This time,its no warning,but global warming

Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden lectured the US and other industrial nations on climate change,and urged a dollar boycott in response...

Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden lectured the US and other industrial nations on climate change,and urged a dollar boycott in response to American slavery,in a fresh verbal assault broadcast on Friday. In the message aired on Al-Jazeera television,possibly timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum in Davos,Osama said all industrial nations,mainly the big ones,are responsible for the crisis of global warming.

Discussing climate change is not an intellectual luxury,but a reality, he said in the audio recording,the authenticity of which could not be immediately verified.

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.

Osama condemned the administration of former US President George W Bush for refusing to sign the Kyoto protocol on cutting carbon emissions. Bush8230; and the Congress before him,rejected this agreement,only to satisfy the big companies, he said. Those firms are behind speculation and monopolies,and rises in prices8230; and they are behind globalisation and its tragic results.

Osama also slammed financial bailouts set up by wealthy countries to help big industry cope with the global financial crisis,saying the programmes helped companies that caused the economic meltdown. When those perpetrators fall victims to the evil they had committed,the heads of states rush to rescue them using public money.

He also borrowed from prominent American leftist Noam Chomsky,saying the US administration operates like the mafia. Chomsky was right when he pointed to a resemblance between American policies and the approach of mafia gangs. Those are the real terrorists, Osama said.

He was apparently referring to comments made in British newspaper The Guardian in November by Chomsky,a linguistics professor famous for his attacks on US policy.

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The al-Qaeda leader went on to urge a boycott of the US dollar.

We should stop using the dollar and get rid of it8230; I know that there would be huge repercussions for that,but this would be the only way to free humankind from slavery, he said.

The broadcast came less than a week after Osama praised Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,who allegedly tried to detonate explosives on a US plane approaching Detroit on Christmas Day,in another audio message.