You asked — “Sorry, just what did you consider the “main premise” and when was it you demomstrated that it didn’t hold together ?”
The main premise of the article is that an “anonymous student” — believes — that Waleed distracted the shooter and saved his life.
The main premise of the article is not based on fact, but just a supposition of belief from a student we have no idea even exists. Since it’s a “belief” and since we can’t even find the student — it’s not been proven to be anything else other than one of those Dan Rather — “the document may be fake, but the story is true”. So, likewise, the student may be fictitious, but the story is true.
Regards,
Star Travelr
In this article Dymond doesn’t mention anything about an email.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/20/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Virginia-Tech-Shooting.php
Randy Dymond, a civil engineering professor, said Shaalan was credited with distracting gunman Cho Seung-Hui to save the life of a fellow student.
Dymond, who attended a service for Shaalan Thursday, said the Egyptian was in the first classroom Cho attacked and was badly wounded. Cho returned to the room twice to search for signs of life.
During one of those incidents, a second student who was uninjured, was playing dead. When Shaalan noticed Cho making a move to shoot the student, the Egyptian made a “protective movement to basically decoy the killer into thinking it was him making any kind of sound instead of the survivor,” Dymond said.
Dymond declined to give the name of the student who survived, but said the student wanted him to tell the story “so that the family of Waleed understands the sacrifice.”