French back off report of bin Laden's death

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

President Jacques Chirac said today 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."

Chirac said he was "a bit surprised" at the leak and has asked Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to probe how a document from a French foreign intelligence service was published in the French press.

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Well, so much for my late night revelry. Nobody at Kos or Eschaton even touched the story, and with good reason--it was obviously just a rumor at 3:30 in the morning, and that's what it is now. But then, all I really wanted to do is gloat. I'm personally not going to believe that bin Laden is dead until they plaster pictures of his body all over the global mass communications grid. So, for now, I guess we should simply file this away as yet another rumor of the supervillain's death.

I swear, this guy really is straight out of Marvel Comics. He's dead, no, he's alive, no, he's dead, haha, he escaped your vile Western clutches once again! I think it's probably time to unfreeze Pat Tillman's body and inject him with the super-soldier serum: only a superhero can take down a supervillain. I swear to god, as long as incompetents are running the show in Washington, it's going to take a lot of spandex and radioactive spiders to get the job done.



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