Osama Goes Green? A Surprising Pop Quiz…
EmailABC's Bradley Blackburn blogs from New York: POP QUIZ: Match the following quotes with one of these authors – Vice President Al Gore, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, or Osama Bin Laden: 1. "To those who are still tempted to dismiss the increasingly urgent alarms from scientists around the world, ignore the melting of the polar ice cap and all the other apocalyptic warnings from the planet itself, [...] please wake up." 2. "The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous decades have now become frequent." 3. "It is necessary for us to avoid doing business in the dollar, and to finish with it in the fastest possible time." 4. "We cannot have, on the one hand, a multipolar world and, on the other, a single benchmark currency across the globe."
Answers: 1. Al Gore
2. Osama bin Laden
3. Osama bin Laden
4. Nicolas Sarkozy If you got all four, then congratulations. We're pointing out, of course, some surprising new statements from Osama bin Laden. In a taped message that aired on Al Jazeera recently, the terrorist leader sounded more like an environmental activist or left-wing economist, making points that aren't as outragous as you might expect. Bin Laden is apparently trying to expand his Al Qaeda message to a new audience. Terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann told the AP that Bin Laden is "looking to appeal to people who don't necessarily love Al Qaeda but who are angry at the U.S. and the West, to galvanize them against the West." Plenty of people are having some fun with this — Gawker suggested that the U.S. government should start looking for Bin Laden at Whole Foods. But Bin Laden's change in rhetorical tactic could be significant if it finds receptive ears. Are you surprised by Bin Laden's words?
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It’s either Bin Laden’s words or somebody posing as Bin Laden.
Explosions only add to polution.
So live by your own conviction – stop bombing people.
If you can’t do it in the name of love, then do it for the weather.
Posted by: Bin Laden - what a mensch! | January 29, 2010, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm
I agree with Bin Laden’s dollar quote to some degree. However, his take on global warming may be false since I have been freezing all winter long, not to mention the earth is actually in a cool period of its ever-changing history. Come on Bin Laden. I expect more from the warrior that has stood against our arrogant, belligerent foreign policy. Get the global warming nonsense straight.
Posted by: Huh | January 29, 2010, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm
Bin Laden – what a mensch!-Actually our pentagon I believe uses as much oil every year as Sweden. We use this oil to bomb folks like Bin Laden. I bet our band of thugs produces much more CO2 than his band of thugs.
Posted by: Huh | January 29, 2010, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm
One thing both Osama Bin Laden and Osama Obama have in common is their hatred of the USA and efforts to destroy it.
Posted by: Honest John | January 29, 2010, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm
It must be gratifying to Islamists that both the Obamanista’s and Bin Ladinista’s to find that they are on the same page.
Posted by: Honest John | January 29, 2010, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm
Enviromentalists? Geeze, I think Osama’s pitching this to the wrong crowd.
Try PETA.
Posted by: Hosfac | January 29, 2010, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm
See deniers, even bin laden gets global warming.
Posted by: Dennis | January 29, 2010, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm
Yes this is a joke. The media is being duped by someone pulling a prank.
Posted by: keredte | January 29, 2010, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm
Osama Bin Laden has gone ‘green’ because Osama Bin DEAD a long time folks! The powers that be just pull him out on marionette strings every time they want you to be scared and most likely around some false flag event!
Posted by: W. Wallace | January 29, 2010, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm
wonder how algore feels having obl on his climate change team??lol…
Posted by: realman63 | January 29, 2010, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm
Crawling out from under the stone your chances of survival are better if the air and water is cleaner. There is a new awakening for the underground movement after they find technology (Drone attacks) is defeating them.
Posted by: gjkotw01 | January 29, 2010, 9:20 pm 9:20 pm
Bill Kolek says, “Osama, you can say what you want about him, but he never, ever changes his hard core, deep down beliefs. He is not stupid, and he knows what he is doing. He has always known and realized that the only way to bring down the greatest and most powerful nation in the world is to bankrupt us. Defeat us by destroying our ability to succeed. Remember,on February 26, 1993 a car bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The purpose: To disrupt the financial center of the world. Did he give up? No, He succeeded in bringing down, not one, but both towers. Towers where the world’s money was being negotiated. If he could only halt all this, he would prefail. Let’s for a second, look into his mind. If he had the means, where would he strike next? I do not know. But someone out there does. If you were him, what would you do?
