Bin Laden Book Blurb

[communist fanatic]

William Blum's book sales surges

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americ...ticle340375.ece (http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article340375.ece)

[JazzRemington]

I figured. I wonder what the Bush administration's take on this is.

[Severian]

Their take on it is: "They hate us because we're free."

Blum's take is: They are attacking the U.S. because of U.S. intervention in Muslim countries. U.S. imperialist intervention should be ended.

So basically, bin Laden is endorsing an interpretation of his previous statements. That's the one kind of bin Laden endorsement that's actually kinda worth having.

Here's the text of bin Laden's statement (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-text20jan20,0,7047146.story?coll=la-headlines-world)

Among other things, you can see the much-discussed call for a "truce" is not anything new, but simply al-Qaeda's long-stated position that attacks will end when U.S. intervention in the Middle East ends.

[cormacobear]

William Blum isn't "obscure" he's brilliant. Academics have been using his research for decades.

[commiecrusader]

I know I didn't realize so few people had heard of him. I'd heard of this book ages ago although admittedly I haven't got round to reading it yet.


So basically, bin Laden is endorsing an interpretation of his previous statements. That's the one kind of bin Laden endorsement that's actually kinda worth having.
Whilst I by no means agree with most of bin Laden's ideas, or his methods, at least he is trying to do something for what he believes in. Although I guess you could say the same thing about Hitler so...

[BuyOurEverything]

That's interesting. Perhaps when people actually read the book, and realize that it is the view supported by a large portion of the Muslim world (even the 'extremist' part) they will get a different view of the whole conflict.

[Intifada]

Bin Laden looks to have done the anti-imperialists a favour...

... but he is still a knob.

[Atlas Swallowed]

Gee, Bin Laden associating to American progressives. Why do all of Bin ladens actions seem to be politically benificial to the Bush/neo-con agenda. As far as I know the only ones to verify his voice as authentic is the Porter Goss(neo-con stooge) controlled CIA. Bin Ladens previous tape was most likely a fake.

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.htm...251&sid=1485474 (http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=2251&sid=1485474)

Shit a guy that was supposedly living in a cave on kidney dialysis 5 years ago is probably long dead.

[Sankara1983]

I'm certainly not going to get rid of my copy of Rogue State just because a fake bin Laden (BTW, a vicious killer who deserves none of our support) "endorses" it.

I agree with the above: the talking heads on right-wing TV and radio are attacking "radical leftists" (like Ted Kennedy and Hillary Rodham Clinton) because their half-assed opposition to a handful of Bush's strategies in Iraq supposedly matches the rhetoric of bin Laden.