Bin Laden calls for action on climate change

Osama bin Laden has criticised relief efforts in Pakistan and called for action against climate change in what appeared to be a new audio tape from the Al Qaeda leader.

The message marks the second time in a year that bin Laden has departed from his usual calls for armed attacks on the West to make a global theme such a natural disasters or economic crisis the centrepiece of a message.
It follows a statement in mid-September by Al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahri also accusing the Pakistani government of reacting too slowly to the floods and a statement earlier this week by Al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn on a similar theme.
The bin Laden message, about 11 minutes long, was broadcast with a video showing still images of bin Laden and images of natural disasters, the Islamist website used by Al Qaeda said.
The authenticity of the tape and its precise release date could not be immediately confirmed. However, bin Laden congratulates Muslims on the holy month of Ramadan, which started on August 11 and ended September 9.
He describes the fate of the Pakistani people following catastrophic floods, saying: "Millions of children are out in the open air, lacking basic elements of living, including drinking water, resulting in their bodies shedding liquids and subsequently their death."
Bin Laden also touches on global warming, the second time he is believed to have made climate change a prominent theme of one of his statements.
"The huge climate change is affecting our [Islamic] nation and is causing great catastrophes throughout the Islamic world," he says in the tape.
"It is not sufficient anymore to maintain the same relief efforts as previously, as it has become crucial to deliver tents, food and medicine."

Disasters exploited

Islamic charities, some with suspected ties to militant groups, were quicker than the Pakistani government to provide relief to flood victims.
Pakistani and US officials have repeatedly expressed concern that the Taliban and other militant groups could exploit the disarray to gain recruits.
Experts say South Asia is particularly vulnerable to climate change. A thaw of glaciers in the Himalayas could disrupt flows in rivers from the Ganges to the Yangtze, affecting hundreds of millions of people in Asia. Rising seas are also a big threat to densely populated low-lying areas of Bangladesh.
Noman Benotman, a former bin Laden associate who now works for Britain's Quilliam counter-extremism think-tank, said his use of a humanitarian message was a sign of desperation and showed the group was trying anything to gain popular support.
Al Qaeda has never pursued systematic humanitarian work during natural disasters of the kind carried out by aid organisations and Islamic relief charities, analysts say.
Australian counter-terrorism expert Leah Farrall described the statement as "hypocritical", noting that internal Al Qaeda documents found in Afghanistan and dated about 2000 commanded members not to be "distracted by relief and aid operations."
Bin Laden urged a big transformation in how relief work is executed, calling the number of victims of climate change much bigger than the victims of war.
The message was bin Laden's first since March 25, when he threatened to execute any Americans captured by Al Qaeda if accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was executed.
US soldiers and Afghan militia forces assaulted the Tora Bora mountains in 2001 after the September 11 attacks on the United States in pursuit of the Saudi-born bin Laden.
But he has never been found and is believed to be hiding in the mountainous border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Just a few random funnies

The new recruits to the Afghan National Police have been given wooden rifle during their training period. These trainees are very new without any military experience and wooden rifles have been used instead of real weapons. Officers were concerened that they could hurt themselves with real guns as few incidents happened before where few trainees hurt themselves while cleaning theguns.
Recruits to the Police include farmers, shopowners and even students who are trained by the International Security Assistance Force. These trainees will be given real guns after completing their training period.

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I just love some of the plans they have come up with to find osama.

Could Airborne Bears Catch Bin Laden?

