http://www.msnbc.com/news/662544.asp?cp1=1
   
   Why PETA's targeting bin Laden
   
   MSNBC
       Nov. 26 -  Now Osama bin Laden really has reason to be
   afraid: He's being targeted by the People for the Ethical
   Treatment of Animals. The guerilla animal rights group - which
   is notorious for tactics such as throwing red paint on fur wearers
   - is planning a campaign against Osama bin Laden.
   
   Were also letting people know that if they buy these leather goods
   from Italy, they could be helping fund bin Ladens terrorism.


   "AS IF WE needed any other reason to hate this man, it turns out that
   he also runs tanneries," says PETA spokesman
   Dan Mathews. "He also uses dogs in his training camps to test
   nerve gas." Mathews, who will unveil his anti-Osama campaign
   shortly, says that bin Laden's tanneries have operated in
   Khartoum in the Sudan for 10 years, and leather from those tanneries
   is sent to Italy. The products are sometimes sold in the U.S. and the
   proceeds are used to support terrorist activities, he says.

          "In addition to launching a publicity campaign against
   bin Laden himself, we're also letting people know that if they
   buy these leather goods from Italy, they could be helping fund bin
   Laden's terrorism," says Mathews. "It's blood money that is used
   against both humans and animals."