Is Bin Laden Dead?

[chomerics]

I sure hope so. . .

General Michael Hayden, Director of the CIA, walked into the celebration of Saudi Arabia's national day in Washington D.C. and was immediately posed with the question of the day. "Is it true?" Hayden was asked by a Time reporter. "Nope," Hayden said, immediately adding to the accumulating statements on the paucity of evidence that Osama bin Laden was dead. About an hour before, the Saudi government itself declared that it "has no evidence to support recent media reports that Osama bin Laden is dead. Information that has been reported otherwise is purely speculative and cannot be independently verified." Pakistani intelligence sources, who monitor the mountainous regions where Bin Laden is believed to be hiding out, had also dismissed the reports of the terror leader's death. A well placed source in Washington said the idea of Bin Laden's demise appears to have originated as a "hypothesis of some Saudi intelligence analysts with no hard evidence to back it up. No one at a high level is satisfied it's true." At his country's national day celebration in Washington, Saudi Ambassador Prince Turki al-Faisal said, "My understanding is that [bin Laden] is alive and well and kicking. But I may be wrong."

Earlier on Saturday, the French newspaper L'Est Republicain cited a report by the French intelligence service, Direction Generale des Services Exteriors (DGSE), saying that Saudi intelligence officials "seem to have become convinced that Osama bin Laden is dead." The report quoted by the newspaper said the Saudis believe bin Laden "might have succumbed to a very serious case of typhoid fever resulting in partial paralysis of his lower limbs while in Pakistan on August 23, 2006." Echoing that report, a Saudi source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told TIME that Saudi officials have received multiple reports over the last several weeks that Bin Laden has been suffering from a water-borne illness. "This is not a rumor," said the source. "He is very ill. He got a water-related sickness and it could be terminal... But we don't have any concrete information to say that he is dead." The French government has reportedly begun an investigation into the leak of the DGSE report to L'Est Republicain.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1538569,00.html?cnn=yes

[The King]

He has too much money to die from typhoid.

[Kosher Ham]

I still dont know if 2Pac is dead.

Seriously, if and when he dies most of you wont likely find out for a while. And there will still be doubts.

[Guest Rafterman]

I'm still not sure Ken Lay is dead.

[DoGood28]

I would prefer that the U.S. is the one that kills him.

[Mickalino]

He has too much money to die from typhoid.

Money is one thing, accessibility to treatment is another.

When you're hiding out in caves, and running from allied forces trying to hunt you down, it's a bit difficult to maintain quality health care, without getting noticed.

[Maxito]

Was watching CNN in the morning, and one of the medical analyst said that typhoid is treatable with antibiotics if they catch the symptoms in the first 3 days. So it could be possible.

[TheDoyler23]

Show me the body...with a DNA test.

[InsaneBoost]

Hopefully true, but I dont believe anything till its 100% proven.

[DButz65]

Funny, had a friend over tonight and he works at Andrews AFB here in MD, and he was saying dont be surprised if in the news tomorrow, Bin Laden gets reported as KIA/dead. And this was before i read this thread... Things that make you go hmmmm

[WVUforREDSKINS]

I don't think we will ever really know for sure. We could hear rumors and then another tape might come out.

[twa]

I like this version.... I want it to be true. Typhoid. It means he really did eat **** and die, just like I put on my Christmas list. :laugh:

There are two phases of classic typhoid fever:

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1st phase: the patient's temperature rises gradually to

40ºC and the general condition becomes very poor with bouts of sweating, no

appetite, coughing and

headache.

Constipation and skin

symptoms may be the clearest symptoms. Children often vomit and have diarrhoea.

The first phase lasts a week and towards the end the patient shows increasing

listlessness and clouding of consciousness.

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2nd phase: in the second to third weeks of the disease,

symptoms of intestinal infection are manifested and the fever remains very high

and the pulse becomes weak and rapid. In the third week the constipation is

replaced by severe pea-soup-like diarrhoea. The faeces may also contain blood.

It is not until the fourth or fifth week that the fever drops and the general

condition slowly improves.

Complications

Intestinal perforation or profuse bleeding from the intestinal

mucosa may occur if typhoid fever is left untreated.

Could not have happened to a better person IF true.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/197888.php

[DButz65]

Could not have happened to a better person IF true.

True dat! Sounds so torturous and painfull! *crosses fingers*

[nelms]

I actually think I like this death scenario better than a smart bomb taking him out. This way he gets to suffer a long time time, which gives him plenty of time to think about why he is in this predicament. It may be 5 or 6 years down the road, but if you eff with this country, you will ultimately pay the price.

[Chief skin]

NO I think alqaeda would make a big thing of the event you know something like the pig has gone to allah to be with the rest of the scum, death of a big **** over is made into days and days of mourning a big event

[Cdowwe]

hope so, and hope it was long and painful

[Air Force Cane]

if you actually think about strategy though- the jihadis have NO reason to ever publicize his death.

keeping him "alive" for the next five decades gives them a figurehead and a belief in hope and victory.

they already have enough shaheed martyrs. if they were smart even once we kill him they should deny it and say he is planning more attacks..