Bin Laden Bashes U.S. on Climate Change

By: Sean Alfano
Topics: World Watch

(CBS/AP)

Osama bin Laden's latest reason to condemn the United States has to do with climate change.

The al Qaeda leader in a new audio message published by al Jazeera, bin Laden verbally attacks the U.S. and other industrialized nations for polluting the planet.

"This is a message to the whole world about those responsible for climate change and its repercussions — whether intentionally or unintentionally — and about the action we must take," bin Laden says on the tape, according to al Jazeera.

"Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury - the phenomenon is an actual fact," he says.

Bin Laden, who recently released an audio tape praising a Nigerian man's attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner, bashes the U.S. for not signing the Kyoto Protocol.

He also praises left-wing U.S. political commentator Noam Chomsky for comparing America with the mafia.

"They are the true terrorists and therefore we should refrain from dealing in the U.S. dollar and should try to get rid of this currency as early as possible," bin Laden says.

"I am certain that such actions will have grave repercussions and huge impact."

66 Comments Have Your Say
Email Story Send to a Friend
Share This Tell Your Friends
Tweet This Tweet This
More Share It

Add a Comment

See all 66 Comments


by repliq13 February 10, 2010 7:30 AM EST: Could someone please reveal to me the motive for this so called big lie. Do you think that the windmill industry paid Al Gore and everybody else? Paranoia in this scale is a serious symptom. Read an interesting article on the subject here: http://www.repliq.dk/index.php?c=1&i=1; Reply to this comment


by Zany420 February 1, 2010 8:46 AM EST: What tech does he have to even realize it's just Americans causing climate change. This guy is losing all hope and I think his time is almost over. To make an acusation like that is hilarious coming from someone who probably knows nothing on the subject. Why does he think it's all our fault? GET THIS GUY AND END THIS MESS!!; Reply to this comment


by thestarhawk February 1, 2010 6:03 AM EST: Osama bin Ladden you are hypocrite.

Explain to me Osama where your family retained its vast wealth?

Your family and you get your money from the OIL industry.

You are responsible...your family is responsible for pollution on a epic scale.

When you take oil from the ground and refine it and burn it in cars you all are part of the environmental problem.

Yet your true desire is control of all the oil.You may decieve many but not me.

You take this false stance on the side of the environment only to favor of the weak minded.

You are the great satan Osama bin Ladden and a liar.; Reply to this comment


by cowardlyimbecile January 30, 2010 11:46 PM EST: OBL has always been a shrewd politician. His stand on the environment was the reason he took so many votes out of Florida in 2000. Changed the election. Before that, when he was just about car safety, he was okay. Then he went nuts.; Reply to this comment


by armyoftwelve January 30, 2010 11:01 PM EST: Let's not forget all the oil saddam hussein flooded the Persian Gulf with during the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War....

George Perkins Marsh was a US Ambassdor to the Ottoman Empire--he was shocked by the environmental degradation he saw in the preeminent
muslim power of the time.

OBL needs to take his owm people to task, the West is already starting to reign in itself.; Reply to this comment


by billkol January 29, 2010 10:05 PM EST: Bill says, "Osama, you can say what you want about him, but he never, ever changes his hard core, deep down beliefs. He is not stupid, and he knows what he is doing. He has always known and realized that the only way to bring down the greatest and most powerful nation in the world is to bankrupt us. Defeat us by destroying our ability to succeed. Remember,on February 26, 1993 a car bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The purpose: To disrupt the financial center of the world. Did he give up? No, He succeeded in bringing down, not one, but both towers. Towers where the world's money was being negotiated. If he could only halt all this, he would prefail. Let's for a second, look into his mind. If he had the means, where would he strike next? I do not know. But someone out there does. If you were him, what would you do?; Reply to this comment


by Kufr_Akbar January 29, 2010 4:41 PM EST: This audio could be months old. Indeed it seems to have been recorded some time prior to the Climategate fiasco.

But seriously, Adam Gadahn is behind this lame propaganda effort.; Reply to this comment

by scottyusa January 29, 2010 4:32 PM EST

Too funny. Bin Laden actually believing in climate change. If it existed then to him, of course it is our fault. All his and his follower's problems are all our fault. This guy should have his own comedy show. All his pearls of wisdom consist of is america is bad so go get them while he sits comfortably in his rat hole.

Reply to this comment


by erasmus111 January 29, 2010 7:11 PM EST: by scottyusa January 29, 2010 4:32 PM EST
Too funny. Bin Laden actually believing in climate change. If it existed then to him, of course it is our fault. All his and his follower's problems are all our fault.

No, not all. But he is right about it being all the industrialized nations that are polluting the planet.


by Freedomforever88 January 29, 2010 4:26 PM EST: Since Obama is so green now, I wonder if he will use a Hybrid for next car bomb?; Reply to this comment


by Freedomforever88 January 29, 2010 4:21 PM EST: I wonder how green it was when all that jet fuel ignited the towers in NY. I am sure that left a bad carbon foot print. It's amazing how close the ideology of Bin Laden is to Obama and Gore.; Reply to this comment