Al-Qaida Hostage Begs for Obama's Help

Al-Qaida Hostage Begs for Obama's Help, Hostage Warren Weinstein taken by Al-Qaida makes video plea to Obama from Pakistan: ‘My life is in your hands’, The American says he will die unless the president agrees to the militants' demands. A video of an American citizen apparently kidnapped in Pakistan by Al-Qaida last year was released online late Sunday, showing the hostage making a desperate plea to President Obama.

"My life is in your hands, Mr. President," Warren Weinstein, the 70-year-old hostage, said in the two-minute video, posted on several Islamist websites. "If you accept the demands, I live. If you don't accept the demands, then I die."

According to CNN, those demands--listed by Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, include:

• The lifting of the blockade on movement of people and trade between Egypt and Gaza

• An end to bombing by the United States and its allies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and Gaza

• The release of anyone arrested on charges of belonging to al Qaeda and the Taliban

• The release of all prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and American secret prisons and the closure of Guantanamo and the other prisons

• The release of terrorists convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center

• The release of relatives of Osama bin Laden

Weinstein, a development consultant living in Pakistan, was reportedly kidnapped from his home last August. Al-Qaida later claimed responsibility for the abduction.

"It is important that you accept these demands and act quickly and don't delay," Weinstein said in the video. "There'll be no benefit in delaying, it will just make things more difficult for me."

"I will live and hopefully rejoin my family and also enjoy my children, my two daughters, like you enjoy your two daughters," he said, asking viewers to relay a message his wife: "I'd like her to know I'm fine, I'm well, I'm getting all my medications, I'm being taken care of."

source: yahoo