Author "Amazed and Amused" by Book Plug From bin Laden ("Rogue State")

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http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/sefton012006.html

Author `Amazed and Amused' by Book Plug From bin Laden

WASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden has a book recommendation for you.

In the audiotape released Thursday, the al-Qaida leader said: "If you (Americans) are sincere in your desire for peace and security, we have answered you. And if (President) Bush decides to carry on with his lies and oppression, then it would be useful for you to read the book `Rogue State."'

That would be "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower," published in May 2000 with a new edition in November 2005. Its author is William Blum of Washington, D.C.

But bin Laden was mistaken about a quote he read that he attributed to the Introduction of "Rogue State." He actually read an excerpt from another of Blum's books, "Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire."

"He made a mistake, he got them mixed up," Blum said.

Blum has been speaking out against American foreign policy for nearly 40 years. He said he left a U.S. State Department job in 1967 because he opposed the Vietnam War, and has been writing and lecturing since then.

:crazy:

[pitohui]

1. one thing we now know

osama has read more books than bush, who is only known to have read the goat book

[boobooday]

2. Hmmmmm . . .

Given that OBL's latest message sounds like BushCo talking points; given that a professor at Duke is disputing whether the tape is even real, or recent; and given the fact that they are misquoting a domestic critic of the administration . . .

There can only be one answer. This sounds like a Karl Rove operation. What better way to reinforce the "critics give aid and comfort to the enemy" than by having OBL cite such a book?

Just wait, the frothing right-wing pundits will be using this one asap.

I don't believe Osama exists anymore. At least not in the form described by BushCo.