Posted by: Bill Kolek | January 29, 2010, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm
The Arabs have been contemplating moving to the Euro for several years, while the Russians are moving to the Rubble and the Chinese are also considering alternatives because of the weak US dollar and extreme debt so unfortunately what Binney Boy says is taking shape.
Bin Laden could send world financial markets into a panic by just saying BOO to an oil tanker or whatever and especially the US who always reacts by throwing Billions of (Chinas) dollars at a problem which in the end never gets resolved and so the whole dumb show continues and the US never learns or gets it in the end.
Posted by: CC | January 29, 2010, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
Bill Kolek says, “Maybe their platform should contain these prophetic covert, hints?, you can say what you want about Osama bin Laden, but he never, ever changes his hard core, deep down beliefs. He is not stupid, and he knows what he is doing. He has always known and realized that the only way to bring down the greatest and most powerful nation in the world is to bankrupt us. Defeat us by destroying our ability to succeed. Remember,on February 26, 1993 a car bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The purpose: To disrupt the financial center of the world. Did he give up? No, He succeeded in bringing down, not one, but both towers. Towers where the world’s money was being negotiated. If he could only halt all this, he would prefail. Let’s for a second, look into his mind. If he had the means, where would he strike next? I do not know. But someone out there does. If you were him, what would you do?
Posted by: Bill Kolek | January 30, 2010, 12:15 am 12:15 am
I believe Bin Laden is a rotting corpse who is being dragged around by his followers (it doesn’t matter if he’s alive or dead, he’s still a corpse – an empty shell).
He came from a wealthy family; he had a voice that people listened to. He could have done so much for his own people. Instead, he drove them further down into a deep abyss. Bin Laden did not give a thought to his people. It was all about his wants and desires. Do you believe Bin Laden and/or his followers are truly concerned about the weather?
One thing about the west, we can say anything we like. We can vote in or out our politicians. We have no problem calling out people if we think they are wrong, and we won’t get our heads cut off either. Can’t say the same for other parts of the world.
Posted by: ddg | January 30, 2010, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm
Perhaps Osama might take a lesson from science, rather than politics.
Over population of the planet, by humans, is what has accelerated the destruction of the environment.
Yet, in ALL Islamic countries, the population is expected to rise by 50%, between now and 2050.
Therein lies the cause for destruction of the planet, and Islam is doing nothing about that, whatsoever, any more than any other country in the world, is doing anything about it.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | January 31, 2010, 10:25 am 10:25 am
WHAT???!!! Who actually got this story?
and WHY?? Are you certain it was properly interpreted? OBL going GREEN?
C’MON…ok, well, and maybe he is trying to join forces and switch tactics.You know, to form an Alliance with us in the Global effort…anything for a story..at least I know you have a sense of humor.
Posted by: Share ideas | February 1, 2010, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
Honest John, keep telling us what Republicans are thinking. The country needs to know the truth about you guys!
Posted by: Tom K | February 1, 2010, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm
Maybe Ben Laden realized that god may flood many of his own. In the end we may have one common foe. God is against all of us and wants to kill everyone. We gave Ben some stingers to use against Russia. So now it is going to sting us all in the ####. Watch Saudi lands return to the sea as it sinks in the shifting sands. Ask the king if he can swim this too shall happen. It is already happening to Long Beach California, sinking 3 inches per year. So Ben your beloved Saudi lands to shall perish from the face of the earth.
Posted by: Joemamabush | February 1, 2010, 7:55 pm 7:55 pm
Predictably, bin Laden’s environmental stand is right in line with our community organizer-in-chief, and the rest of the socialist/marxist/progressive Dems.
Posted by: RM Edaps | February 1, 2010, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm
well i think he is doing the rigt thing because in a world of crime and violence the has become poluted by the same persons who are doing the crime,so their will have to be some one who will help and if someone could see that person and give an helping hand,our world would be a better place today
Posted by: Marshalee Williams | February 18, 2010, 11:57 am 11:57 am