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On Friday we asked who benefited from — and most likely was behind — the UBL truce tape. Today we have an answer:

A Brooklyn-born writer said yesterday he had “no problem” being quoted by Osama bin Laden in his latest diatribe and added he shares the arch-terrorist’s opposition to American foreign policy.

“I wasn’t upset at all,” activist-writer William Blum told The Post when he heard bin Laden quoted him in his recent audio-taped message.

“I was surprised and kind of amused. It’s good publicity for my book.”

Sounds suspicious, eh? It gets worse:

Bin Laden mentioned Blum’s book called “Rogue State” and then quoted a passage from a separate 2002 essay by Blum, “Why Terrorists Hate America.”

Blum’s book jumped to No 30 on Amazon.com’s best-seller list yesterday after getting the plug from bin Laden.

The passage that bin Laden quoted from said that if he were president, he would end American “interference” around the globe and issue apologies.

“If he and I share an intense dislike of certain aspects of American foreign policy, that doesn’t bother me at all,” Blum said.

(Is this any more ridiculous than the idea that the Bush Administration orchestrates Al Qaeda missives?)