Is the creep dead or not...

The French counter-espionage agency, the Direction Générale des Services Extérieurs, or the DGSE has leaked news of the death of al-Qaida's chief, Osama bin Laden in the Saturday edition of l'Est Republicain, a respected regional daily.

The French paper cites a memo they claim was obtained from the French counter-espionage agency stating that Bin Laden, the world's most wanted terrorist is believed to have died last August as a result of typhoid fever while he was in a remote part of Pakistan.

The French intelligence report goes on to say that bin Laden died in Pakistan on August 23 after suffering "from a severe bout of typhoid fever," and a bacterial infection provoked a paralysis of his lower body.

However, a Saudi intelligence source told United Press International: "We are not saying he is dead, but there is a lot of truth in the report." But, the main question is still up in the air with the French standing by their intelligence report.

"There is no way we can prove that bin Laden is dead until we can see the body," the Saudi intelligence source told UPI. However, he stressed, "A good portion of what is in the report is true."

Is the bastard dead, that is the question of the day and just may lead more understanding as to why he did not make an appearance on the anniversary of 9-11, instead a videotape by bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was released to television news networks.

If bin Laden died because of Typhoid fever then at least the inhuman son of the devil suffered, but still it would have been more fitting for him to have died as a result of being blown to kingdom come by a U.S. bomb.