More rumors of bin Laden's death

[sabra]

http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20061108-105604-5212r

Analysis: More rumors of bin Laden's death

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Has the rumor of Osama bin Laden's death been greatly exaggerated, or is there more to it than initially thought? The news first surfaced last September, when a French regional newspaper citing French and Saudi intelligence sources claimed that the most wanted man in the world had died while hiding in the mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

If one is to read into behavioral changes among Saudi Arabian jihadi fighters returning from Pakistan and Afghanistan, bin Laden could indeed be dead.

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"They had no attack plan and no clear command structure," said Saudi security expert Nawaf Obaid. "They focused exclusively on avoiding Saudi security services."

Obaid is a Saudi Arabian security and intelligence analyst who monitors trends among Saudi terrorist groups. He told United Press International that there appears to be an increasing number of Saudi nationals who had gone to Pakistan and Afghanistan to join bin Laden's training camps for a chance to fight American forces and their allies in Afghanistan.

Scores of these fighters are now suddenly making their way back to Saudi Arabia. The returnees seem to be completely disorganized, not knowing where to go, or what to do once in the kingdom. They have no marching orders, many have not been paid in several months, and they seem in total disarray.

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Sounds more like

they lost their CIA funding.

Seems all the tentacles of BushCo are falling apart.

[AlamoDemoc]

2. You have to wonder if OBL is still alive when * can't get a fresh tape out of him on election day!

[MidwestTransplant]

3. Um you got to figure somebody would have blabbed.

You can't keep a secret amongs hundreds of people.

[Berry Cool]

4. Then again, you never know.

[razors edge]

5. French report

Osama bin Laden is dead: French paper
(DPA)

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2006/September/theworld_September801.xml§ion=theworld

PARIS - Saudi intelligence services have determined that terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden died of typhoid in August, the French regional daily L’Est Republicain reported on its website on Saturday.

The newspaper said it based its information on a document classified ‘defence secret’ originating in the French DGSE intelligence services. According to the story, the DGSE informed President Jacques Chirac of the Saudi report on Thursday.

The DGSE document, printed with the report, reads in part, ‘According to a usually reliable source, the Saudi intelligence services are said to have acquired the information that Osama bin Laden is dead. The information gleaned by the Saudis indicates that the head of Al Qaeda was a victim of a very strong attack of thyphoid... in Pakistan on August 23, 2006.’

The document goes on to say that bin Laden’s geographical isolation rendered all medical assistance impossible.

edit, fix link

[barb162]

6. I think that 9/23/06 article was debunked back in September

The Saudis had no evidence that disgusting terrorist pig was dead

[razors edge]

7. Did they have proof he was alive?

We don't have proof Jimmy Hoffa is dead.

[barb162]

13. No one has any proof until he makes his next film

with his usual threats of jihad.

[eridani]

15. Even that isn't proof

With voice morphing, you can gin up a fake film using nothing but snippets of reorganized audio tacked on to old video.

[oblivious]

14. Then wouldn't someone blab about his being alive, his whereabouts etc.

He's dead, long gone, though still politically productive.

[pnwmom]

16. If the rumors are correct, then people ARE blabbing.

[GregW]

8. Now was that the fat Osama or skinny Osama?

:shrug:

[Pastiche423]

9. Dems win both Houses of Congress. OBL dead

A coincidence? lol

I think not. The old bugger died in December 2001.

[Mr Rabble]

10. He did indeed. Reported everywhere but the U.S..

I think the BBC report is one of the first google hits for this story.

[anotherdrew]

11. bush has known for months, but "didn't want to inject that into the campaign" n/t

[Bush_MUST_Go]

12. Letting Osama escape justice after 9/11 insured he'd become a legend forever.

His death is totally irrelevant.

[greccogirl]

17. Oh that would

be wonderful. Please, please..............

[Amonester]

18. Oh, yeah... Rumors of that murderous terrareess, kenny boy lay's

'death' we 'heard' about 2...