Yeah, Right, Whatever

A fwench newspaper is reporting that Osama bin Laden has assumed cave temperature, thanks to a run in with typhoid fever.

A French regional newspaper quoted a French secret service report on Saturday as saying that Saudi Arabia is convinced that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan last month.

..."According to a usually reliable source, the Saudi services are now convinced that Osama bin Laden is dead," the document said.

"The information gathered by the Saudis indicates that the head of al Qaeda was a victim while he was in Pakistan on August 23, 2006, of a very serious case of typhoid which led to a partial paralysis of his internal organs."

The report, which was stamped with a "confidential defense" label and the initials of the French secret service, said Saudi Arabia first heard the information on September 4 and that it was waiting for more details before making an official announcement.

Well, drat. It's not that I'm not happy about the prospects of this story. I was just hoping he'd meet a more... Special Forces type ending. But, I guess, in this way, it's harder to make him out to be a martyr. Not that they won't try...