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Sat 01 Jan 2010Bin Laden calls for US boycott over climate change
AL-QAEDA leader Osama bin Laden yesterday blamed the US and western industrial nations for climate change and called for a boycott of the dollar and US products to halt “the wheels of the American economy”.
In a taped message broadcast by al-Jazeera as economists and ministers met at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the author of the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks admitted that getting rid of the dollar would “have great consequences and grave ramifications”. But he said it was “the only means to liberate humanity from slavery and dependence on America”.
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