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DUBAI—Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden blamed industrial nations for global warming and urged a boycott of the U.S. dollar to end “slavery” in an audio tape aired by Al-Jazeera television on Friday.<\/p>\n
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“All industrial nations, mainly the big ones, are responsible for the crisis of global warming,” bin Laden said in the message attributed to him by the pan-Arab news channel based in Doha.<\/p>\n
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In an unusual message possibly timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, he warned of the impact of global warming by saying that “discussing climate change is not an intellectual luxury, but a reality.”<\/p>\n
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“This is a message to the whole world about those who are causing climate change, whether deliberately or not, and what we should do about that,” he said.<\/p>\n
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The Al-Qaeda leader then slammed the U.S. administration under former President George W. Bush for not signing the Kyoto protocol on combating climate change. “Bush the son, and the Congress before him, rejected this agreement, only to satisfy the big companies,” he said.<\/p>\n
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Bin Laden then went on to urge a boycott of the U.S. dollar. “We should stop using the dollar and get rid of it … I know that there would be huge repercussions for that, but this would be the only way to free humankind from slavery … to America and its companies,” he added.<\/p>\n
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The broadcast came less than a week after bin Laden praised as a “hero” Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who allegedly tried to detonate explosives on a U.S. plane approaching Detroit on Christmas Day, in another audio message.<\/p>\n
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Bin Laden has a $50 million bounty on his head and has been in hiding for the past eight years. He is widely believed to be holed up along the remote mountainous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
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