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| 1 year ago
My life is in your hands, Mr. President, Weinstein, 70, a former Peace Corps and U.S. Agency for International Development official, said on the video posted May 6 on Islamist websites...It's important that you accept the demands and act quickly and...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
Al Qaeda chief slams US apology for Quran burning AFP 17 mins ago Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri...English-language translation of his nearly seven-minute message. In February, thousands of Afghan protesters attacked the biggest US military base in...
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Asia Times Online
| 1 year ago
The refusal of the Barack Obama administration to negotiate with al-Qaeda for the release of a Jewish American who was abducted from Lahore in August 2010, may bring death to the 70-year old hostage. This was the case with another Jewish American,...
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Rediff
| 1 year ago
Afghanistan, asking the US to formally apologise for the killing of the Pakistani soldiers. However, the US administration is not ready to apologise, thinking that doing so in an election year could badly affect President Barack Obama's re-election...
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Pak Tribune
| 1 year ago
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri claims that they are holding hostage a US development worker kidnapped in Pakistan four months ago, according to an online statement seen by monitors. Warren Weinstein, 70, country director for US-based consultancy...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 1 year ago
U.S. officials on Monday reiterated that they would not negotiate with al-Qaida after an American development worker kidnapped last year in Pakistan appeared in a video released by the militant group saying his captors would kill him if President...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
US won't negotiate with al Qaeda over hostage Washington: The White House has declined to negotiate with al Qaeda about an elderly US hostage, kidnapped from Pakistan and being held by the militant group since last August. Xinhua reported on Tuesday.
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Baltimore Sun
| 1 year ago
My life is in your hands, Mr. President," veteran development worker Warren Weinstein said in the video, which was posted late Sunday on several militant websites. "If you accept the demands, I live; if you don't accept the demands, then I die."...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
Questions have been raised in the past as to how ethical the practice of offering money for blood is... Public transport woes hit the streets of over forty cities in the former Soviet Union once again as ... Earlier this year video of DJ duo Art...
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CNN Blog
| 1 year ago
A 70-year-old U.S. citizen kidnapped in Pakistan last year has made an emotional plea to President Barack Obama to meet al Qaeda's demands in order to save his life, according to a video released on several Islamist websites Sunday. "My life is in...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
In a video released Sunday by al-Qaida, American hostage Warren Weinstein said he will be killed unless President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group's demands.
"My life is in your hands, Mr. President," Weinstein said in the...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
US hostage Warren Weinstein has appeared in an al-Qaeda video for the first time since he was kidnapped in Pakistan in August...The elderly Weinstein, dressed in a traditional Pakistani tunic and speaking impassively to camera in English, tells his...
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Belleville News-Democrat
| 1 year ago
Al-Qaida has released a video of American hostage Warren Weinstein in which the 70-year-old humanitarian aid worker says he will be killed unless President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group's demands. In the video, Weinstein appeals to Obama...