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(VIDEO) American Al Qaeda hostage Warren Weinstein implores Obama to help

Monday, 07 May 2012 20:00
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NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

An Al Qaeda video has surfaced of an American hostage pleading for his life.

"My life is in your hands, Mr. President," Warren Weinstein said in a nearly three-minute video released to Islamist websites, according to CNN. "If you accept the demands, I live. If you don't accept the demands, then I die."

According to an Associated Press report on ABC News, Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri said Weinstein would be released if the U.S. stopped bombing Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, and released al-Qaida and Taliban terrorism suspects worldwide.

The State Department has kept in contact with Weinstein’s family, but says the United States does not negotiate for hostages.

Weinstein, a development consultant, was kidnapped back in August from a city in Pakistan. al-Zawahri said in December that Al Qaeda was responsible for the abduction of Weinstein. The 70-year old had lived and worked in Lahore, Pakistan for more than five years before being abducted.

Weinstein implored President Barack Obama to act quickly, and appealed to him as a father. Weinstein, like Obam a, has two daughters.

A former colleague of Weinstein said to NBC News that Weinstein had been having health issues before he was taken, and he was treating a heart condition with medication and diet.

It is not known where the video was filmed, but according to Mail Online, earlier reports have said Weinstein was being held in Waziristan, in northwest Pakistan.The video was released just days after Obama revealed plans to withdraw most U.S. troops from Afghanistan by 2014.

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Islam
1 Tuesday, 08 May 2012 03:55
BIll J
These people are savages. Islam is the cause for most bloodshed on the planet today. It is a cancer in this planet and has to be destroyed. I wish the U.S. kills all terrorist prisoners and drops nuclear bombs across the middle east... A scorched earth method of dealing with these dogs is the only way to rid the world of the hateful, disgusting, savage, useless, ill informed, barbaric, obsolete, primitive and outright stupidity that is islam and the quaran.
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