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• Salon profiles political writer William Blum, who’s currently enjoying his 15 minutes thanks to Osama bin Laden.

Our favorite turbaned nutjob dropped Blum’s name in a recent communiqué, mentioning his book Rogue State and quoting from another, Freeing the World to Death. Since then the book has shot up the bestseller lists and Amazon’s page for Rogue State has filled up with five-star reviews from bandwagon-hoppers. Somehow this is bigger news than bin Laden’s offer of a truce.