Chirac: Bin Laden Intel Not Confirmed

[BlueStorm]

Sorry if this has been posted before.

I thought this might be interesting:

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2006/09/23/483299.html&cvqh=itn_binladen

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."

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.

This information is in no way whatsoever confirmed," Chirac said Saturday when asked about the document. "I have no comment."

Al-Qaida would likely release information of his death fairly quickly if it were true, said Venzke, whose organization also provides counterterrorism intelligence services for the American government.

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[BuyingThyme]

1. Why would anybody ever print the contentions of

two "American intelligence officials"?

[pa28]

2. The original source is, apparently, from the Saudis.

I've heard about Bin-Laden's death on about five separate occasions now. I'm sure the wing-nuts will be all over this to somehow excuse or minimize Bush's failure to catch him.