Bin Laden Dead Again?

Posted by Moonage on 23 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: International Issues

The U.S. government is unable to confirm a French newspaper report that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is believed to have died last month in Pakistan, a U.S. counterterrorism official said on Saturday.

"We cannot confirm the account," said the official, who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the issue. "It’s quite possible (that) there was some talk of this, but in terms of being able to confirm this, that I can’t do."

The French regional daily L’Est Republicain reported that, according to a French secret service report, Saudi Arabia was convinced that bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan in late August. The French government has said it could not confirm the report and would investigate the intelligence leak.

Well, I won’t be the first person to report I’m highly skeptical of this report.  And, even if he were dead, I don’t think Al Qaeda would be in too big of a rush to report.  It wouldn’t do them any good at all to have Bin Laden drop dead of God inflicted natural causes.  He wouldn’t be a martyr then.  And, for that matter, I’m not sure it would do Bush any good to have Bin Laden drop dead of natural causes either, the US people want to see his corpse.  So, I don’t see us pursuing this rumor to any great degree and I don’t see Al Qaeda fessing up on it either.  We’ll just have to see if he shows up any time soon.  And, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Al Qaeda doesn’t have a whole bunch of stock film to prop him up for a while.

  • And as usual, Scrappleface has an uncanny knack for putting two and two together and getting a touchdown.  They may be on to something.

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