Washington: The US has refused to negotiate with al Qaeda over the fate of a 70-year-old American aid worker, who had recently appealed President Barack Obama via video posted by as-Sahab, as Qaeda’s media arm, on jihadist forums.
“We cannot and will not negotiate with al Qaeda,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said. He said that the officials were working to find Warren Weinstein and were greatly concerned to save his life.
Earlier, Warren Weinstein, appeared for the first time since his kidnapping from Lahore, Pakistan in August last year.
“If you accept the demands, I live; if you don’t accept the demands, then I die,” he told Obama in the video.
Weinstein, 70, suffers from asthma, heart problems and high blood pressure.
Ayman al-Zawahiri has demanded that Washington end air strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, and release the 1993 World Trade Centre bombers along with relatives of Osama bin Laden.
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