Osama's Book Club.

[Raydawg1234]

Oprah move over. Even while dodging the American army and the CIA, Osama still finds time to enjoy his beloved past time. Osama is a book worm, a real man of culture, some might even say hip. Some of his favorite titles include, Death to America, the Koran, Bush is from Mars Saddam is from Venus, and oh yes...his most recent favorite, Rogue State, by William Blum.
:sarcasm:

In all seriousness though, the reference to Rogue State raises serious concerns over the authenticity of the newest Bin Laden tape. If Rogue State has never been published in Arabic, this may be the smoking gun that we are looking for. I have made inquiries to the publisher of this book, and am awaiting their response. I doubt that Bin Laden had time to have someone translate this book for him.

[Sal Minella]

1. How about the guy who translated the OBL speech from English

into Arabic? He probably wasn't busy at the time........

[CJCRANE]

2. I heard it was a special edition only available from the

Supervillain's Mobile Library Service.

"Ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no river deep enough, to keep books from you"

[babylonsister]

3. You could have a very valid point there. Wasn't this book just

recently released in the US? I know Olbermann profiled it last week. :think:

[Raydawg1234]

4. copyright 2000, But it still raises concerns. I emailed the publisher,

Hopefully they'll let me know.

[babylonsister]

5. Ah, maybe KO brought it up because

OBL did, or the-ahem-people who wrote his speech.

[LeftCoast]

6. According to Wikipedia, it looks like he speaks english

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_laden

A woman who in 1971 had attended an English language course with bin Laden recalled him saying with some sadness that his mother was a concubine <5>.

[Raydawg1234]

7. But we have never heard him speak English,

and when U.S. reporters talked to him in the 90's they used a translator.

I took Spanish class, but I still cannot speak or read Spanish for my life.