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Jewish-American Warren Weinstein, who has been held hostage since last August by al-Qaeda in Pakistan, appeared on a newly released video this week pleading with President Obama to acquiesce to the terrorist group’s demands. Weinstein said that he would be killed if Obama did not agree to cease its airstrikes in a number of Muslim countries and release essentially all Muslim terror suspects worldwide.
“My life is in your hands, Mr. President,” Weinstein said in the tape. “If you accept the demands, I live; if you don’t accept the demands, then I die.” 
Weinstein, age 70, lives in Rockville, Maryland and at the time of his abduction was serving as the country director in Pakistan for J.E. Austin Associates, a Virginia-based firm that provides professional advice to a variety of Pakistani business and government sectors.
In a video message that was posted on militant websites this past December, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri insisted that Weinstein would be released only when the United States ended its airstrikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. He also demanded the release of all al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects around the world. The White House has not issued any comments on the new video.
According to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors terrorists’ messages, Al-Sahab – the media division of al-Qaeda’s media arm – placed the Weinstein video on jihadist forums on Sunday.“It’s important you accept the demands and act quickly and don’t delay,” Weinstein said in the video, speaking to the president. “There’ll be no benefit in delaying, it will just make things more difficult for me.”
He also appealed to Obama as a fellow father. If the president goes along with the terrorists’ demands, Weinstein said, “then I will live and hopefully rejoin my family and also enjoy my children, my two daughters, like you enjoy your two daughters.”
Following his kidnapping, Weinstein’s company said that he was in poor health, and it publicized a detailed list of medications, many of them for heart problems, that it requested the kidnappers give him. In the video released this past week, Weinstein said he would like his wife, Elaine, to know “I’m fine, I’m well, I’m getting all my medications, I’m being taken care of.”

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