Bin Laden Blasts US for Causing Climate Change

Osama bin Laden's having a busy week: Just days after applauding the would-be Christmas bomber, he's issued a broadside against the US for its role in creating global warming. In a new audiotape, aired in part on Al-Jazeera television today, he urges the world to boycott American goods and the US dollar. The al-Qaeda chief says the way to combat climate change is to bring "the wheels of the American economy" to a halt.

Bin Laden calls global warming a grave threat— "Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury; the phenomenon is an actual fact" —and says he singled out the US from other industrialized nations because of George W. Bush's failure to sign the Kyoto pact.
(More Osama bin Laden stories.)