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Corky
Joined: 06 Jan 2004
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 Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:33 am Post subject: Bin Laden might be dead |
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What a thought. The Saudis say they're just waiting for a grave site...
What comes next... |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:45 am Post subject: |
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| Verification. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:54 am Post subject: |
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| WTF? |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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Well, let's see:
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French Paper: Osama bin Laden Is Dead
POSTED: 9:23 am EDT September 23, 2006
UPDATED: 12:24 pm EDT September 23, 2006
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PARIS -- The French defense ministry on Saturday called for an internal investigation of the leak of an intelligence document that raises the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan a month ago but said the report of the death remained unverified.
"The information defused this morning by the l'Est Republicain newspaper concerning the possible death of Osama bin Laden cannot be confirmed," a Defense Ministry statement said.
The daily newspaper for the Lorraine region in eastern France printed what it described as a confidential document from the French foreign intelligence service DGSE citing an uncorroborated report from Saudi secret services that the leader of the al-Qaida terror network had died.
The contents of the document, dated Sept. 21, or Thursday, were not confirmed by French or other intelligence sources. However, the DGSE transmitted the note to President Jacques Chirac and other officials, the newspaper said.
Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie "has demanded an investigation be carried out of this leak," a ministry statement said, adding that transmission of the confidential document could risk punishment.
Defense Ministry spokesman Jean-Francois Bureau, clarifying the statement, said that the DGSE document exists but that its contents -- that bin Laden is allegedly dead -- cannot be confirmed.
The DGSE, or Direction Generale des Services Exterieurs, indicated that its information came from a single source.
"According to a reliable source, Saudi security services are now convinced that Osama bin Laden is dead," said the intelligence report.
There have been periodic reports of bin Laden's illness or death in recent years but none has been proven accurate.
According to this document, Saudi security services were pursuing further details, notably the place of his burial.
"The chief of al-Qaida was a victim of a severe typhoid crisis while in Pakistan on August 23, 2006," the document says. His geographic isolation meant that medical assistance was impossible, the French report said, adding that his lower limbs were allegedly paralyzed. On Sept. 4, Saudi security services had their first information on bin Laden's alleged death, the unconfirmed document reported.
In Pakistan, a senior official of that country's top spy agency, the ISI or Directorate of Inter-Service Intelligence, said he had no information to confirm bin Laden's whereabouts or that he might be dead. The official said he believed the report could be fabricated. The official was not authorized to speak publicly on the topic and spoke on condition of anonymity.
U.S. Embassy officials in Pakistan and Afghanistan also said they could not confirm the French report. |
Fingers-crossed. Cause, gee, if he is dead, then terrorism is over!!! Hooray!
Holy Crap!!! I hope this is true:
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| On September 23 2006 the French newspaper L'Est R�publicain quoted a report from the French secret service (DGSE) stating that Osama Bin Laden had died in Pakistan on September 4, 2006 after contracting a case of typhoid fever on August 23, 2006 that paralyzed his lower limbs. [27][28][29] The alleged death was reported by Saudi Arabian secret service to Saudi Arabian government, which reported it to the French secret service. The French defence minister Mich�le Alliot-Marie expressed her regret that the report had been published while the French president Jacques Chirac declared that Bin Laden's death had not been confirmed. [30] |
Cause that's my freaking birthday!
I feel like that little kid ogling the porn when the float girl comes flying through his window: "Thank you God!" Or karma, or whatever. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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| If true, I am torn between my desire to be the better man and my hope that it was extremely painful and undignified. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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If you think terrorism is over if Osama Bin Laden is dead, I think that is a little premature or naive.
Good news to be sure though if he is dead. You reap what you sow. I don't think he's getting his 70 virgins in heaven anyway. |
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Dan The Chainsawman
Joined: 05 May 2005
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I am still surprised no one dimed him out for the reward. Kind of dissappointing his bloody head, in a burlap sack, was not dumped in front of a white house with a swiss account number attached to the sack. |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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Osama's famous last words?
"70...virgin......SHEEP???!?!??? |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Guri Guy wrote: |
If you think terrorism is over if Osama Bin Laden is dead, I think that is a little premature or naive.
Good news to be sure though if he is dead. You reap what you sow. I don't think he's getting his 70 virgins in heaven anyway. |
You really have no sarcasm detector at all. Or, you feel the need to be unclever in the face of dialog, I am not sure which yet. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/23/frontpage/23binladen.php
Chirac says Osama Bin Laden death not confirmed
The Associated Press
September 23, 2006
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PARIS President Jacques Chirac said Saturday that information contained in a leaked intelligence document raising the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan last month is "in no way whatsoever confirmed."
Chirac said he was "a bit surprised" at the leak and has asked Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to probe how a document from a French foreign intelligence service was published in the French press.
The regional newspaper l'Est Republicain on Saturday printed what it described as a copy of a confidential document from the DGSE intelligence service citing an uncorroborated report from Saudi secret services that the leader of the al-Qaida terror network had died.
Officials from Afghanistan to Washington expressed doubts about the report.
Two American intelligence officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue said Saturday that U.S. agencies have no evidence to suggest a reason to believe that bin Laden is dead or dying. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| khyber wrote: |
Osama's famous last words?
"70...virgin......SHEEP???!?!??? |
Little change then. Poor guy. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| Cause that's my freaking birthday! |
I was born on the day that Park Chunghee was assassinated. That is way more awesome. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Zyzyfer wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
| Cause that's my freaking birthday! |
I was born on the day that Park Chunghee was assassinated. That is way more awesome. |
Impossible. He was assassinated after WW2. |
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kiwigirl :O)
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:26 am Post subject: |
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| its hard to kill evil....... i think at the moment its hearsay n gossip..... |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:25 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| Zyzyfer wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
| Cause that's my freaking birthday! |
I was born on the day that Park Chunghee was assassinated. That is way more awesome. |
Impossible. He was assassinated after WW2. |
Yeah, if enough people keep telling you you're funny, I reckon you would come to believe it. |
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