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...lower limbs while in Pakistan on August 23, 2006." Echoing that report, a Saudi source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told TIME that Saudi officials have received multiple reports over the last several weeks that Bin Laden has been suffering from a water-borne illness. "This is not a rumor," said the source. "He is very ill. He got a water-related sickness and it could be terminal... But we don't have any concrete information to say that he is dead." The French government has reportedly begun an investigation into the leak of the DGSE report...
...maunderings that have surrounded it. The cops may have been inept, but there is no reason to suppose that they were deviously protecting a psychotic murderer. Nor is there any reason to imagine that the criminal was socially well connected or was a Hollywood type (even though a preposterous rumor, repeated dismissively in a recent biography, put no less a figure than Orson Welles under suspicion). The likelihood is that this was one of those dreadful crimes that emerge from the psychopathic minds and was in no way motivated by general social conditions or, indeed, by anything-other than perhaps...
...stories on that day of looting were wildly overstated. It's not good that the press reported that, but it is a footnote to the overall coverage which riveted the nation over the lack of response." She added: "I think for Congress to cast the media response as rumor-mongering is to miss the forest for the trees...
...fighters in black are back in force after two weeks of hiding in bunkers. They patrol the neighborhood on scooters like a mini-motocross militia, separating the would-be looters from families who have returned to inspect the damage. Suddenly, the battered blocks echo with celebratory gunfire as the rumor spreads that a Hizballah missile has hit an Israeli warship in Tyre. Fearing a retaliatory strike, the families leave...
...militia, the Badr Corps, which has close ties to Iran, in control of the Ministry of Interior. The second proposal was chilling. "We could partition Baghdad," said a general. "It's beginning to partition itself." But if the city were divided along the Tigris River-a popular rumor in the Iraqi blogosphere-approximately 1 million Sunnis would be stranded on the Shi'ite side and vice versa. "The human catastrophe would be extraordinary," said an Army colonel. If partition happens, an Iraqi official told Reuters, "Iraq as a political project is finished," and chaos ensues. Colonel Hammes identified a more...