MMC
12-02-2011, 08:52 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/al-qaida-claims-holding-american-aid-worker-seized-214522993.html
Al-Qaida is holding an American aid worker who was kidnapped in Pakistan last August, the terrorist group's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has claimed in a video posted on the Internet, according to the SITE terrorism research group, which monitors jihadi websites.
The abducted American the group claims to be holding is Warren Weinstein, a 70-year-old development expert and former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) official, who was abducted from his home in Lahore, Pakistan on August 13, the CNN report said.
At the time of his abduction, Weinstein was working for "J.E. Austin Associates Inc., a U.S. consulting firm based in Arlington, Virginia," CNN said (http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=136tcv8rs/EXP=1324042596/**http%3A//www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/08/23/pakistan.american.kidnapped/index.html) in an earlier report. On the firm's website, Weinstein is described as a "a world-renowned development expert, with 25 years of experience," who was working in the country on a project called the Pakistan Initiative for Strategic Development and Competitiveness.
On the recent video, al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian doctor who succeeded Osama bin Laden as the chief of al-Qaida, "listed eight conditions for Weinstein's release," CNN reported. Among them: "the halting of air strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, and the release of Muslim prisoners such as Abu Musab al-Suri, the 'Blind Sheikh' Omar Abdul Rahman, Ramzi Yousef, Sayyid Nosair, and relatives of Osama bin Laden.".....snip~
Has the #2 man for AQ lost his mind? He wants all that for a 70 year old CIA Agent Contact Man. Is the World suppose to treat this seriously?
Al-Qaida is holding an American aid worker who was kidnapped in Pakistan last August, the terrorist group's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has claimed in a video posted on the Internet, according to the SITE terrorism research group, which monitors jihadi websites.
The abducted American the group claims to be holding is Warren Weinstein, a 70-year-old development expert and former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) official, who was abducted from his home in Lahore, Pakistan on August 13, the CNN report said.
At the time of his abduction, Weinstein was working for "J.E. Austin Associates Inc., a U.S. consulting firm based in Arlington, Virginia," CNN said (http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=136tcv8rs/EXP=1324042596/**http%3A//www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/08/23/pakistan.american.kidnapped/index.html) in an earlier report. On the firm's website, Weinstein is described as a "a world-renowned development expert, with 25 years of experience," who was working in the country on a project called the Pakistan Initiative for Strategic Development and Competitiveness.
On the recent video, al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian doctor who succeeded Osama bin Laden as the chief of al-Qaida, "listed eight conditions for Weinstein's release," CNN reported. Among them: "the halting of air strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, and the release of Muslim prisoners such as Abu Musab al-Suri, the 'Blind Sheikh' Omar Abdul Rahman, Ramzi Yousef, Sayyid Nosair, and relatives of Osama bin Laden.".....snip~
Has the #2 man for AQ lost his mind? He wants all that for a 70 year old CIA Agent Contact Man. Is the World suppose to treat this seriously?