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Al Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri claims responsibility for kidnapping American
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has claimed responsibility for the capture in August of a 70-year-old American citizen in Pakistan, according to SITE, a website that monitors terrorist threats.
"Just as the Americans detain all whom they suspect of links to al Qaeda and the Taliban, even remotely, we detained this man who is neck-deep in American aid to Pakistan since the '70s," al-Zawahiri said, according to SITE.
The al Qaeda leader also listed demands that needed to be met before he would release Warren Weinstein. The demands included the ending of airstrikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. He also added that Muslim prisoners including Abu Musab al-Suri, the "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdul Rahman, Ramzi Yousef, Sayyid Nosair, and the family of Osama bin Laden must also be released.
Police have arrested three suspects in the kidnapping of Weinstein, a development expert from the United States who was snatched August 13 in his home in Lahore, Pakistan, a police official said.
The official asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad said she was not aware of any arrests.
Weinstein was abducted August 13 when gunmen, posing as neighbors offering food, pistol-whipped him and his driver and tied up his guards, U.S. Embassy and Pakistani officials said.
Weinstein works for J.E. Austin Associates Inc., a U.S. consulting firm based in Arlington, Virginia, a Pakistani official said. He is a world-renowned development expert, with 25 years of experience, according to his company's website. The site says he was heading what the company described as the "Pakistan Initiative for Strategic Development and Competitiveness."
As Weinstein's security guards prepared for the meal before the Ramadan fast, three men knocked at the front gate and offered food for the meal - a traditional practice among Muslims during the Ramadan holy month, according to senior Lahore police official Tajamal Hussain.
Once the gate was opened, the three men forced their way in, while five other suspects entered the house from the back, Hussain said. The men tied up the three security guards and duct-taped their mouths, he said. They pistol-whipped the driver and forced him to take them to Weinstein's room where the men hit Weinstein in the head with a pistol, and forced him out of the house and into a waiting car, Hussain said.
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The mantra of ALL terrorists (regardless of thier origins) is "no good dead goes unpunished".
fumble fingers...meant DEED
Crazy stuff.
@ hope
Perhaps the sarcastic take on the current situation on the ground in my 4:42 escaped your attention.
What aid to Pakistan/? Of the 7.5 billion aid to Pakistan over the next 5 years approved by Congress in 2009 we have hardly paid them 300 million so far. And that too for fighting a war for us, not out of our love for them.
Sorry...
I was referring to the 11 billion dollars that Hillary Clinton pledged to them for humanitarian purposes a few weeks ago.
@ Pete/Ark
No problem even 'dead' would do. The way things go there.
...think that's thier point ?
Maybe this could lead to negotiations between the U.S. and Al Qaeda but I'm afraid that the right-wingers in Washington won't let it happen since far too many people are making money out of this so-called "war on terror". They just don't want any end to this. We sorely need a new President like Rep. Ron Paul of Texas.
Very well said, Marine5484. Thank you. I completely agree.
These wars have been gold mines for our elected leaders. It is destabilized Iraq afghanistan pakistan and soon iran. This starting to look like usa doesnt want india and china to have peace in that region.
@ marine 5484
I agree completely. Its no secret that we have been trying to engage Talibans in a dialogue for some time now which is now an imperative with no viable exit strategy.
@ George Patton
The neo-cons wittingly or otherwise, working against American geo-political interests continue whipping up Islamophobia & conjuring up Islamic conspiracy thories.
I would never set foot in the middle east as a civilian. You have to be brain dead to do so.
@Marine5484:
Your posts are boring.
Is-lame means piece! A piece of you here a piece of you there and the rest way over there! All-ah-snack-bar!
Hey Taliban! And all you other freaks of the universe! GO F U C K YOURSELVE'S! F U C K I N P U S S I E'S
Anyone with half a brain would that whoever posted the above is a Tea Partier by his using his own choice of words. Now I expect to be trolled again pretty soon!
It's funny just how all these uneducated Tea Partiers hate the Muslims. By posting their anti-Islam drivel on this web page, they're only displaying their ignorance about the Middle East. I bet that most of them don't even know what the Muslims believe. Unfortunately, they do know how to troll people like me by stealing my name and then to post their ignorance under it!!!
Geaorge Patton, your posts are boring.
So are yours, Marine5484.
Stop trolling chrissy. She would never agree with a dolt like you.
WOW, 8 armed assailants kidnap ONE seventy year old man who's purpose in being in the country was to provide expert opinion on industry and infrastructure. AND the kidnappers used a Ramadan tradition to perpetrate the crime. Who has the moral high ground here? Never underestimate the power of religious brainwashing.
At least this Waren Weinstein is still alive. Back on May 2 last, the memebers of the Navy Seal Team 6 just shot the purported Ussama bin Laden down like a dog, although he suffered from nephritis. These thugs could have taken him alive quite easily, but didn't!!!
as a pakistani-american, i urge the al-qaeda to release mr. weinstein unharmed, or there will be consequences.
Why would the American admin. allow an American jew to work in Pakistan? This guy needs hie head examined. Pure nuts!
Juden