Yes, a book of OBL's writing is being published..........!!!!
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By Frank Green
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
July 6, 2005
Books to stack on the
bedside table this
fall: "Harry Potter
and the Half-Blood
Prince," "1776" . . .
"Messages to the
World – The
Statements of Osama
bin Laden"?
A New York-based
publisher of scholarly
and general-interest
titles, many of them
with a leftish political
slant, said yesterday
that it will release a
compendium of the terrorist fugitive's
speeches and written tracts to help the
American public better understand his
bloody guerrilla philosophy.
But the project raises questions about
whether profit earned, however indirectly,
from terrorist activities isn't so much blood
money – akin to reissuing a hate-filled
screed like Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf."
It's revenue "made off the words of a
criminal mastermind who murdered
30,000-plus Americans," said Scott
McConnell, editor and publisher of The
American Conservative magazine. " . . . It's
regrettable."
Bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network has
claimed responsibility for the Sept. 11,
2001, World Trade Center and Pentagon
attacks, as well as other atrocities.
"Messages to the World" nevertheless
could find a place on the shelf with kindred
notorious products such as Charles
Manson's music albums ("Way of the Wolf,"
"Live at San Quentin," among others) and
artwork by Richard Ramirez, the so-called
Night Stalker.
Next month, Morning Star Communications
plans to publish "Son of Hope," the prison
journals of "Son of Sam" murderer David
Berkowitz.
Verso Books, which has issued best sellers
by the likes of Noam Chomsky, Rep. Bernie
Sanders, I-Vt., and Alexander Cockburn,
said the 224-page bin Laden hardback will
have an initial press run of 20,000 copies
selling for $24 apiece.
"We've had great interest (in the title) from
book chains and university stores," said
Amy Scholder, Verso's general manager.
Some scholars said yesterday that they
were more concerned about where the
tome's sales revenue might be funneled
than whether the book could be used by
militants in the U.S. as a sort of
inspirational text.
Bin Laden's writings are already
well-represented on the Internet, noted Jim
Phillips, a research fellow specializing in
Middle East affairs at the Heritage
Foundation in Washington, D.C.
"The question is, where does the money go
after people buy the book," said Phillips,
stressing that the work could serve a
valuable educational function if it presents
bin Laden's ideology in a balanced fashion.
If it has a positive spin and promotes the
idea that "people will be happier when the
infidels are killed, that's another thing," he
added.
Verso said yesterday that no money from
the book's sales will benefit bin Laden or
any terrorist organizations.
The publisher "has no interest in
supporting" al-Qaeda, Scholder said.
"Messages to the World" was translated
and edited by Islamic scholar Bruce
Lawrence, a professor of religion at Duke
University.
He has written several books, including
"Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist
Revolt Against the Modern Age."
Lawrence said yesterday that he has no
intention of glorifying bin Laden, whom he
described as "a devil we need to know."
The book traces how the terrorist's
message and strategy have evolved in the
past year, connecting strands of bin
Laden's Koranic scholarship, CIA training,
interventions in Persian Gulf politics and
messianic anti-imperialism that have come
to make up the foundation of al-Qaeda's
deadly program.
"We've heard more about bin Laden
publicly in the last five years than anybody
with an Arabic name," Lawrence said.
However, most translations of bin Laden's
work available in the West have been flat
and stale, and rife with misspellings and
bad punctuation, Lawrence said.
Some of bin Laden's prose "is actually quite
dazzling," he said.
Frank Green: (619) 293-1233;
frank.green@uniontrib.com
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olice cancel G8 protest march
Wednesday, July 6, 2005; Posted: 7:59 a.m. EDT (11:59 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/06/g8.main.ap/index.html
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- Police canceled a planned protest march
Wednesday outside the G8 summit after demonstrators smashed car windows,
threw rocks and attempted to blockade one of the main approach roads to
the exclusive Gleneagles resort hosting the summit.
