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- Caveat: This is Unconfirmed
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- China News Service and Yomiuri Report Osama
and Omar Were Assassinated
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- Strong Caveat: This is the first and only such report
that appeared several hours ago, off of Chinese and Japanese news wires,
and is unconfirmed. Therefore it is just an advisory that such a report
has been filed. Merits considerable skepticism while checking its
validity.
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- Report by China News Service quoting Japanese source
in Tokyo per the following (translated by AIT from Chinese from the site
at: http://www.chinane
ws.com.cn/2001-10-24/26/133210.html/
in Chinese, and http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/05/
20011024id36.htm
in Japanese):
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- Chinese News Service Reports: Osama bin Laden
Killed?
- Filed by Hiroyuki Sugiyama Yomiuri Shimbun
Reporter
based in Beijing
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- Based on Japanese sources in Tokyo, news report (s) has
been received that on October 16th, both the leader of Taliban Afghanistan
Omar and the leader of AlQaida, Osama bin Laden, were both shot and killed
in Afghanistan, by elements within their ranks. However at this time no
other news sources have confirmed the assassinations.
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- The CNS news report stated that it is reported that Omar
and Bin Laden had returned to one of the underground Taliban bases near
Kandahar in the south, at approximately 11 a.m. local time in Afghanistan
on 16 October. As the two and others were entering the underground base,
it was reported an ally fired upon his (Omar's) back from the rear. The
report is that Omar was hit in the upper torso, and bin Laden was hit once
in the chest and once in the upper left shoulder area. Both expired at
that location.
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- The report goes on to say that accompanying bin Laden
were one of his sons and this son's wife, who were also hit with gunfire
in the chest, waist and shoulder areas, and they too have reported suffered
fatal wounds from this attack. The second eldest son of Omar also suffered
a gunshot wound to the right side of his lower torso, and escaped the
shooting,
but expired on the following day." End of Text
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- Only in the event that this could be true, The
information
is passed on, only in the event this could be true, but the report is not
appearing in the English language press yet. The Japanese information
source
was also not quoted by name. Either it is true, partially true or it is
false (disinformation or non-credible reports), but it deserves multiple
independent confirmation, seeing as Yomiuri Shimbun carried it and Yomiuri
is a large, reputable mainline daily Japanese news source. They, too, had
their skepticism in the title, but chose to run the story anyway. Finally,
no other Japanese news services are running at this time.
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