Typhus, not a bullet or a bomb is the reason.
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.
L’Est Republicain printed what it said was a copy of the report dated September 21 and said it was shown to President Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and France’s interior and defence ministers on the same day.
“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.”
I’m not holding my breath.
Nitpicky point. Buried in your mucked up link you have “Typhus, not a bullet or a bomb is the reason.” The article says typhoid, not typhus. Those are two different diseases.
I thought “typhoid” was the adjectival form of typhus, and when used alone was a contraction of “typhoid fever”. No?
I thought the same thing, but wikipedia says they’re unrelated. Interesting.
According to NYT :
Don’t break out the champagne yet. Still, the possibility cheered me up.
Really Not All That Bright:
I thought “typhoid” was the adjectival form of typhus, and when used alone was a contraction of “typhoid fever”. No?
No. They’re different diseases. See http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001363.htm and http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001332.htm
AskNott
September 23, 2006, 10:03pm
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When I first heard about this, I thought of the end of War Of The Worlds . Tiny, calm organisms did what man’s mighty engines of war could not.