Osama Bin Laden weighs in on climate change, is disappointed about Kyoto Protocol

[yllus]

I wonder if we can get Al Jazeera to ask him who he thinks will go all the way on this year's American Idol. Or maybe a Superbowl pick.

Bin Laden's latest beef: U.S. carbon emissions

Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has surprisingly entered the debate on climate change.

In a new verbal assault broadcast yesterday, he lectured the United States and other industrial nations on the subject and also urged a dollar boycott over U.S. "slavery."

Bin Laden criticized George W. Bush, the former U.S. president, for not signing the Kyoto Protocol on regulating carbon emissions, spoke out against excessive corporate influence in the U.S. and presented himself as an opponent of government bail-outs to banks.

In one of the al-Qaeda chief's more unusual messages -- doubly so as he largely eschewed references to religion and violence -- he also appeared to reveal himself to be a reader of Britain's Guardian newspaper when he quoted from its recent interview with Noam Chomsky.

"So we've gone from being the 'Great Satan' to the 'Great Emitter,' " said State Department spokesman Philip Crowley. "He's working hard to stay relevant -- that's all I can say."

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His latest message sparked a guessing game on Twitter as to what he will address on his next tape, with one user predicting he will tell the world "he can't wait to get his hands on an iPad," Apple's latest creation.

 

[Wheezer]

Wow....I guess everyone needs a band wagon to jump on.....I wonder what the carbon emissions are from a suicide bomber?

 

[Throckmorton]

He just wants to sell the carbon credits he gets for living in a cave.

Seriously though, he's just trying to broaden his base from the most right-wing portion of the world's Muslim population.

 

[Jiggz]

News Flash!!! Osama Bin Laden weighing in the effects of "salt" to the human body, specifically with the salty potato chips made from the USA. OBL asking for boycott of USA potato chips!

 

[StageLeft]

Are we sure it's him; is he certainly still alive?

 

[Craig234]

Wow, 4 replies and not one of our righties has yet said this proves people who are for action against climate change are terrorists allied with OBL. Next thing you know, they'll stop saying they hate us for freedom.

Nevermind, they'll keep saying that.

 

[PokerGuy]

Today's episode of "you make the call!".

- Too much corporate influence in the US, evil right wing corporate influence.
- Disappointment in the fact that the US didn't sign on to Kyoto.
- Blames Bush for everything

Which nutcase are we talking about, Craig or OBL? You make the call!

 

[DukeN]

He must have forgotten his medication. Or the dudes that do the voice overs for the CGI videos of him (they have to come from somewhere) watched a little too much family guy.

 

[Moonbeam]

I know he's pleased those drones get a lot better mileage than regular jets.

 

[werepossum]

I know he's pleased those drones get a lot better mileage than regular jets.

LOL!

When I saw the thread title I read "Osama" as "Obama" so the excerpt made no sense at all to me. Oddly enough the two apparently have the same position on Kyoto and climate change. Who'd a thunk it? I have to suspect a farce here though. I mean, c'mon, bank bailouts? Does he get CNN in that cave?

 

[ElFenix]

LOL!

When I saw the thread title I read "Osama" as "Obama" so the excerpt made no sense at all to me. Oddly enough the two apparently have the same position on Kyoto and climate change. Who'd a thunk it? I have to suspect a farce here though. I mean, c'mon, bank bailouts? Does he get CNN in that cave?

after 10 years of being stuck in it he's probably got a plasma and a feather bed.

wonder if he likes the saints plus the points

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

The real question is, why does anyone care what this guy thinks?

 

[Ozoned]

The real question is, why does anyone care what this guy thinks?

Well, if it really is him, I find it interesting where he lines up on our political sliding scale.

 

[Xonoahbin]

People completely demonize bin Laden, but they forget that his sole goal is not to kill off America. Bin Laden sees us as the enemy that oppresses his people, much like many leaders around the world have done for the span of history. I'm not in any way condoning his actions, but instead trying to remind people that it's his perspective that drives his actions--not some deep seated force that simply wants to kill people. He wants to liberate his people for a Muslim world, and I'm sure he'd like a clean Muslim world.

As to Garfield's question, a lot of Muslims care about what he thinks because they see him as the leader of the fight against Western oppression, and believe me that is a real perspective. Just like the colonists saw the British as savages, someone is always going to be demonized. The people on the other end are not evil simply because they demonize us, but just have a different perspective. If we demonize them right back, we show that we are really no different overall.

 

[Theb]

I like that he opposes slavery in the US, but he's almost 150 years too late to jump on the abolition bandwagon.

 

[Throckmorton]

Well, if it really is him, I find it interesting where he lines up on our political sliding scale.

The far right.

 

[ultimatebob]

The real question is, why does anyone care what this guy thinks?

And more importantly, how in the hell is he still alive to say ANYTHING almost ten years after the 9-11 terrorist attacks? Are our intelligence agencies really that inept, or have we just given up trying to catch this guy?

 

[halik]

People completely demonize bin Laden, but they forget that his sole goal is not to kill off America. Bin Laden sees us as the enemy that oppresses his people, much like many leaders around the world have done for the span of history. I'm not in any way condoning his actions, but instead trying to remind people that it's his perspective that drives his actions--not some deep seated force that simply wants to kill people. He wants to liberate his people for a Muslim world, and I'm sure he'd like a clean Muslim world.

As to Garfield's question, a lot of Muslims care about what he thinks because they see him as the leader of the fight against Western oppression, and believe me that is a real perspective. Just like the colonists saw the British as savages, someone is always going to be demonized. The people on the other end are not evil simply because they demonize us, but just have a different perspective. If we demonize them right back, we show that we are really no different overall.

Too complicated. People want to hear that he hates freedom and is part of axis of evil.

 

[Vic]

Well, if it really is him, I find it interesting where he lines up on our political sliding scale.

Uh... he's a fundamentalist religious extremist... what do you think?

Anyway, I thought he was supposed to be dead. Wasn't that the Bush admin's excuse for why they never caught him? Despite spending trillions supposedly trying...

 

[Colt45]

Well, if it really is him, I find it interesting where he lines up on our political sliding scale.

 

[rudder]

So... we found Al Gore. He is camping out with Osama apparently.

Al Qaeda, Al Jazeera, Al Gore.

 

[Genx87]

Today's episode of "you make the call!".

- Too much corporate influence in the US, evil right wing corporate influence.
- Disappointment in the fact that the US didn't sign on to Kyoto.
- Blames Bush for everything

Which nutcase are we talking about, Craig or OBL? You make the call!

lol

 

[ElFenix]

fareed zakaria, on OBL's new ineffectiveness in the arab world:

But the nature of the enemy is now quite different. It is not a movement capable of winning over the Arab street. Its political appeal does not make rulers tremble. The video messages of bin Laden and Zawahiri once unsettled moderate regimes. Now they are mostly dismissed as almost comical attempts to find popular causes to latch onto. (After the financial crash, bin Laden tried his hand at bashing greedy bankers.)

 

[blackangst1]

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Bin Laden's latest beef: U.S. carbon emissions

His family sure doesn't have any beef with making billions off selling that oil to us to create those emissions....