(2006-09-23) — United Nations authorities are probing a possible link between reports that al Qaeda leader Usama Bin Laden died recently and the peculiar sulfur smell which Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he detected while speaking to the U.N. General Assembly this week.
Mr. Chavez attributed the aroma to the recent appearance at the podium of “the devil,” a term of endearment for U.S. President George Bush, but chemical experts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it now seems more likely that “someone split Hell wide open recently, permitting the noxious fumes to escape.”
A French publication, L’Est Republicain, today quoted a leaked secret service memo dated September 21 which indicated that Saudi sources believe Mr. Bin Laden died in Pakistan on August 23 of typhoid fever.
An unnamed journalism expert said the fact that the Bin Laden death report was leaked should provide sufficient evidence of its reliability, but the involvement of France and Saudi Arabia makes it “a slam dunk.”
As the rumor that Usama Bin Laden is dead spread worldwide, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) began gearing up to provide massive disaster relief in the so-called ‘blue states’ where FEMA expects members of the Democrat party will be hardest hit.
49 responses so far ↓
1 mig // Sep 23, 2006 at 8:29 am
If it isn’t front page on the NYTimes then we know it’s true!
2 Scott Ott // Sep 23, 2006 at 8:33 am
Experts: Bin Laden Death Might Explain U.N. Sulfur Smell
by Scott Ott
(2006-09-23) — United Nations authorities are probing a possible link between reports that al Qaeda leader Usama Bin Laden died recently and the peculiar sulfur smell which Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he detected…
3 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 23, 2006 at 8:44 am
First thought in my mind:
Wouldn’t it be ironic if the drone-observed funeral the other day was for OBL?
4 Maggie // Sep 23, 2006 at 8:48 am
Scott,
You must have received some money because today’s post is very funny.
5 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 23, 2006 at 8:51 am
I really like the endearing photo of OBL on the AFP page.
What a sweetheart.
6 Maggie // Sep 23, 2006 at 8:53 am
Good Morning JL3rd and Mig,
JL3……I thought the same thing.(great minds and all that stuff)…:>)
7 mig // Sep 23, 2006 at 8:54 am
JL3, Could it be that the drone did see the funeral, and ofcourse had we bombed it, we would have gotten all the Big Wigs of the Muslicrat party.
8 antodav // Sep 23, 2006 at 9:08 am
I hope that this is true. But even if it is…the war is far from over.
9 RedPepper // Sep 23, 2006 at 9:16 am
Careful what you wish for, folks. If it’s true, half the country will believe the WoT is over! Hell, enough already believe it’s some sort of Rovian plot!?!
10 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 23, 2006 at 9:29 am
Mr bush, I grew up near a match factory. I know sulfur smell and Mr Bush-you are no match
Isn’t that how the debate went?
When Osama dies the Mideast will smell of roses
11 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 23, 2006 at 9:29 am
Oh all right, good morning . Now can I see the post
12 Stop The ACLU // Sep 23, 2006 at 9:31 am
Osama Bin Laden Dead?
Hat tip: Gateway Pundit:
Rumors are swirling about that the terror mastermind bit the dust from typhoid. Saudi sources are saying:
“It said he died of a very serious case of typhoid causing partial paralysis of his internal organs.”
Kha…
13 upnorthlurkin // Sep 23, 2006 at 9:35 am
‘Specially liked the term of endearment and the FEMA disaster relief for the blue states. Maestro Ott, you continue to amaze me!! How many times will the Dhimmies get their hopes up only to have them crash down around them?! JL3, the photo all in white….how appropriate…for funeral garb maybe! If Castro hurries, he and UBL can hit the gates of hell together! What a party! Mornin’ all! Rainy and 53° up here!
14 beekabok1 // Sep 23, 2006 at 10:14 am
Died from Typhoid? I guess he won’t be getting his 72 virgins then, will he. After all, he didn’t personally take any “infidels” with him.
15 Moonage Political Webdream // Sep 23, 2006 at 10:21 am
Bin Laden Dead Again?
The U.S. government is unable to confirm a French newspaper report that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is believed to have died last month in Pakistan, a U.S. counterterrorism official said on Saturday. We cannot confirm the account, said
16 GnuCarSmell // Sep 23, 2006 at 11:30 am
Personally, I prefer the smell of a new car.
