"Taliban Vow To Tackle Climate Change:...."

Not kidding. They are also in line for a spot on the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women.*

Again, not kidding

From the Daily Mail, August 25:

Taliban vow to tackle CLIMATE CHANGE: Terror group sets out its eco credentials (presumably by taking Afghanistan back to the Middle Ages)

The Taliban has vowed to tackle climate change and global security as part of the terror group's attempt to rebrand itself and modernise despite reports of civilian executions and the erosion of women's rights under the new Afghan regime.

Abdul Qahar Balkhi, a member of the Taliban's Cultural Commission, says the Islamists want to play a role on the global stage.

He told Newsweek: 'We hope not only to be recognised by regional countries but the entire world at large as the legitimate representative government of the people of Afghanistan who have gained their right of self-determination from a foreign occupation with the backing and support of an entire nation after a prolonged struggle and immense sacrifices despite all odds being stacked against our people....

....MUCH MORE

Previously (and probably related):

Friday, September 7, 2007
Osama Bin Laden on Global Warming
From the AFP transcript of the Sept. 7 al-Queda video.

"...In fact, the life of all of mankind is in danger because of the global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of the factories of the major corporations, yet despite that, the representative of these corporations in the White House insists on not observing the Kyoto accord, with the knowledge that the statistic speaks of the death and displacement of the millions of human beings because of that, especially in Africa.

This greatest of plagues and most dangerous of threats to the lives of humans is taking place in an accelerating fashion as the world is being dominated by the democratic system, which confirms its massive failure to protect humans and their interests from the greed and avarice of the major corporations and their representatives...."

Via the Ottawa Citizen (link rotted)
We have more on Bin Laden above.

Mr. bin Laden expands on the thoughts he expressed in his 2002
"Letter to the American People":

"You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries" al Queda leader Osama bin Laden wrote in a 2002 "letter to the American people".

And October 2011:
"Go green, Hezbollah guerrilla chief tells Lebanese"

And probably not related, May 2012:
Al-Qaida on U.S. Media: "Fox News 'lacks neutrality'; MSNBC 'Good' Until it Fired Keith Olbermann" 

*There is some related precedent:
March 2011
Irrelevant United Nations 'Suspends' Libya from Human Rights Council

The fact that Libya was on the Human Rights Council at all tells you everything you need to know about the U.N.
In 2003 Libya was voted Chair of the Human Rights Commission which was replaced by the Council in 2006 when they couldn't handle having the free world laugh at them any more.

Then Libya was voted onto the new body in 2010.

The only thing more psychotic than Libya as Chair of the Commission would be putting someone like Mugabe's Zimbabwe in charge of the U.N.'s Commission on Sustainable Development.

Oh wait... .they did that in May 2007.
Bunch of sick fucks.

There, I've catharted. Thank you for your patience.
[his ranting gets raves -ed]....