Warren Weinstein, a 70-year-old U.S. citizen kidnapped in Pakistan made an emotional plea to President Obama in a video posted by al Qaeda. “My life is in your hands, Mr. President,” Weinstein said in the video posted on CNN. “If you accept the demands, I live. If you don’t accept the demands, then I die.”
CNN reports on al Qaeda’s demands:
Al Qaeda’s demands 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; and the release of relatives of Osama bin Laden, the founder of al Qaeda who was killed last year in Pakistan.
