Bin Laden rumors again come to nothing

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060926/ap_on_re_as/osama_dead_again

He was blown up in the caves of Tora Bora. He was on dialysis and dying of kidney disease. He was in the hands of Pakistani intelligence and about to be turned over to the United States. Rumors of Osama bin Laden's death or capture go back years, and they have always proved greatly exaggerated.

The latest came Saturday, when a leaked French intelligence document citing a "usually reliable" source said the Saudi secret service was convinced the 52-year-old al-Qaida terror chief had died of typhoid last month in Pakistan.

Officials from Riyadh to Paris to Washington rushed to insist they had nothing to substantiate the report, but not before news of it reached every corner of the globe and renewed the debate about why the world's largest dragnet has failed to get its man.

"There has been a grave failure five years after 9/11 that the true leaders of the attacks are still free, and that they are still alive," said Rohan Gunaratna, head of terrorism research at Singapore's Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies.

Gunaratna cited comments by bin Laden's no. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, released on the fifth anniversary of the attacks, as evidence the French report was erroneous.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. As they always say, Bin Laden is worth a lot more on the loose

than captured or dead.

[Parche]

2. osama

I thought they said he died of 'macaca' disease 6months ago.........????

[Chipper Chat]

3. So what if Rove goes for the Hail Mary and says "we got 'em"

a day before the elections. Bin Laden wont deny it, as he know keeping the Bush Junta in power benefits the movement. Rove's a genius and knows 50% of the murkan public is supid. When it comes out Nov. 10th that he is still alive American Idol will be in full swing, and a new blond missing girl will dominate CNNMSGOPFUX.