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Bin Laden Letter Shows al-Qaeda Leader Worried About Climate Change

Newly released Osama bin Laden letters reveal that the former al-Qaeda leader was worried about the environment, and had written a letter urging the American people to help President Obama prevent a global disaster and save humanity from the dangers of climate change.  The letter is one of hundreds seized in the May 2, 2011 raid on bin Laden’s home in Pakistan and was made public by the Obama administration on Tuesday this week. Nypost.com reports: The undated, unsigned letter “to the American people,” which US 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. In the rambling letter made public Tuesday, bin Laden blamed the 2007-8 US financial crisis on corporate control of capital and corporate lobbyists, and the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He called on Americans to launch “a great revolution for freedom” to liberate the US president [...]