est Republicain has published that the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin-Laden died within days of contracting typhoid fever in Pakistan.

"According to a commonly reliable source, the Saudi police believe that Osama Bin Laden has died," said a Sept. 21 confidential note transmitted by the Directorate-General of External Services. ...

Also on the story: Right Wing Sparkle, MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Wizbang!, Stop The ACLU, Captain's Quarters, LGF

Contributed by Bill Faith on September 23, 2006 at 01:43 PM in Bill Faith, Current Affairs, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

Comments

Posted by: Frankie Cee

Dead, Dying, Whatever....... shouldn't we tell all the Jihadis the truth- That the Allah guy is punishing him with a slow painful death by typhoid that he caught through intimate contact with a pig. He has abused the koran so badly that the Allah guy is pi$$ed off, and has put it to him. The Allah guy won't give him the benefit of a fast death by the U.S.Marines. Works for me- nuf sed

Posted by: Frankie Cee | Sep 23, 2006 2:43:42 PM

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