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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend.... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (17300)	1/21/2006 3:02:37 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35834

The bin Laden book club How the world's most notorious terrorist just launched an obscure left-wing American author into bestseller stardom. By Michael Scherer Watch out, Oprah Winfrey, Osama bin Laden has jumped into the book-promotion game. On Wednesday, the 72-year-old Washington author William Blum existed only on the fringes of the publishing industry. His 2000 foreign-policy diatribe, "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower," ranked No. 205,763 on Amazon's bestseller list. His byline rarely appeared in print, he says, because even left-leaning journals like the Nation often found his views too radical. But then the world's No. 1 newsmaker, bin Laden, showed up Thursday on the Al-Jazeera network to promise another terrorist attack on America, ask President Bush to withdraw American troops -- and plug Blum's book. "If Bush decides to carry on with his lies and oppression," the reclusive terrorist announced, in a video message bounced to a potential audience of billions, "it would be useful for you to read the book 'Rogue State'." salon.com OSAMA'S FAVE WRITER IS PLEASED By NILES LATHEM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 21, 2006 -- WASHINGTON — A Brooklyn-born writer said yesterday he had "no problem" being quoted by Osama bin Laden in his latest diatribe and added he shares the arch-terrorist's opposition to American foreign policy. "I wasn't upset at all," activist-writer William Blum told The Post when he heard bin Laden quoted him in his recent audio-taped message. "I was surprised and kind of amused. It's good publicity for my book." Bin Laden mentioned Blum's book called "Rogue State" and then quoted a passage from a separate 2002 essay by Blum... nypost.com