Well if the French weren't the ones reporting I would have more confidence in this report.
However, since we have not seen him on video for a very long time, I have suspected his illness was coming to it's final stages and he looked like hell. Why else would he not want his mug all over our TV as his cohort Zawahiri has dome?
Hope the report is true. But, for some reason, the word "mis-info" keeps creeping into my mind.