Jewish American Hostage Urges Netanyahu to Meet al Qaeda Demands
A US aid worker held by al-Qaida in Pakistan for more
than a year has appealed to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to help
meet the demands of his captors and secure his release, a group that monitors
Islamist websites said on Wednesday.
Hostage Warren Weinstein said US President Barack Obama
had shown no interest in his case and had failed to respond or accept
al-Qaida's demands, the SITE monitoring service said.
"Therefore, as a Jew, I am appealing to you, Prime
Minister Netanyahu, the head of the Jewish State of Israel, as one Jew to
another, to please intervene on my behalf, to work with the mujahideen and to
accept their demands so that I can be released and returned to my family, see
my wife, my children and my grandchildren again," SITE quoted Weinstein as
saying in a video released by al-Qaida.
Weinstein, who was kidnapped in the central Pakistani
city of Lahore in August 2011, pleaded with Obama in a similar recording in
May, saying his life was in his hands.
Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri said in December the
group was responsible for Weinstein's abduction and demanded the release of all
those in US detention for ties to his Islamist militant group or the Taliban.
He also demanded an end to air strikes by the United
States and its allies against militants in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and
Somalia and Gaza.
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