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. ...
(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. ...
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Allahpundit
Naturally the news breaks on the one morning of the week that I sleep in.
Catching up now. ’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).
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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, . 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.
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Michelle Malkin
Unverified rumors bubbling up again--this time from and the .
Lots of readers are wondering if is tied into this latest report of bin Laden's demise. Mary Katharine has a ; points to bigger news at the : ...
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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
Via WND I find in the early hours of this morning that a French daily newspaper 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. ...
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Contributed by Bill Faith on September 23, 2006 at 01:43 PM in , , |
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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
