[Stardust]

http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/...4295.story

Osama bin Laden sought to draw a wider public into his fight against the United States in a new message Friday, dropping his usual talk of religion and holy war and focusing instead on an unexpected topic: global warming.
The al-Qaida leader blamed the United States and other industrialized nations for climate change and said the only way to prevent disaster was to break the American economy, calling on the world to boycott U.S. goods and stop using the dollar.

"The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous decades have now become frequent," bin Laden said in the audiotape, aired on the Arab TV network Al-Jazeera.

The terror leader noted Washington's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and painted the United States as in the thrall of major corporations that he said "are the true criminals against the global climate" and are to blame for the global economic crisis, driving "tens of millions into poverty and unemployment."

Bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders have mentioned global warming and struck an anti-globalization tone in previous tapes and videos. But the latest was the first message by bin Laden solely dedicated to the topic. It was also nearly entirely empty of the Islamic militant rhetoric that usually fills his declarations.

The change in rhetoric aims to give al-Qaida's message an appeal beyond hardcore Islamic militants, said Evan Kohlmann, of globalterroralert.com, a private, U.S.-based terrorism analysis group.

"It's a bridge issue," Kohlmann said. "They are looking to appeal to people who don't necessarily love al-Qaida but who are angry at the U.S. and the West, to galvanize them against the West" and make them more receptive to "alternative solutions like adopting violence for the cause."

[Deathstar 80]

This shocks me. I thought Osama Bin Laden had passed away years ago. There were rumors at one time that he had a pretty bad illness.

About his message, I imagine it won't be very effective. To my understanding, other countries such as China would cause global warming more than the United States.

[Joe Friday]

:omg:

I won't be able to sleep at night knowing that Bin Laden blames the US as the primary cause of global warming. NOT!

Here's my response to his opinion - :moon:

[Stardust]

:omg:

I won't be able to sleep at night knowing that Bin Laden blames the US as the primary cause of global warming. NOT!

Here's my response to his opinion - :moon:

Do you think Bin Laden has investments in Gore's Carbon Credit's venture.......:yikes:

[Hoot Gibson]

Do you think Bin Laden has investments in Gore's Carbon Credit's venture.......:yikes:

I see him as a Gore competitor. How big of a carbon footprint can Bin Laden and his crew have living in Afghanistan or Pakistan? BL could make the pitch that he is waling the walk while Al Gore is hypocritically flying his private jet around the world from one gig to another.

Who knows, that panel of nut cases in Stockholm may decide to give Bin Laden an undeserved Nobel Peace Prize based on his potential as an environmental wacko.

[Stardust]

I see him as a Gore competitor. How big of a carbon footprint can Bin Laden and his crew have living in Afghanistan or Pakistan? BL could make the pitch that he is waling the walk while Al Gore is hypocritically flying his private jet around the world from one gig to another.

Who knows, that panel of nut cases in Stockholm may decide to give Bin Laden an undeserved Nobel Peace Prize based on his potential as an environmental wacko.

They have been known to do that recently......

[Hoot Gibson]

They have been known to do that recently......

...and Yassir Arafat was a murderous thug and the Nobel committee didn't hold it against him.