Bin Laden called for Americans to rise up over climate change
Source: Reuters
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.
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villager
(26,001 posts)I sense a bit of a disconnect there...
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)That's what our drones are for.
villager
(26,001 posts)(And the banks, and the rest of the MIC).
As ever, Bin Laden was scarcely the "revolutionary," and "more of the same..."
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)Since the beginning of the Saudi kingdom, the deal has been that the Wahabbists could carry out their agenda of terror and murder -- but only outside the kingdom. The Saud family, who needs the Wahabbists support, not only turns a blind eye to the killing, but in many cases, encourages and supports it financially.
And we're still friends with them.
villager
(26,001 posts)anyone in bed with the Bushes is no friend of tackling, or dealing with, climate change...
Raster
(20,998 posts)...but oh-so-true. Sadly, oh-so-true.
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)Blanks
(4,835 posts)WDIM
(1,662 posts)Anyone living in the ME does.
They get to see the bombs they don't show here on the TeeVee.
sakabatou
(42,202 posts)into terrorist sympathizers?
progree
(10,938 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 1, 2016, 08:40 PM - Edit history (1)
xocet
(3,874 posts)Eugene
(61,974 posts)The Kenyan Muslim in the White House was in league with bin Laden.
Or, climate change is a hoax perpetrated by Radical Islam.
...or something like that.
Damn!