Posted on 03/01/2016 12:54:21 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Bin Laden called for Americans to rise up over climate change
WASHINGTON | By Jonathan Landay
WASHINGTON Osama bin Laden wrote a letter calling on the American people to help President Barack Obama fight "catastrophic" climate change and "save humanity", in the latest evidence of his worries about environmental issues, newly released documents show
The letter was among materials that were seized in the May 2, 2011, U.S. raid on bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan that killed the al Qaeda chief and which were released on Tuesday by the Obama administration.
The undated, unsigned letter "to the American people," which U.S. intelligence officials attributed to bin Laden, appeared to have been written shortly after Obama began his first term in 2009, based on the letter's references to events.
Bin Laden's preoccupation with climate change also emerged as a theme in the first tranche of documents from the raid that was declassified in May 2015, as well as in an audio recording released via the al Jazeera network in January 2010.
In the rambling letter made public Tuesday, bin Laden blamed the 2007-8 U.S. financial crisis on corporate control of capital and corporate lobbyists, and the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He called on Americans to launch "a great revolution for freedom" to liberate the U.S. president from those influences.
That would enable Obama to make "a rational decision to save humanity from the harmful gases that threaten its destiny," bin Laden continued.
In a separate letter, bin Laden urged a close aide to launch a media campaign for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that included a call for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Bin Laden contended that the world would be better off fighting climate change than waging what he claimed was a war against Islam.
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Knocking him off cut some.
That sounds like something from The Onion...
Thank God he's dead.
Also, I wonder why he never thought about getting a job with one of the US news networks, or possibly running for office as a Democrat from Chicago or NY City?
Who cares?
you can’t make this stuff up
or is it
you can make this stuff up
Bin Laden and Michael Moore and the Pope, all in agreement here.
One of his last transmissions concerned the climate. Rivht after that was when some nut shot up Discovery Channel headquarters.
Sounded a lot like Leo DiCaprio’s Oscar Acceptance speech.
Too bad he didn’t get to see his bud DiCaprio being mauled by a bear.
Unbelievable. To think that Bin Laden was concerned about global warming??? Who knew?????
Baloney
Yeh right...
If he had played his cards better, he could have used the same schtick to trade in his cave for a mansion in Tennessee.
He was evil, not stupid.
He obviously sensed a scam he could use against gullible Americans.
The moral of this story is; the best way to deal with Warmists is to use SEAL Team Six!
Not gonna happen...
Oh brother...
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