{"id":101288,"date":"2013-12-26T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/kidnapped-american-asks-u-s-to-negotiate-with-al-qaeda-for-his-release\/"},"modified":"2013-12-26T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T16:27:00","slug":"kidnapped-american-asks-u-s-to-negotiate-with-al-qaeda-for-his-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/kidnapped-american-asks-u-s-to-negotiate-with-al-qaeda-for-his-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapped American asks U.S. to negotiate with al-Qaeda for his release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ernesto Londo\u00c3\u00b1o<\/strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/kidnapped-american-asks-us-to-negotiate-with-al-qaeda-for-his-release\/2013\/12\/25\/8b0f7912-6dcd-11e3-b405-7e360f7e9fd2_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a><br \/>December 26, 2013<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. government contractor kidnapped by al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan in 2011 has recorded a video message calling on the Obama administration to negotiate with his captors, saying he feels \u201ctotally abandoned and forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warren Weinstein looked ashen and sounded lethargic as he pleaded for renewed interest in his case and asked the U.S. government to consider releasing<br \/>al-Qaeda militants in its custody. The 72-year-old development expert from Rockville, Md., began his address by urging President Obama to step up efforts to get him released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are now in your second term as president of the United States and that means that you can take hard decisions without worrying about reelection,\u201d said Weinstein, who was recorded sitting against a white wall wearing a gray tracksuit top and a black woolen hat. No one else appeared in the video. <\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Thursday, December 26, 2013  at  10:03 am<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p><!-- share and follow --><!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/kidnapped-american-asks-u-s-to-negotiate-with-al-qaeda-for-his-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Kidnapped American asks U.S. to negotiate with al-Qaeda for his release\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernesto Londo\u00c3\u00b1oWashington PostDecember 26, 2013 A U.S. government contractor kidnapped by al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan in 2011 has recorded a video message calling on the Obama administration to negotiate with his captors, saying he feels \u201ctotally abandoned and forgotten.\u201d Warren Weinstein looked ashen and sounded lethargic as he pleaded for renewed interest in his case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}