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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Has Osama bin Laden gone green? Probably not, but the al-Qaeda leader has called on the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other developed countries for global warming, the Associated Press reports. Bin Laden said drastic measures are needed to halt environmental catastrophe, and proposed "bringing the wheels of the American economy to a halt." "We should stop dealings with the dollar and get rid of it as soon as possible," he said in a tape broadcast on Al-Jazeera. "I know that this has great consequences and grave ramifications, but it is ...
The Washington Post has the details surrounding the release of a videotaped message from Osama bin Laden last month. The tape, first aired on September 7th, was known to the government in advance, thanks to the work of a private intelligence gathering company known as SITE. SITE, which stands for Search for International Terrorist Entities, intercepted the tape days before its scheduled release. The company's director decided to offer a free copy to the White House and US intelligence agencies, so that those agencies could prepare for the tape's release. That is where the story goes bad. ...
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