Lahore: Hong Kong: Al-Qaeda has released a video, showing US hostage Warren Weinstein for the first time since he was kidnapped in Pakistan in August last year.
According reports, the two minute, 40 second video was posted on jihadist forums by al Qaeda’s media arm al-Sahab on Sunday.
The elderly Weinstein, dressed in a traditional Pakistani tunic and speaking impassively to camera in English, tells his wife Elaine that “I’m fine, I’m well, I’m getting all my medications, I’m being taken care of”.
He also urges US President Barack Obama to respond to the demands of his kidnappers.
Weinstein was kidnapped from his Lahore home on August 13.
Among its demands in exchange for Weinstein, al Qaeda has called for the release from US custody of “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdul Rahman, Ramzi Yousef and Sayyid Nosair, who are tied to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
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