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Could parachute-wearing bears sniff out Osama bin Laden?
That's one suggestion the Pentagon has received from someone who noted, quite correctly, that a bear's sense of smell is much more powerful than a bloodhound's.
"Overnight, Parachute some bears into areas [bin Laden] might be," the innovator wrote. "Attempt to train bears to take off parachutes after landing, or use parachutes that self-destruct after landing."
The bears-in-the-air idea, and scores of others, came from people who clicked on the "contact us" button on the Defense Department's Web site, which allows the general public to ask questions or make suggestions.
Not that the Pentagon needs any particular help in the idea department. Not long ago, for example, the agency spent $2 million to find out whether honey bees could be relied upon to sniff out roadside bombs.
The Defense Department provided Stars and Stripes a sampling of some of the more bizarre feedback it gets through its Web site, www.defense.gov. The authors' names were withheld, but all spelling, grammar and paranoia are authentic.
"Would there be time to construct a Noah's Ark Biosphere in North America if there is an emerging Global War starting in the Middle East?" asked one concerned citizen. "I don't know ... I only know that I have worked on such a project for many years now."
The specifications for the recommended ark are outlined in the Bible, the writer noted, adding that it could preserve a specimen of the human population for up to 300 years.
"Then after the period of ‘Hibernation' people and materials would emerge to repopulate the Earth," the person wrote.
Another correspondent asked for help with some personal issues.
"I still have people torturing my pelvis and lungs with dispersed sound waves and my eye and stomach, hip, pelvic region with other types of sound waves," the person wrote. "When the secret service came out they had a letter all prepared by my mother to force me on disability and not let me live with her and try to leave me penniless and homeless again."
One writer let the Defense Department know of a dream something was about to happen. Likely on a Friday.
"I have no idea what this might be, do you?" the person asked.
And as might be expected, many of those who e-mail the Defense Department have searching questions about the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
"Has anyone at the Department [of] Defense noticed that the Twin Towers were destroyed on 9/11, and that when you dial emergency services in the USA you dial 911?" the person wrote. "If so, is this merely a coincidence?"

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Some of the messages ...
Below are a sampling of some of the more bizarre messages sent to the Pentagon through the "Contact Us" link on the Defense Department Web site. Bears have scent detection that is far superior to bloodhounds! Trained bears with GPS and day/night cameras around their necks might be able to hunt down the scent of UBL, even in and through any caves and tunnels!!! Overnight, Parachute some bears into areas UBL might be. Attempt to train bears to take off parachutes after landing, or use parachutes that self-destruct after landing.
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So do you have any top scret information you would to like to tell me? i am doing a project for my senior economics class, and was just wondering...email me back.
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I still have people torturing my pelvis and lungs with dispersed sound waves and my eye and stomach, hip, pelvic region with other types of sound waves. When the secret service came out they had a letter all prepared by my mother to force me on disability and not let me live with her and try to leave me penniless and homeless again. They want me to marry the Jewish pilot they've been blaming and calling black and live in my mothers home and be tortured and watch us on candid camera. I am going to a disability doctors appointment today. And leaving and going into low-income housing in the Washington DC area in dead air space so my mother will pay off my credit card like she said in her letter. That meets the requirement of the letter and I am not going to stay and be tortured because the pentagon would not fire their employees and the secret service did not get you to make a statement to tell the pentagon to stand down. I will make a statement all across the US as I drive out and the pilots usually only stay a couple weeks when I leave Hermiston so everyone else out here will be taking the heat instead of me and they have already been playing with the cops, sheriffs, judges, etc with magnetic waves and no one can tell the difference. They just use me for confessional and keep saying I am schizophrenic and torturing me to cover for them and make themselves feel better while they screw everyone. Since the Jewish pilot they have been calling black has been threatened if I leave and they have already been playing with him. If you really want him married to me to protect him and break this cycle - you'd better have him land on my doorstep.
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Would there be time to construct a Noah's Ark Biosphere in North America if there is an emerging Global War starting in the Middle East? I don't know ... I only know that I have worked on such a project for many years now. If a Global War emerges and much life and civilization is damaged or destroyed due to the use of massive weapons then there may be a need to construct a survival Ark ... of Biblical proportions .. a Dome City .. a New Jerusalem Ark .. to preserve a remnant of earth-kind and make it possible for the earth to be resettled some 200 or 300 years in the future. The problem is it takes a lot of resources to build a modern day Noah's Ark ... and lots of planning and development. Yet it seems reasonable to assume this planning should be done if there is only a ten percent chance of Global War even within the next 20 years let alone the next 20 months.
The Bible lays out the basic specifications for the New Jerusalem Biosphere ... not very many people realize how this is fully realized. The concept of a city 1300 miles on a side is ludicrous yet if the 12,000 furlong measure is transformed into an overall measure of length, width and height in combination then this parameter can be consistent with the 4500 by 4500 cubit specification in Ezekiel . Here lies the key .. along with the 12 tower design .. the twelve towers being the twelve foundations. And so if goes ... and these specs lay the foundation for a modern day Noah's Ark.
Is there time to do the detailed design and development work .. and lay out the materials and foundation and build the structure and infrastructure ... I don't know ... But if there is going to be a Global War then I believe some sort of Noah's Ark would have to be build to ride out a period of intense atmospheric damage. Then after the period of "Hibernation" people and materials would emerge to repopulate the Earth.
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Why didn't the huge wingspan of the Boeing 757 make a mark in the walls of the Pentagon?
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I read a lot of books about 9/11. And so I have a question: How can it be, that Flight AA 175 was bigger than the hole in the pentagon?
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here is my question and i'm sure you will not read this or even get back to me or you will even lie to me but here it is simply: why was there no plane at the penagon after there was supposely one that flew into there? and why is there only a couple cameras that we are alowed to see?? i have been doing some research and things are just not adding up and i'm very very very curious if you could please e-mail me back i would really appriacate it thanks
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Explain the unexplained? Or should I say confess your sins? The questions regarding 911/Pentagon seem relevant. What shall we expect next on Friday of any week? I heard a dream once that something big would happen on a Friday? I have no idea what this might be, do you? I have also heard that America and Canada will cooperate in sharing it's military freely in the event of anything that may transpire really soon. I am hearing alarming rumors and stories, what do you have to say? I am only a concerned citizen asking under the umbrella of "freedom of speech", can you answer with the say freedom I ask?
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Has anyone at the Department if Defense noticed that the Twin Towers were destroyed on 9/11, and that when you dial emergency services in the USA you dial 911? If so, is this merely a coincidence

