Osama Bin Laden is Dead (?)

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Officials can't confirm bin Laden death report
Updated Sat. Sep. 23 2006 9:38 AM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Neither U.S. nor France officials can confirm a French newspaper report claiming al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden died last month in Pakistan.

Citing a leaked French secret service report, regional daily newspaper L'Est Republicain reported Saturday that Saudi Arabia was convinced bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan in late August.

The French government said it could not confirm the report and would investigate the intelligence leak.

"The information diffused this morning by the l'Est Republicain newspaper concerning the possible death of Osama bin Laden cannot be confirmed," said a Defence Ministry statement.

French President Jacques Chirac said the report "is in no way whatsoever confirmed"

He said he was "a bit surprised" by the leak, and has asked Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to investigate how a document from France's DGSE intelligence agency was published in the press.

L'Est Republicain printed what it described as a copy of a confidential document from the DGSE (Direction Generale des Services Exterieurs).

It cited an uncorroborated report from Saudi secret services that the leader of the al Qaeda terror network had died.

The DGSE transmitted the document, dated Sept. 21, to Chirac and other top French officials, the newspaper said.

The report added that Saudi security services were pursuing further details, notably the place of bin Laden's burial.

"The chief of al Qaeda was a victim of a severe typhoid crisis while in Pakistan on August 23, 2006," the document says according to the report, adding that the leader's geographic isolation meant that medical assistance was impossible and that his lower limbs were allegedly paralyzed.

The report further said Saudi security services had their first information on bin Laden's alleged death on Sept. 4.

Meanwhile in Washington, CIA duty officer Paul Gimigliano said he could not confirm the DGSE report.

The Washington-based IntelCenter, which monitors terrorism communications, said it was not aware of any similar reports on the Internet.

"We've seen nothing from any al Qaeda messaging or other indicators that would point to the death of Osama bin Laden," IntelCenter director Ben N. Venzke told The Associated Press.

If it were true, al Qaeda would likely release information of his death fairly quickly, said Venzke, whose organization also provides counterterrorism intelligence services for the American government.

"They would want to release that to sort of control the way that it unfolds. If they wait too long, they could lose the initiative on it."

Reports suggesting that bin Laden was dead, wounded or seriously ill have surfaced over the years, more often during periods when no taped messages from the al Qaeda leader surfaced in the media. But none have proven to be accurate.

However, Saudi sources told CNN's Nic Robertson that they learned bin Laden has been ill with a water-borne disease for the past several weeks.

The IntelCenter said the last time it could be sure bin Laden was alive was June 29, when al Qaeda released an audiotape. In that recording, he eulogized the death of al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq earlier that month.

In Pakistan, a senior official of that country's top spy agency told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that he could not confirm the French newspaper report.

The ISI, or Directorate of Inter-Service Intelligence, official said he believed the report could be fabricated.

U.S. Embassy officials in Pakistan and Afghanistan also said they could not confirm the report.

Gen. Henri Bentegeat, the French army chief of staff, said in a radio debate last Sunday that bin Laden's fate remained a mystery.

"Today, bin Laden is certainly not in Afghanistan," Bentegeat said.

"No one is completely certain that he is even alive."

With files from The Associated Press

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Hmm...
 
hmm... May Allah have mercy on him if he has died...
(I had a dream that he did) dunno *unsure*
 
If he dies quietly I doubt very much that anybody will ever know for certain. The only thing that may come out is that a person believed to be Osama has died. However, I doubt that there would ever be any definite proof.
 
It wouldn't break my heart if he was dead. I won't say that I hope he is dead, because that would be an un-Christian sentiment, but I wouldn't mourn his passing. However, I wouldn't be surprised to see another video tape sent to Al-Jazeera with Osama's face on it, just to counter the accusation that he is dead.
 
So according to this report Usama died last month? How strange, because I recall reading an article sometime last year stating that Usama had died a natural death...something about liver problems or along that line...hmmm
 
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If he is alive, he will probably send a tape. But as Woodrow said, no will ever know if he dies quietly. He would be buried by Al-Qaeda operatives, and the USA would just keep searching.

:w:
 
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if this was true the US propaganda machine would be working over time by now.
 
Ghazi said:
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if this was true the US propaganda machine would be working over time by now.
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Nobody knows if this is true, it is a French intelligence report. If OBL isn't dead, then the Al-Qaeda propaganda machine will let us know sooner than later.
 
Mawaddah said:
So according to this report Usama died last month? How strange, because I recall reading an article sometime last year stating that Usama had died a natural death...something about liver problems or along that line...hmmm
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yh i heard this last year too:uhwhat
 
for all we know it could be a ruse to get some "activity" out of the group

so they can ry and catch him

dunno

just a guess
 

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