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The French Ministry of Defence has indirectly confirmed reports of a secret service report on Osama Bin Laden’s presumed death from typhoid.
Though a spokesman could not confirm the reports as published in ‘L’Est Republicain’ newspaper, the Ministry announced an investigation into how a ‘top secret’ document of that kind could have been leaked to the media.
The newspaper revealed that the news about Osama Bin Laden’s death was communicated to the French secret service by their Saudi counterparts, who explained that the world’s most wanted terrorist died of a typhoid paralysis on the 23 August somewhere in the Pakistani mountains.
The report also explained that the Saudi secret services are doing their best to locate the area where Bin Laden may have been buried, in order to confirm his death.
The news about his death is reported to have reached Paris last Thursday, and was immediately communicated to President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.
Other officials who were informed about Bin Laden’s presumed death were Home Affairs Minister Nicholas Sarkozy and Defense Minister Alliot Marie.
Meanwhile, intelligence experts and government officials in the United States have also not been in a position to confirm or deny the report.
They said that although the word is around that Bin Laden may have died, there is still no evidence to prove it.
Osama Bin Laden’s last video apparition dates back to end 2004.
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