bin laden endorse's book

[namvet]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060123/od_nm/binladen_book_dc;_ylt=AoaUV37VIvjo_G42J8jnP.Ws0NUE ;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc-

William Blum's "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower" was ranked 209,000 on Amazon.com's sales list before bin Laden mentioned it in an audiotape released on Thursday. By Friday, the book was No. 30 on the Amazon.com list.

Bin Laden said al Qaeda group was preparing more attacks in the United States but also told Americans, "It is useful for you to read the book 'The Rogue State.'"

"I was quite surprised and even shocked and amused when I found out what he'd said," Blum said on Friday in an interview with Reuters Television in his Washington apartment.

"I was glad. I knew it would help the book's sales and I was not bothered by who it was coming from.

"If he shares with me a deep dislike for the certain aspects of U.S. foreign policy, then I'm not going to spurn any endorsement of the book by him. I think it's good that he shares those views and I'm not turned off by that.".

[Arbiter]

This is kinda random and off topic so if it needs to be deleted please do so and im sorry :icon_wink

FT whats with the smileys? im just curioussss cuz recently it seems youve had a hayday:icon_mrgr . Anyhowss sorry if thats too random and off its just been burnin a hole through my keyboard.

[Dagummit]

I don't remember this topic coming up...and in namvet's defense FT, that was one single post (#15) that anyone could have overlooked. Not everyone reads every single thread and every single post. I myself don't do a search for something that someone "may" have mentioned. But really who cares if it is mentioned again??? Besides if namvet would have done that on the other thread, he would have gotten yelled at for hijacking that particular thread.

Anyways, to the thread at hand...I think that author Blum is a jackass just like Michael Moore...they look as if they were made with the same cookie cutter.