“The same intelligence report”
THAT worries me. Whose intelligence? American? I am not sure I trust American Intelligence organizations any more than I trust the BATFE. All of their track records over the past 25 years leave a lot to be desired.
“I am not sure I trust ....”
Well, then don’t trust it. Trust your won lying eyes. Look at the still photographs and the videos of the Airbus engines and fuselage. I see no shrapnel holes in them, do you? When the Russians shot down Flight MH17 over the Ukraine, you could immediately see the shrapnel holes in the pieces of the fuselage. Even if you pretend all such holes were located only in the pieces of the fuselage and tail that burned, the pieces of shrapnel that became embedded would still remain undestroyed in the wreckage. If such pieces were in the unburned or burned wreckage, they would be quickly discovered by the investigators on the crash sites. I haven’t seen any of them report the finding of any such pieces of shrapnel, have you?
So, if you cannot trust your own eyes when looking for shrapnel holes that are not there, then what are you going to trust?