Rumors of Alan Johnston vs Supportable claims

Little Green Footballs Spreads A Rumor Shocking... Notice that the link leads to a 2 paragraph Jerusalem Post article that has as its only source Al-Hayat. 1) Since when is the fact that another newspaper ran a story considered supporting evidence? 2) Conveniently, that other newspaper is in arabic. The english site has no mention of this. Neither does a site translated by google. So, all we have here is "I heard from a friend who heard" Tags:journalism Little Green Footballs Alan Johnston