Heh, 'ya got me again on that ;-)
Having read more than a bit on Osama and al-Q (this new one looks great, http://www.liberaloasis.com/burke.htm ), and I haven't bought her book yet, just skimming at the bookstore, but, if I recall, one or more footnotes cited as sole source on Osama and al-Q the Bodansky book. When someone like him (see esp. his newer book on Clinton and Palestine/Israel) with such an obvious rightist bias, is cited, well yes, if it sounds credible, go w/ it, (not as if I haven't cited TNR or Commentary or sources further right here!) but, hopefully, she or whoever could/can find left or centrist sources to back up the dodgier allegations. Not that I think she isn't a fine journalist, I'd like to read her interviews w/ the former Red Brigader's, but, when a book is blurbed by and assisted in the research bu a Noam Chomsky, I did not expect to see the Bodansky cites.
On BH Levy, ask him about French maoist and PCF intellectuals. (The Tony Judt book on the French left intelligentsia, btw, is a great read.) If he knows Roger Garaudy, former PCF intellectual, now Holocaust Denier. What he thinks of the D. Lecourt http://www.versobooks.com/books/klm/l- titles/lecourt_mediocracy.shtml and http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14783.ctl Kristin Ross book on May '68 and it's aftermath. What is Regis Debray up to?
-- Michael Pugliese