Bin Laden Said Wounded by Shrapnel, Now Recovered

[MaggieL]

Originally posted by Tobiasly

a) I believe has a decent amount of credibility because, like you said, that arm appeared wounded in the video. And when we received the video, if I'm not mistaken, our intelligence placed it somewhere in the end-of-December timeframe. So OBL being wounded in the shoulder, then escaping Tora Bora and recovering, seems entirely believable to me. Again, not a fact or definite by any means, just pretty believable.

All it says is that the journalist saw the same video that we did, and knows that we saw it. He made sure that the verifiable parts of his story jived with what *is* known. He's have to be a real dimwit to write a story that *contradicted* what is known. The *un*verifiable part of his story must still stand or fall on it's own merits.