France said it could not confirm a report on Saturday that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had died in Pakistan last month. The French regional daily L’Est Republicain, published in Nancy, quoted a document from the DGSE foreign intelligence service as saying the Saudi secret services were convinced bin Laden had died of typhoid in late August. French President Jacques Chirac told reporters after a summit with leaders of Germany and Russia that bin Laden’s death “has not been confirmed in any way whatsoever, and so I have no comment to make”. Full Story