Here's how we know whether the newest Osama bin Laden video is genuine:
The video was obtained early yesterday by U.S. intelligence officials and was first made public on the Web site of the SITE Institute, a D.C.-based nonprofit group that studies terrorist organizations. The circumstances of its release were unusual: No copy of the video had appeared on Islamic Web sites as of yesterday, as has been the norm for past al-Qaeda videos. A spokesman for SITE declined to comment on how it obtained the most recent video.
This is far from the first time that SITE has had an al-Q'aeda video before al-Q'aeda did. SITE never says where they get them. So why do you believe anything else they tell you?
Here's how we know whether the newest Osama bin Laden video is genuine: