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US working closely with Pakistan to recover kidnapped American worker | US State Department spokesperson Mark Toner has said Washington is in touch with Pakistan on the Warren Weinstein kidnapping case, despite both nations having differences over the November 2011 NATO strike. Weinstein, a 70-year-old
U.S. aid worker, has made an emotional video appeal to President Barack Obama
to respond to his kidnappers’ demands. He appeared in an al-Qaida video for the
first time since he was kidnapped just days before he was to return home in August,
reports Japan Today. “If you accept the demands, I live; if you don’t accept the
demands, then I die,” he told Obama in the video. “We obviously remain very, very
concerned about the safety and well-being of Mr Weinstein,” Toner said, adding
that they are “obviously also in close contact with Mr Weinstein’s family, offering
appropriate consular assistance, as they request it”. The two-minute, 40-second
video was posted on jihadist forums by al-Qaida’s media arm as-Sahab, according
to the U.S.-based monitoring service SITE. Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has
demanded that Washington end air strikes in Afghanistan , Pakistan , Somalia and
Yemen , and release the 1993 World Trade Center bombers along with relatives of
Osama bin Laden. Toner said the U.S. believes that Weinstein is “most likely”
being held in Pakistan ’s lawless tribal areas, but cannot confirm it. Toner,
however, maintained that the U.S. , as per policy, did not negotiate with terrorists.
He added that they could not say for certain if the video was credible, and analysis
was underway on when the video was made, reports The Express Tribune. |
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