Osama bin Laden wrote a letter
calling on the American people to help President Barack Obama fight
"catastrophic" climate change and "save humanity", in the latest
evidence of his worries about environmental issues, newly released
documents show
The letter was among materials that were seized in
the May 2, 2011, U.S. raid on bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan that
killed the al Qaeda chief and which were released on Tuesday by the
Obama administration.
The undated, unsigned letter "to the American
people," which U.S. 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 U.S. financial crisis on corporate control of
capital and corporate lobbyists, and the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
He called on Americans to launch "a great revolution for freedom" to liberate the U.S. president from those influences.
That would enable Obama to make "a rational
decision to save humanity from the harmful gases that threaten its
destiny," bin Laden continued.
In a separate letter, bin Laden urged a close aide
to launch a media campaign for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11,
2001, attacks that included a call for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Bin Laden contended that the world would be better
off fighting climate change than waging what he claimed was a war
against Islam.
"...the world should put its efforts into
attempting to reduce the release of gases," said the undated, unsigned
letter to someone identified as Shaykh Mahmud that U.S. intelligence
officials said they believed was written by bin Laden.
"This is a struggle between two of the largest cultures on Earth, and it is in the shadow of catastrophic climate conditions."
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