- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092300293.html France Looks Into Bin Laden Death Report By John Ward Anderson Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, September 23, 2006; 11:22 AM PARIS, Sept. 23 -- French secret service officials have informed the French government that Saudi Arabia is trying to confirm intelligence reports that Osama bin Laden, the masterminded of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, recently died of typhoid in a remote area of Pakistan, according to a report Saturday in a regional French newspaper. The newspaper L'Est Republicain quoted a confidential report by the French secret service as saying that, "According to a reliable source, Saudi security services are now convinced that Osama bin Laden is dead." Read more here