Al-Qaeda claims holding U.S. hostage in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - to monitor the terrorist group al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, according to an online report, four months ago, an American hostage kidnapped in Pakistan (United States), which holds that the development worker.

On August 13 gunmen in his home, tricked their way, then Warren Weinstein, 70, country director of US-based consulting JE Austin Associates, separating, days before he was due back in America.

Zawahiri claimed responsibility, and Washington and finally air in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, the attacks and to obtain the release of Mr. Weinstein, Osama bin Laden in the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, and relatives demanded the release.

'Americans and al-Qaeda and Taleban links the suspect, whom all disliked, as even remotely, we're in 1970 from Pakistan, American Aid neck - deep is who is this person under arrest,' Web Intelligence Division as Zawahiri quotes jihadist forums sent a 31-minute video, he said.