Does Bin Laden read the Guardian letters page?
Topic: Politics
A few months ago, a reader of this site wrote to me, asking me to link him to transcripts of Bin Laden's declarations. In the course of comparing his earlier writing (1996) to his later declarations (2002 and 2004), I remarked in my e-mail back:

"I have to confess that I find the last two quite amusing in some ways. The 2002 letter to the American people mentions the US's failure to sign the Kyoto protocol. This has always looked odd to me. It's almost as though bin Laden was reading the Guardian letters page and decided to chuck it into the list of grievances on a whim. It sits very oddly with the decision to bomb London on the week of the G8 conference when climate change (as well as addressing poverty) was on the agenda."

Well I'm not the only one who has noticed this.