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An unexpected endorsement from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has resulted in a huge jump in sales for a book by a critic of U.S. foreign policy. 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...

— By Alistair Lyon, Middle East Diplomatic Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - A leading Saudi dissident said Thursday that Osama bin Laden had gained broad support in his native Saudi Arabia, where his followers are chief suspects in this week's suicide bombings that killed 34 people. "They can survive any crackdown," Saad al-Fagih, head of the London-based Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia, told Reuters in an interview at his modest family home in north London. Fagih, whose group launched a satellite television channel aimed at Saudi viewers this week, dismissed as naive the idea that the Saudi royal family was...

A Saudi opposition group has launched a satellite television channel which its leader said on Thursday could prove a greater threat to Saudi rulers than violence inspired by Osama bin Laden. Saad al-Fagih, head of the London-based Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia, told Reuters the Islah channel was part of efforts to "penetrate the wall of deception" in the kingdom and allow Saudis to express their own opinions freely. "This will be more dangerous to the Saudi royal family than all the bombs of bin Laden," Fagih said. He said the channel, now showing only an introductory message, would...