re: #4 Bob Levin

Also, that’s what newspapers do, they cite other newspapers. For the original sourced stuff you mention, that’s the job of scholarly journals.

No. The origanal report came from a government fact finding body. Jpost had two options, report what the government body said, or report what another newspaper said another government body said. They chose the later because it made the story seem more credible.

This wasn’t some investigative reporting piece where Al Ahram was the only organization to put the pieces together, it was a simple restatement of an Egyptian government report.