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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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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / 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.
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CBS News:
French Want Probe Into Bin Laden Leak — Chirac: Osama's Death 'In No Way Whatsoever Confirmed' — (CBS/AP) French 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 …
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.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Osama's dead possibly gravely ill! Update: Alive and well, says Hamid Mir; Update: Video added — Naturally the news breaks on the one morning of the week that I sleep in. — Catching up now. Mary K's got the best round-up. Note in particular the report from Time that she links …
John Ward Anderson / Washington Post:France Looks Into Bin Laden Death Report
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:Bin Laden Dead?
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:Clinton, he's red-faced and angry.
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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.
BBC:
Violence sweeps Iraq on Ramadan — At least 35 people have been killed in a car bomb attack on a kerosene tanker in the mainly Shia district of Sadr City in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. — Nine severed heads were also found in the city of Tikrit as violence swept across the country.
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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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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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Rusty / The Jawa Report:
New Tucker and Menchaca Video: Bodies Desecrated by Terrorists — A new video released by the Mujahidin Shura Council of Iraq shows new footage of the desecration of the bodies of Thomas Tucker and Kristian Menchaca. The Jawa Report has obtained a copy of the video. Graphic Images and link to video below.
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Officials Wary of Electronic Voting Machines — A growing number of state and local officials are getting cold feet about electronic voting technology, and many are making last-minute efforts to limit or reverse the rollout of new machines in the November elections.
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.
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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