17 TouchyFeely // Sep 23, 2006 at 12:05 pm
One unamed source indicated that he seemed fine the last time he was sighted, having just finished a delicious spinach and mushroom quiche with good friends Mike Wallace and Babs Streisand.
18 GnuCarSmell // Sep 23, 2006 at 1:10 pm
TouchyFeely - Real mujahaweenies don’t eat quiche.
19 Old War Dogs // Sep 23, 2006 at 1:33 pm
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20 TouchyFeely // Sep 23, 2006 at 2:41 pm
I think Iran’s Imadinawad spoke after Bush. Chavez should know that it’s hard to get rid of the smell of dead babies.
21 Right Wing Sparkle // Sep 23, 2006 at 3:05 pm
The French say Osama Bin Laden is Dead
I would hate to think he died a peaceful death of natural causes (however painful dying of typhoid might be, it would not be painful enough). Although, dying like that would not be the ‘going down in a blaze of gloryÂ’ that most jihadists seem to pray…
22 Blue Star Chronicles // Sep 23, 2006 at 3:18 pm
The French say Osama Bin Laden is Dead
I would hate to think he died a peaceful death of natural causes (however painful dying of typhoid might be, it would not be painful enough). Although, dying like that would not be the ‘going down in a blaze of gloryÂ’ that most jihadists seem to pray…
23 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 23, 2006 at 3:42 pm
Here’s another shot of good news that is not unsubstantiated:
…..Iraqi state television reported that the leader of Ansar al-Sunna, a group with links to al-Qaeda in Iraq, had been captured along with two of his aides.
Muntasir al-Jibouri was arrested in the town of Muqdadiya, about 80km northeast of Baghdad, in the troubled province of Diyala…..
24 prettyold // Sep 23, 2006 at 3:51 pm
There really was a stench at the UN the other day. Uglio brought it with him . All the “anything for money” freeloaders who take Uglio’s free oil ,will soon smell the same way Uglio does. It’s the stench of corruption .
It’s darn near impossible to wash off.
25 Mensa Barbie Welcomes You // Sep 23, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Osama est mort… encore
Investigation is under way… however, information received from “Secret” Saudi security services, is highly likely to be true… YAWN.
26 prettyold // Sep 23, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Ms RightWing,you had something on the last threas that may apply to Bin Laden. Maybe he neglected to get a Typhoid shot ,when he last visited in Venezuela.
D’ya Think?
27 Godfrey // Sep 23, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Wow…lot of trackbacks today! Good job, Scott!
28 Maggie // Sep 23, 2006 at 6:16 pm
prettyold re #24
You have such a way with words…..no one can “get R done” like you can.
29 Possumtrot // Sep 23, 2006 at 6:28 pm
We should be so lucky. I’ll believe it when I see a decompsing body on the floor.
Typhoid is too good for this joker. I always thought he should take a “flying lesson” over Ground Zero. It doesn’t behoove a decent Christian to be so bloodthirsty, but in certain cases, expections can be made.
There is some nonsense about chicken plants and muscle cars over at United Possums International.
It’s September; time to lighten up, embrace the football season, and forget the coming nuclear holocaust. Yah, yah, all gloom and doom makes Jack a dull boy.
Fried chicken and muscle cars…that’s the ticket! How ’bout them Steelers, or Falcons, or Oilers…whoever. Panthers?
30 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 23, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Speaking of chicken, now everybody in the family can have a leg.
31 The Great Santini // Sep 23, 2006 at 7:34 pm
♪ ♪ ♪ TYPHOID MARY ♪ ♪ ♪
[Tune: “Bloody Maryâ€, from “South Pacificâ€, music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, performed by the men’s chorus in the show; © 2006, Santini Serenades]
[Verse]
Typhoid Mary may have…killed a thug
Typhoid mary zapped bin…Laden slug
While spelunking, came down…with the bug
If true, we’re real damn glad!
[Verse]
Yugoâ„¢ Chavez sniffed a…sulfur smell
While he cut the cheese in…UN yell
‘Twas Usama on his…way to hell
Wayward Wahhabi lad!
