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A US hostage held by Al-Qaeda urges his wife in a video to contact American Jewish communities to call on US President Barack Obama to help secure his release, SITE Intelligence Group say.

Warren Weinstein, a relief worker with USAID captured in Lahore, Pakistan in August 2011, appeared in the video shared on Islamist websites yesterday, the US-based monitoring group said, in the second video appealing for his freedom in recent days.

Weinstein, who says his captors treat him well, "asked his wife to make contact with Jewish communities in the US to pressure Obama and the American government to work with and accept Al-Qaeda's demands," SITE say.

He also calls on his wife to "work with the American Jewish communities in order to work with the Israeli government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu" to help secure his freedom.

In the video appeal released on Wednesday, 12 Sept., Weinstein calls for help from Netanyahu, in a "one Jew to another" appeal, to help in his case, saying that Obama seems to take "no interest" in his captivity.

In a video in May Weinstein had asked Obama to accept the demands of his kidnappers for an end to air strikes and the release of Islamists held in the United States.

SOURCE: { http://www.ejpress.org/article/61707 }

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