Bin Laden death not confirmed

We woke up to reports of Osama's death, in Pakistan, of typhoid Fever, probably last month. There is nothing, at present, to verify these reports.

If it is true; that bin Laden is dead from typhoid, the Bush administrtion has just been bombed. Rumsfeld dropping dead would not be nearly the blow this is.

Osama bin Laden was the Bushite Bogeyman; the man responsible for the worst attack on U.S. soil since the war of 1812, or so the story goes. They were as dependent on him as he was on them.

Can one go on without the other?

How much longer will people care about BuCheney's GWOT, with the almost mythical bin Laden gone? Unless, of course, another hit can be arranged, devised by another bogeyman.



Bin Laden death not confirmed:

Washington - US intelligence agencies 'can't confirm' a French newspaper report that al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden died in August in his hideout in Pakistan, a US official said on Saturday.
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I can't confirm that account,' said the government official, who spoke to AFP on the condition that neither his name nor his affiliation would be revealed.

The French newspaper l'Est Republicain reported earlier on Saturday that Saudi intelligence had concluded that bin Laden might have succumbed to typhoid fever - at some point between August 23 and September 4 - while hiding in Pakistan.

French President Jacques Chirac said earlier that the newspaper report was 'in no way confirmed.'