BULLETIN – AT 9:11 A.M. ET:  Osama bin Laden has joined the global warming movement.  is this a bid for respectability?  From the AP:

CAIRO (AP) - Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called in a new audiotape for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming.

In the tape, aired in part on Al-Jazeera television Friday, bin Laden warns of the dangers of climate change and says that the way to stop it is to bring "the wheels of the American economy" to a halt.

He says the world should "stop consuming American products" and "refrain from using the dollar," according to a transcript on Al-Jazeera's Web site.

The new message, whose authenticity could not immediately be confirmed, comes after a bin Laden tape released last week in which he endorsed a failed attempt to blow up an American airliner on Christmas Day.

COMMENT:  We should always be mindful of the fact that bin Laden and his associates are not stupid.  They are tuned in to the world.  They are up on things. 

Before 9-11, bin Laden rarely mentioned the Arab-Israel conflict.  His attention was elsewhere.  But after 9-11, apparently realizing he could reap propaganda benefits among Western leftists, he started championing the Palestinians, leading to the absurd notion, spread in the West, that ending terrorism depends on solving the Israel-Palestine issue.

You may be sure that bin Laden's newest message will find a sympathetic ear among Western leftists and their trendy friends.  "Well, the man does bad things, but if only we stopped polluting..."  You can finish the sentence.  It won't be long before ending terrorism will depend, in weak minds, on cap and trade.

Hey, maybe bin Laden will win the next Nobel Peace Prize.  What a multicultural coup!

January 29, 2010