Posted on 01/29/2010 2:05:32 AM PST by free1977free
Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, has condemned the US and other industrial economies, holding them responsible for the phenomenon of climate change.
In an audio tape obtained by Al Jazeera, bin Laden criticised George Bush, the former US president, for rejecting the Kyoto pact and condemned global corporations.
"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 said.
"Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury - the phenomenon is an actual fact."
The tape follows one released earlier this week in which the al-Qaeda leader praised a Nigerian man accused of a failed attempt to blow up an airliner heading for Detroit on Christmas Day.
'Grave repercussions'
In the new recording, bin Laden says "all the industrial states" are to blame for climate change, "yet the majority of those states have signed the Kyoto Protocol and agreed to curb the emission of harmful gases".
He continued: "However, George Bush junior, preceded by [the US] congress, dismissed the agreement to placate giant corporations. And they are themselves standing behind speculation, monopoly and soaring living costs.
"They are also behind 'globalisation and its tragic implications'. And whenever the perpetrators are found guilty, the heads of state rush to rescue them using public money."
The Kyoto Protocol, a UN treaty aimed at combating global warming, was adopted in December 1997 and has since been ratified by 187 states, but not by the US congress.
Although a signatory to the agreement, the US under Bush refused to ratify the treaty, saying that it should contain binding goals for developing countries to reduce emissions as well as those for industrialised nations.
Targeting US dollar
In the new recording, bin Laden said: "Noam Chomsky [the US academic and political commentator] was correct when he compared the US policies to those of the Mafia. They are the true terrorists and therefore we should refrain from dealing in the US dollar and should try to get rid of this currency as early as possible.
"I am certain that such actions will have grave repercussions and huge impact."
While continuing to attack America, bin Laden's comments mark a shift from his earlier, more regionally focused commentary.
In his previous tape, bin Laden warned that there would be further attacks on the US unless Barack Obama, the current US president, took steps to resolve the Palestinian conflict.
The Obama administration dismissed bin Laden's comments on the earlier tape and said intelligence analysts had not confirmed that the voice was that of bin Laden.
THANK you Mr. Bin Ladden - FOR CONNECTING THE DOTS for stupid Americans!!!!!
Scumbags like you are in cahoots with Algore and the global warming nuts, who probably admire your lifestyle in a cave!!
Yes. He died from a severe case of localized global warming, courtesy of the drone brigade.
Must be getting really cold in his Af/Pak cave...
Final nail in the global warming hoax. Who wants to be on the same side as Osama?
Sounds like Obama’s SOTU speech.
All righty then.
Bin Laden said his goal was to bankrupt the USA.
He’s getting close to victory...
Well, we know he watches CNN.
Doesn't it just figure that OBL would be a student of Chomsky?
And come to think of it, it's probably something he and our president have in common.
Well, isn’t that special.
Osama bin Laden, John ‘I started a joke’ Kerry, and Lindsey Graham are all on the same page.
Maybe Kerry and Graham will invite Osama to speak on behalf of their globull warming legislation.
Obama does need a new Green Czar....
We already KNEW that the lunatic fringe agreed with Osama...
The sandals. The flowing robes. The funky facial hair and low impact cave dwelling lifestyle. OBL is so Granola any Berkely hippy would be impressed.
In other news, OBL will be jumping over a shark while on water skis later this afternoon...while wearing a leather jacket...
But WHERE IS “Bin Laden” 0 still has not found him either! their only accomplishment was porkulus for blue districts.
“Noam Chomsky was correct when he compared the US policies to those of the Mafia. They are the true terrorists...”
Noam Chomsky can write what he writes and live to collect the royalties because he is an American. He was born in a city that was one of the birthplaces of liberty, Philadelphia, yet he uses his liberty to trash the nation that has given that liberty to more people than any other in history. He is, in short, a twit.
"Pass cap and trade,pass cap and trade,pass cap and trade"
A rag head that has been dead for the better part of a decade is now concerned about global warming....Huh
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