"Bin Laden Rebukes U.S. on Climate Change"

To The Editor:

The United States, as far as the public knows has not heard from Osama bin Ladin in four months as of yesterday. Today a message has been publicly unveiled and discussed in the January 29th article "Bin Laden Rebukes U.S. on Climate Change". This is bin Ladin's second message to the United States within a week, the first commending the Detroit bomber.

Nowhere in the article does the author refer to the fact that these messages have just drastically increased, and what this increased communication could mean. Instead the author chooses to treat the subject lightly saying "Mr. bin Laden veered away from his traditional vows to inflict death and destruction on the United States, and instead discussed climate change, globalization and monetary policy". To me and many other Americans, this is no laughing matter. While we are not being directly threatened with terrorist attacks in this broadcast, Bin Laden is denouncing other aspects of our society. In the September 11th attacks, bin Laden was not attacking our financial institutions, but other aspects of our society. So isn't this new message as serious?

Hannah N.