ROVE'S OCTOBER SURPRISE?

With a week left to go in September, is this the October surprise Rove has been promising his legions?

France probes report of bin Laden's death

Unconfirmed report says Saudi convinced terror chief died in Pakistan

PARIS - The French defense ministry on Saturday called for an internal investigation of the leak of an intelligence document that raises the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan a month ago but said the report of the death remained unverified.

Typhoid? Typhoid?

I'm going to start printing up the t-shirts: We paid $500 billion and all we got was Osama with typhoid.

So much for cowboy justice. If this story turns out to be true — and I doubt it — wouldn't a germ have triumphed where Bush could not?

— skimble