Bin Laden Bashes U.S. on Climate Change

(CBS/AP)
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."
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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.
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.
But seriously, Adam Gadahn is behind this lame propaganda effort.
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.