Tayside Police said it called off the march in the village of
Auchterarder, expected to draw 5,000 or more people, on the grounds of public
safety after consulting with organizers.
But organizer G8 Alternatives accused the police of "disgraceful
behavior" in preventing thousands of people the right to stage a peaceful
protest.
"This is a serious indictment of British democracy," said spokeswoman
Gill Hubbard.
Police said they would turn back busloads of demonstrators who left
Edinburgh early in the morning for the march. Chief Superintendent Iain
MacLeod of Tayside Police said so far some 1,500 protesters had gathered
in Auchterarder. He said discussions continued with the march
organizers to see if some compromise could be reached.
Protesters already in Auchterarder were dismayed by the decision.
"How can they call this a democracy if they are not going to let us
take part in a peaceful protest?" said Marilyn Rooney, 54, from the
Scottish town of Alloa.
"There are no troublemakers here, there has been no trouble here and we
have been enjoying a good atmosphere," she said.
The protests had caused apprehension in Auchterarder, a village of
4,000 people 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) northeast of the Gleneagles summit
venue.
More than 100 activists, many clad in black and covering their faces
with bandanas and wearing hoods, streamed from a makeshift campsite in
Stirling in central Scotland, 22 kilometers (14 miles) southwest of
Gleneagles, where some 5,000 anarchists and anti-globalization protesters
are staying.
An Associated Press Television News cameraman said he saw a group of
about 100 smashing the windows of parked cars and throwing stones at
police. Police said a number of officers were injured, with eight receiving
hospital treatment. Tayside Police said 16 people had been arrested in
the Gleneagles area.
Police superintendent MacLeod said about 60 people had been arrested
following the violence in Stirling, and nine policemen had been
hospitalized. He gave no details of their injuries.
Traffic was snarled as police closed the M9 highway, the main approach
route to Gleneagles from the Scottish capital, Edinburgh.
Police in body armor, helmets and carrying shields formed a chain
across the M9 as dozens of protesters ran along the closed highway. Many ran
up an embankment and escaped across fields when they got to the police
line.
In nearby Bannockburn, protesters -- some wearing black crash helmets
and carrying iron bars -- smashed the windshields of parked cars and
threw rocks at police vans. A group linked their arms through inflated
tire inner tubes and charged a line of riot police blocking the road.
Several attacked a police van, hitting it with iron rods and kicking the
headlights as the vehicle reversed down a street.
Demonstrators pulled a protective iron grille from the windows of a
Burger King restaurant and smashed the glass. One slogan daubed on the
wall said: "10,000 Pharaohs, Six Billion Slaves."
Anti-globalization campaigners have vowed to disrupt the summit of the
leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations, who meet later
Wednesday at the tightly secured Gleneagles Hotel. British Prime Minister
Tony Blair, who this year chairs the G-8, arrived in a helicopter at
the hotel after flying back to Britain from Singapore, where he lobbied
for Britain's 2012 Olympic bid.
In Edinburgh, Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof greeted 12 double-decker
buses carrying some 1,000 anti-poverty demonstrators who responded to his
call to converge on the city for a march later in the day.
Geldof made a point of distinguishing between the Make Poverty History
supporters and the violent activists clashing with police.
"These are our people. You must not conflate the two. Some come in
peace and dignity and respect, some just come to make trouble. There is no
similarity between them," he said.
Geldof said he planned to travel to Gleneagles at some stage of the
three-day summit, hoping to address leaders. Asked what his message would
be he said: "Get five minutes' sleep, have a cup of coffee and get
Africa back on the road again."
About 50 "eco-warriors" used tree trunks and branches to block a bridge
in the town of Crieff, where some G8 delegates reportedly were staying.
One protester held up a sign: "G8 Democracy has to wait."
In Edinburgh, several small groups of demonstrators in black roamed
through the streets. Police formed a protective line around the Sheraton
Hotel.
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