[Verse]
UBL’s remains wrapped…in a tarp
No more fatwas, anti-…Semite carp
Plays “Sunrise, Sunset†on…his Jew’s harp
Oy, vey! Sheol smells bad!
[Instrumental interlude: UBL on Jew’s harp, Zarqawi on zither, Atta, et al., on Pan flutes, with backup ululations by 72 virgin camels]
[Verse]
Typhoid Mary has a…lethal kiss
Guts inflamed, febrile ‘til…final hiss
Zawahiri’s next on…her hit list
His mug’s downcast and sad!
[Tag]
Typhoid Mary is the bug we love
Usama’s maggot-clad!
32 kajun // Sep 23, 2006 at 8:05 pm
The Great Santini does er again!
33 camojack // Sep 23, 2006 at 8:26 pm
It’s September; time to lighten up, embrace the football season, and forget the coming nuclear holocaust. Yah, yah, all gloom and doom makes Jack a dull boy.
Comment by Possumtrot — September 23, 2006 @ 6:28 pm
Yes, Heaven knows we wouldn’t want Jack to become a dull boy.
But I’m with you; I won’t believe it until I see his rotting corpse, either…
34 myword // Sep 23, 2006 at 9:03 pm
I see Clinton lost his cool in an interview with Chris Wallace. We’ll be able to see the whole interview on Fox News Sunday. He’s revisiting the tired excuse that he “really, really” tried to get Bin Laden unlike “some” people he knows who were in office 8 months and didn’t do a thing.
Eight whole months and no success! As I recall, President Bush didn’t even have his whole team in place in 8 months because he couldn’t get them confirmed. See following:
“The Senate last night broke its latest logjam over President Bush’s judicial and administrative nominations, approving 15 of the nearly 90 nominees that had been held up in a dispute between Bush and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) over an appointment to the Federal Election Commission. …
“Before the White House called McCain late Wednesday to propose a cease-fire, 87 judicial and executive-branch nominations had been awaiting Senate votes, stymied first by a Democratic-Republican feud and then by McCain’s objections. Together, they produced what the Brookings Institution’s Presidential Appointee Initiative says was the longest confirmation drought since 1989.” The Washington Post July 26, 2002
Interesting. With Mc Cain it’s the same old, same old. There’s none so petty as a Presidential candidate scorned. He never got over the 2000 campaign and has been sticking it to Bush whenever he gets the chance.
35 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 23, 2006 at 10:32 pm
Five more people got the spinach poisonin’. Most of you stopped by the cafe and can attest there ain’t no spinach poisoning go on there-but them ruby globes is a killin’ folks real bad.
36 conserve-a-tip // Sep 23, 2006 at 10:53 pm
Possum - re: It’s September; time to lighten up; enjoy football:
Welllll, let me tell you about football. I’m a huge Sooners fan (being as I live 30 minutes from the stadium) and last week’s Oregon game was enough to make this Christian stomp around a bit, but today, my alma mater - Middle Tennessee State University - played OU for the first time. I wanted to attend the game. I was gonna get tickets, but I shared the flu with my hubby and by this afternoon, he was in flu-foid misery. Not quite typhoid, but close. And so, we spent precious money on Pay-per-View.
With grilled steaks, steamed brocolli and rolls, and huge baked potatoes topped with cheese, bacon, butter and sour cream, we sat down enjoy our Midwest beef and to watch the game -he to cheer OU and me to cheer MTSU. Let me tell ya. I never got to cheer. I didn’t even get to jump up and say, “Go! Go!.” The middle of the 4th quarter MTSU had a whopping 66 yards gained. That quarter ended 59-0. So as to your football suggestion: Phooey.
37 conserve-a-tip // Sep 23, 2006 at 10:56 pm
Ms Rightwing, Ink: We know that you wouldn’t serve spinach anyway! You only serve good stuff!
38 streeter // Sep 23, 2006 at 11:01 pm
Stupid song lyric/poem posts are worse than anything. I hope Santini will forever refrain(pun intended).
39 Darthmeister // Sep 23, 2006 at 11:46 pm
Hmmmmm. If Usama bin Laden died of typhoid, then Allah killed him.
