Report: Bin Laden dead in Pakistan
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
French President Jacques Chirac said Saturday 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 investigate how a document
from a French foreign intelligence service was published in the
French press.
The regional newspaper l'Est Republicain on Saturday printed what
it described as a copy of a confidential document from the DGSE
intelligence service citing an uncorroborated report from a
"usually reliable source" saying that Saudi secret services are
convinced the leader of the al-Qaida terror network had died.
The DGSE spy agency, or Direction Generale de la Securite
Exterieure, indicated that its information came from a single
source.
