Osama bin dead?

This report, via Google ads, claims the Saudis and the French have been told that bin Laden has died of typhoid, although whether recently or a good while ago is unclear. Lots of things about al Q are unclear, of course, but one also has to wonder why the reporting Brit media in this case superimposes an ad and a toolbar over its story, making it hard (but not impossible) to read. But the idea of Osama bin forgotten dying of typhoid is plausible. For one thing, as I have said all along, the religious showman who used to hold news conferences stopped making videos in 2004. Supposedly, if one is to believe the CIA (the gang that can’t think straight), he’s limited himself to audiotapes ever since. But the best reason to believe typhoid might have caught him is that Osama’s idea of heaven-on-earth was the 7th Century. Lawrence Wright’s "The Looming Tower," makes it clear that Osama and his wives and children lived in rags and squalor in Afghanistan, without running water or toilets, even before 9/11, and that the O man preferred it to modern conveniences. Typhoid, after all, is spread by fecal-contaminated water.