Bin-Laden Possibly Dead from Typhoid

This is breaking news! I'd been hearing rumours for the past 24-hours but now it seems to be being confirmed that Osama Bin Laden is dead. I would have thought kidney failure would finish the bastard off, but it appears Typhoid fever is the culprit. Here's the story from the Post Chronicle:

"Typhoid Fever kills Osama bin Laden? Typhoid Fever may have killed bin Laden or has made him gravely ill, according to Saudi intelligence sources cited by a French newspaper quoting French intelligence sources. The newspaper says a document was leaked to them by French intelligence.

Time magazine is reporting that Saudi sources have told them that Bin Laden contracted a waterborne illness and is gravely ill and could have already died. The news of the unconfirmed death of al-Qaeda's No.1 was reported in the Saturday edition of l'Est Republicain.

The world's most wanted terrorist, according to the French newspaper, is believed to have died last August 23. A Saudi intelligence source told United Press International: "We are not saying he is dead, but there is a lot of truth in the report." The Saudi source, who spoke on condition that his name not be revealed, confirmed that according to Saudi Arabian intelligence "bin Laden was very ill these past few weeks."

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So all they really know is that it was a waterborne illness. Well, hell, with any luck he could have gotten Cholera! That's waaay more grisly than Typhoid!