Source: http://m.military.com/news/article/could-airborne-bears-catch-bin-laden.html

Ninja mask

My favourite cake

Rich chocolate cake

Ingredients (serves 12)

* 200g good-quality dark chocolate, chopped
* 200g butter, softened
* 1 cup dark brown sugar
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 3 eggs, at room temperature
* 1 1/2 cups self-raising flour
* 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
* 1/2 cup milk
* chocolate curls or shavings (optional), to serve (see note)
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Chocolate icing
* 200g good-quality dark chocolate, chopped
* 1/2 cup thickened cream

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Method

1.

Preheat oven to 170°C. Grease and line base and side of a 6cm deep, 22cm (base) round cake pan.
2.

Place chocolate in a heatproof, microwave-safe bowl. Microwave, uncovered, on MEDIUM (50%) for 1 to 2 minutes, stirring every minute with a metal spoon, until almost melted. Stir until smooth. Set aside for 10 minutes to cool.
3.

Using an electric mixer, cream butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Add melted chocolate. Beat until well combined. Sift flour and cocoa together. Fold half the flour mixture into butter mixture. Add half the milk. Stir gently to combine. Repeat with remaining flour mixture and milk. Spoon into prepared pan. Smooth surface. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
4.

Stand cake in pan for 15 minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Spread icing over top and side. Top with chocolate curls, if using. Serve.
5.

To make chocolate icing: Combine chocolate and cream in a heatproof, microwave-safe bowl. Microwave, uncovered, on MEDIUM-HIGH (70%) for 1 to 2 minutes, stirring every minute with a metal spoon, until almost melted. Stir until smooth. Set aside for 30 minutes or until thick enough to spread.