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Scott Macleod / Time:
Is Bin Laden Dead? — Saudi sources tell TIME that credible reports suggest the fugitive Qaeda leader has contracted a serious 'water-borne illness,' and may have already died — Fugitive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, believed to be on the run in rugged terrain in the Afghan-Pakistani …
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Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Big News: bin Laden dead; Bigger News: Ansar al Sunnah Head Captured! — Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta today! First, bin Laden is reportedly dead. Or dying. Or whatever. In any event, I don't believe it. But it's the kind of rumor I dig. Thanks to everyone that e-mailed it to me.
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CNN:
Rumors swirl over bin Laden's fate … PARIS, France (CNN) — Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has a water-borne illness, a Saudi intelligence source told CNN on Saturday, a report that conflicts with an article in a French newspaper saying that the man who has been hunted by the United States for the past five years is dead.
Associated Press:
France Looks Into bin Laden Death Report — PARIS (AP) - The French defense ministry on Saturday called for an internal investigation of the leak of an intelligence document that raises the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan a month ago but said the report of the death remained unverified.
Reuters:
U.S. can't confirm bin Laden death report: official — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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.
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Think Progress:
Fox News Sunday, Interview With President Bill Clinton, 9/22/06 (Rough Transcript) — WALLACE: In a recent issue of the New Yorker you say you're sixty years old and you're worried about how many lives you can save...Is that what drives you in your effort to help? — CLINTON: Yes.
Agence France Presse:
French newspaper says Saudis believe bin Laden dead — A French newspaper published what it said was a report by the country's intelligence services that said Saudi Arabia believes Osama bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan this month. — France's foreign intelligence service, the DGSE …
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Claude Salhani / UPI:
Analysis: Is bin Laden truly dead? — Osama bin Laden is dead. At least according to Saudi intelligence sources cited by a French newspaper, which in turn claims to have obtained a document leaked to them by French counter-intelligence services. — The news of the death of al-Qaida's chief …
John Ward Anderson / Washington Post:France Looks Into Bin Laden Death Report
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Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall:AP France Unconfirmed Report: Osama bin Laden Dead?
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:Bin Laden Dead?
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:Osama's dead possibly gravely ill! Update: Likely or not?
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:Clinton, he's red-faced and angry.
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Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Congress in dark on terror program — Few briefed on CIA interrogation — WASHINGTON — As lawmakers prepare to debate the CIA's special interrogation program for terrorism suspects, fewer than 10 percent of the members of Congress have been told which interrogation techniques have been used in the past …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:Everyone — including Democrats — agrees to pretend that Bush …
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat — A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Sinan Salaheddin / Associated Press:
Bomb ignites tanker in Iraq, killing 35 — BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bomb blew up a kerosene tanker and killed at least 35 people Saturday in a Shiite slum in Baghdad, while authorities announced the capture of a leader of the group believed to be behind the 2004 attack on a U.S. military mess hall.
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Judd / Think Progress:
Chris Wallace Has Never Asked A Bush Administration Official About The USS Cole — The USS Cole was bombed on October 12, 2000. As Clinton noted in his interview with Fox, "The CIA and the FBI refused to certify that Bin Laden was responsible" until early 2001 which foreclosed the possibility …
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Mark McDonald / Philly.com:
No ifs, butts: Smoking ban starts 'immediately' — Mayor Street said yesterday that the city will begin enforcing the new smoking-ban law "immediately," a development that caught a number of bar and restaurant operators by surprise. — "We can't pick and choose when we enforce the law," Street said.
Maggie Michael / Associated Press:
Abbas says unity effort 'back to zero' — CAIRO, Egypt - Efforts to form a Palestinian government acceptable to the West have gone "back to zero," Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday, a day after Hamas said a coalition government that recognizes Israel is unacceptable.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Unleashing The Beast — I have written often about how the Republicans are becoming what they railed against for decades: totalitarians. Unsurprisingly I suppose, it turns out that what they really hated about Soviet communism was the economics. The 50 years of ranting about personal liberty …
khaleejtimes.com:
Ramadan — month of prayer for Muslims, of "holy war" for extremists — In the first reported bloodshed of the holy month, at least 31 people were killed by a bomb in a Shiite stronghold of Iraq where calls for "jihad', or holy war, echoed earlier threats of attacks in the Gulf and on Israel.
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Howie Klein / Firedoglake:
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