40 WilsonB // Sep 24, 2006 at 12:03 am
That funeral they spotted COULDN’T be OBL… we would have seen Kennedy and Dean and the rest of ‘the gang’ in the crowd!
41 Darthmeister // Sep 24, 2006 at 12:30 am
FYI,
Tomorrow we’ll be in our last day at the Danville, Illinois Civil War Days re-enactment which is being held at Kennekuk Cove Park. Threatening weather has kept a good number of re-enactors and spectators away even though we haven’t received more than a few raindrops through Friday and Saturday.
We are re-enacting the battle of Elk Horn Tavern at Pea Ridge, Arkansas where the Union forces were defeated by the Confederates.
It’s the first Danville re-enactment after something like a fifteen year haitus. We have much optimism that the event will build in the coming years. Here’s a photo (scroll to bottom of page) of some of the active members of the 35th Illinois Regiment Co. A taken several years ago. I’m the second soldier from the right in rear rank. The photo was taken when I was wearing a full salt-and-pepper beard. I’m down to a full goatee with sideburns.
42 PanamaRed // Sep 24, 2006 at 12:46 am
So now we are to believe phrench intelligence when the DNC and related dimwits deny that Saddam had WMDs when everyone said he did? Non! When I see the vultures picking his bones, then dying from poisoning, then it will be considered possible.
BTW, aL Zarqwiri’s replacement showed his first video production today, cutting off the head of a Turk, but thanks to our SCOTUS, that doesn’t classify as torture so I assume we will not arrest him for war crimes. Nomination for best new terrorisrt maybe, but the plot is growing old. Streeter: When you’re as good as Santini, then you get to offer critiques, until then, sit down and eat your popcorn.
43 Tinman // Sep 24, 2006 at 1:09 am
#33 myword. That is an excelent observation.
If only Chris Wallace will point this out.
44 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 24, 2006 at 7:55 am
LOL
The NYT alleges that Donald Rumsfeld cheats at squash. They go on to say that this “…..offers a window into Mr. Rumsfeld’s complicated psyche…..” from which they draw the conclusion that, when he doesn’t get a chance to play squash, he gets “cantankerous” and lobs unreasonable attacks upon the LLL/MSM:
“Mr. Rumsfeld packed his squash racket for an August trip to Alaska but never played a game, even though aides reserved courts at two stops. On the last day of the trip, he delivered his most cantankerous speech in months, likening criticism of the Iraq war to appeasement of the Nazis before World War II.”
LOL
It’s a really lame article.
45 R.A.M. // Sep 24, 2006 at 9:15 am
If it was UBL, wouldn’t the smell have been more like a dead skunk?
Just askin’?
46 onlineanalyst // Sep 24, 2006 at 10:14 am
In a building full of rotten eggs, wouldn’t the sulfuric stench of a rotting Bin Laden be a redundancy?
Another leak about the sheik? That was so last week…last month…last year…last several years.
47 Stop The ACLU // Sep 24, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Sunday Funnies
image courtesy of faithmouse
Scrappleface:Bin Laden Death Might Explain U.N. Sulfre Smell.
IMAO finds a new Skynard fan!
Point Five reports on a giant spinach salad buffet sponsored by the Reality Based Community.
Right Jokester: Yo! You, listen up!…
48 Atilla_the_Hun // Sep 25, 2006 at 8:02 am
bin Laden in the Netherworld? It seems that he is movin on up from the caves of Afganistan/Pakistan
49 Dr. Harden Stuhl // Oct 10, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Hey Darth - I am me or at least last time I checked [Haha]. I don’t think anybody else has hijacked my name. Unless - I missed it. Why anybody would what to impersonate me may show some mental instabilty?
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I didn’t read all the troll posts. I tend to step over them lately.
Hey - I couldn’t find that picture. Could you give a direct link? I always think that stuff is so cool. Sounds like a lot of fun. I always wanted to go see some of the reinactments. Are there any places in Western US that do reinactments? I realise the location isn’t right but it would be really cool to see. I can always get on the movie lots [ although the good Doctor never would admit that publically I would be too embarrassed] but it just isn’t the same.
Cheers…
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