Al Qaeda broadcast a video of an American kidnapped in Pakistan

"My life is in your hands, Mr. President. If you accept the demands, I will live. If you do not agree, I will die. " Kidnapped in Pakistan on August 11, 2011, the American Warren Weinstein reappeared on Monday in a video broadcast by Al Qaeda which leads directly to Barack Obama and asks him to release several members of Islamic terrorist group arrested forattack 1993 against the Twin Towers in New York and end the drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. Weinstein, 70, worked at the time of his abduction as a manager of JE Austin Associates, a company based here in the Washington metropolitan area, among other things, is dedicated to advising public and private companies operating in Pakistan. His captors accused him of being a CIA operative. He has worked in Pakistan for over 25 years. Sources from the U.S. State Department suspects that the collection is under Taliban commander Tariq Afridi, within Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan. Entitled 'A Message from Warren Weinstein its president, "the video, 2:42 minutes, showing the hostage speaking in English with Arabic subtitles. Imprinted with the image of As Sahab, the production company of Al Qaeda. Weinstein is dressed in white, before a meal and some books. He refers to his captors, generically, as the mujahideen, in a message that seems memorized or read. "I'm Harvey Weinstein, my wife is Eileen, and I want you to know I'm right, I take my medication and I are watching," he says. Obama would say: "I think not giving much importance to my situation. I am an American citizen. I have worked in public service and the U.S. government, as a professor in the service of [the funding agency] USAID and Director [of the volunteer corps] Peace Corps for many years. I have done much service for my country, my country and I hope that compensates me now. " The White House has said through his spokesman, Jay Carney, who will not negotiate with the terrorist group. "We can not negotiate with Al Qaeda, and not going to do," Carney told a news conference, adding that Washington is still trying to locate the hostage rescue. In December, Ayman Al Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden's successor at the head of Al Qaeda, was detailed in a radio address the conditions for the release of Weinstein . Among the detainees be released called was Mustafa Setmarian the Spanish founder of the Islamic terrorist group in the Iberian Peninsula, arrested by the U.S. in 2005 in Quetta, Pakistan.Whether that message as Weinstein's own video released this week were intercepted by the company control of Islamist sites SITE Intelligence Group in Washington.

France's new first lady

She leaves the field. While Francois Hollande, the day before the election, his political home on the market makes its round tulle, she wanders around almost unnoticed. An elegant gray coat, white bears Valerie Trierweiler, a large umbrella in his hand. And as she goes to these last few hours before it becomes serious? "Happily," she says of course. She was happy to spend time with the people in Correze, although it will obviously abhaben all a part of their Francois. But this story, the journalist will have to get used anyway. In the future, her partner first heard the French - and they like a little bit with. As a woman on the side of the president she does not have any formal commitments. But because the French view their leader as a kind of elected king, they also want a queen. Trierweiler is accessible. She talks to this day, unencumbered by the marketers of Tulle. Hollande wants a "normal president" to be, and she works at the picture of a normal first lady.Even though this is hardly possible. The 47-year-old has already let you know prior to his election, that it is a little dizzy at the thought. And she stressed that she wants to practice their profession. For a journalist, initially specializing in political reporting, but this is difficult if not impossible. They themselves know best how the public will pull for them. A story like that is their for their editorial, the slap-heavy weekly magazine "Paris Match", a feeding frenzy. The research on such a story had Trierweiler ever brought together only with Hollande.Due to the need for admiration of his longtime girlfriend Segolene Royal met Trierweiler the couple 20 years ago. The former Royal Minister had invited the journalist shortly after the birth of their daughter to the hospital for a nice story. Hollande, and Trierweiler became friends during that time. A pair of them were in 2005. But the public was not at first. The official was further reported the dream couple Hollande-Royal, which has four children and the presidential candidacy rangelte 2007th When Royal was a candidate, they even spoke of an imminent wedding with Hollande, although he had moved away long ago.According to legend, a Parisian Royal have even offered him to abandon him for the sake of the presidential campaign, when he came back to her. It was not until the evening of her defeat by Nicolas Sarkozy, Royal was then announced that she had separated from Hollande. Soon after, showed itself with Trierweiler. You should have no illusions about how much the love of the Parisian socialists determined by the political cycle. Put back in their own career had Trierweiler and the policy-change in the literature department, as they met with Hollande. In addition, the twice-divorced mother of three sons sought a second job as a TV presenter. Their influence on Hollande but makes itself felt: The 57-year-old has been transformed over the past two years by the rounded "pudding" to stripped-down, smart statesman. And on election night, his face relaxed only when Trierweiler came to him in the party platform. The night before, when he had worked late in his constituency office in Tulle, he sent them off with his friend Bernard Combes. "There is no constituency office in the kitchen. So we have the restaurant," she said.

Al Qaeda kills 32 soldiers in Yemen

Armed Islamists killed Monday morning at 32 Yemeni soldiers during the assault on a military position in the south, a region where Al Qaeda control large areas of territory. Military spokesmen confirmed the attack, one of many that occur with increasing frequency since the president Abed Rabbo Mansur took office in February. The government has responded with air strikes and the United States repeatedly has used drones ( drones) to kill Islamist militants. The gunmen attacked the soldiers on the outskirts of the city of Zinjibar, the provincial capital of Abidjan, killing at least 32 soldiers and wounding dozens. An army spokesman said the Islamists captured several soldiers and seized weapons and ammunition. In a similar attack in March, militants killed a hundred soldiers in Zinjibar. The onslaught of Al Qaeda comes hours after a prominent leader of the organization died on Sunday during an attack with a drone. leader, Fahd al Qasaa, and his two bodyguards were killed when riding in a vehicle by the Yemeni region of Al RAFD. Members of the security forces in Yemen confirmed the death of the former leader of Al Qaeda in the country since 2009. Also known as Abu Hazifa the Yemeni, Al Qasaa was sentenced to ten years in prison for the attack in 2000 against the U.S. destroyer Cole that killed 17 sailors, and was among the 10 most wanted terrorists by the United States. The leader escape from prison in Yemen after a year. On Wednesday, another drone attacked a camp of Al Qaeda in Yemen, killing 13 suspected militants of the terrorist network, U.S. military sources confirmed. In April, the U.S. Army had also finished with the life of Muqbel Said al Omda, CFO of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and also accused of participating in the attack on the Cole . Omda had escaped from a Yemeni prison in 2006 and was also part of the list of most wanted terrorists by U.S. authorities. U.S. has intensified attacks with drones especially in Yemen, Somalia and the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan in its initiative to end al Qaeda cells in the different countries. The Obama administration officially recognized the existence of a secret CIA program on the use of such drones and have launched over 250 attacks in Pakistan, which resulted in the deaths of about 1,400 people- according to the count made ​​by the expert Peter Bergen . In the same week that marked the first anniversary of the death of the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, during a special operation estaodunidense Army.

Israel, Netanyahu wants elections on 4/9

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has now suggested to the government that the elections be deferred to September 4. If the proposal will be 'approved, the Knesset will begin today' the procedure of early dissolution of the legislature, that would only end in November 2013. Yesterday Netanyahu of the Likud had explained to Congress the reasons that led him to go to early elections, hoping'' would take place over 4 months.''