LONDON, December 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Benrik, the authors of the anarchic book "This Diary Will Change Your Life", today released a videotape they have sent to Osama Bin Laden for Christmas via Al-Jazeera.

The video contains a Christmas message to Mr Bin Laden urging him to change his life with the help of the book. Authors Benrik speak to camera in the Osama-style video, with the following message (subtitled in Arabic):

"Peace be with you. Osama, there is too much blood in the world, your ways need to change. This is why we enclose "This Diary Will Change Your Life", of which we, Benrik, are the authors. We are pleased to present you with a copy for Christmas. Follow it day by day in the year 2005 and your life will change. Good luck."

Benrik have sent the video to news channel Al-Jazeera in Qatar, with instructions to pass it on, along with the Diary, as an early Christmas present to Mr Bin Laden. Al-Jazeera is usually the recipient of Bin Laden's videos. Al-Jazeera news editor Ayman Kabbala said: "No one has ever asked us this before, it is a strange request".

Said authors Benrik: "Why should Osama Bin Laden be able to send the West videotapes but not the other way round? We hope that this message of peace reaches him and that our life-changing diary helps him mend his ways in 2005."

The video is posted on http://www.benrik.co.uk/content/osama.asp

Notes to editor: anarchic authors Benrik interfere in world politics on a regular basis. They were behind the www.globalvote2004.org website which received over 1,000,000 visitors in November of this year, and caused a storm of protest in the US by allowing non-Americans a virtual vote in the presidential election. "This Diary Will Change Your Life" is a diary that gives you life-changing tasks every day of the year (publisher Hodder & Stoughton). Benrik are Ben Carey and Henrik Delehag.

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