numerology for Warren Weinstein

December 1st, 2011

The leader of Al Qaeda said Thursday that the terrorist group was holding a veteran American aid worker kidnapped inPakistan in August and demanded the end of airstrikes on militants and the release of prisoners held in the West in return for his freedom.

The video message from the leader,Ayman al-Zawahri, was the group’s first claim to be holding the hostage, Warren Weinstein.

Mr. Weinstein, 70, who has lived in Pakistan for seven years, was taken at gunpoint from his home in the eastern city of Lahore on Aug. 13. The police said at the time that it was unclear whether he had been kidnapped by militants or by criminals seeking a ransom.

Mr. Zawahri, who took over the leadership of Al Qaeda after the killing in May of Osama bin Laden, mentioned Mr. Weinstein in a half-hour video released to militant forums on the Web, the eighth in a series of talks responding to events in Mr. Zawahri’s native Egypt. He drew an analogy with Israel’s release of more than 1,000Palestinian prisoners in return for the release by Hamas of a captured Israel soldier, Gilad Shalit.

Addressing imprisoned Qaeda and Taliban members, Mr. Zawahri said: “In order to release you, Allah the great and almighty guided us to capture the American Jew Warren Weinstein,” whom he called “neck-deep in American aid to Pakistan since the 1970s,” according to a translation by the Site Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist messages.

In return for Mr. Weinstein’s release, he demanded free movement of people and goods between Egypt and Gaza; the end of bombing by the United States and its allies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and Gaza; the emptying of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; and the release of a half-dozen prominent Qaeda prisoners held in the West.

American officials said the Qaeda assertion that it was holding Mr. Weinstein was plausible. “It’s entirely possible that Al Qaeda or one of its militant allies may be holding Mr. Weinstein and the statement by Zawahri supports this conclusion,” said an American official who was permitted to discuss the case only on condition of anonymity. He added: “The U.S. government is following every lead to help find Mr. Weinstein.”

Documents captured from Bin Laden’s house by the Navy Seal team that killed him showed Qaeda leaders were discussing kidnapping “as a means of striking from their weakened state,” the official said. Years of missile strikes from drone aircraft have killed most of Al Qaeda’s commanders, including Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, a Libyan considered the group’s top operational planner, who Mr. Zawahri confirmed was killed with his son in a strike on Aug. 23 in North Waziristan in Pakistan’s tribal area.

After his disappearance, Mr. Weinstein’s family issued an appeal to his captors to make sure he got medication for asthma and a heart condition. In a statement, the family asked whoever was holding him to contact them, saying they were “devastated by his disappearance” and “don’t understand why anyone would take him.”

from:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/world/asia/leader-says-qaeda-holds-abducted-american-aid-worker.html

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using the number/letter grid:
1      2      3       4       5       6      7      8      9
A      B     C       D       E       F      G      H      I
J      K      L      M      N       O      P      Q      R
S      T      U      V      W      X      Y      Z

 

Where:

A = 1              J = 1              S = 1

B = 2              K = 2             T = 2

C = 3              L = 3             U = 3

D = 4              M = 4            V = 4

E = 5              N = 5            W = 5

F = 6              O = 6             X = 6

G = 7              P = 7             Y = 7

H = 8              Q = 8             Z = 8

I = 9               R = 9

 

 

Warren Weinstein

519955 559512595          82

 

his path of destiny = 82 = Jumping to conclusions.

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numerology for Warren Weinstein

Pakistani police officers gather at the entry gate of the house of an abducted American citizen in Lahore, Pakistan on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011.

 

Gunmen kidnapped an American development expert after tricking his guards and breaking into his house in Pakistan on Saturday, a brazen raid that alarmed aid workers, diplomats and other foreigners who already tread carefully in this country rife with Islamic militancy and anti-U.S. sentiment.

The U.S. Embassy identified the victim as Warren Weinstein. Weinstein is the Pakistan country director for J.E. Austin Associates, a development contractor that has received millions of dollars from the aid arm of the U.S. government, according to a profile on LinkedIn, a networking website.

Police declined to speculate on the motive, and no group immediately claimed responsibility. But kidnappings for ransom are common in Pakistan, with foreigners being occasional targets. Criminal gangs are suspected in most abductions, but Islamic militants, are believed to also use the tactic to raise money.

Lahore has seen a number of militant attacks, and the Punjab region where it is located is home to several of Pakistan’s top militant networks, some of which are suspected of ties to Pakistani intelligence.

Police said the American, believed to be in his 60s, had returned to his home in the eastern city of Lahore the previous night from the capital, Islamabad. He had told his staff that would be wrapping up his latest project and moving out of Pakistan by Monday, police officer Tajammal Hussain said.

According to Pakistani police, two of the kidnappers showed up at Weinstein’s house Saturday and told the guards inside the gate of the walled compound that they wanted to give them food, an act of sharing common during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which started early this month.

The guards opened the gate, and five other men suddenly appeared. The armed assailants overpowered the guards and stormed into the house. Some gunmen are believed to have entered through the back. They snatched the American from his bedroom but took nothing else.

Security forces were checking vehicles in and around Lahore in hopes of finding Weinstein, said Ghulam Mahmood Dogar, a top police official.

In Washington, the State Department said it was in touch with Weinstein’s family and that U.S. officials in Pakistan were working with local authorities on the case. Spokeswoman Joanne Moore would not comment further, citing privacy concerns.

Weinstein headed a program trying to strengthen the competitiveness of Pakistani industries, according to the biographical section of his company’s website, which was taken down late Saturday. The LinkedIn profile says Weinstein has been in Pakistan for seven years.

Calls to the company headquarters in Virginia were not immediately answered, but its website describes Weinstein as a development expert with 25 years experience and a Ph.D. in international law and economics.

“He’s a short, funny man with a quick wit,” said Raza Rumi, a Pakistani columnist who said the American could speak a fair amount of Urdu. “He’s a very laid-back guy, not too worried about security issues, not really paranoid at all.”

The audacious nature of Saturday’s abduction raised the likelihood that diplomatic missions, aid groups and contracting companies would further tighten security. Already, many groups severely restrict where their international staff can travel because of kidnapping fears.

The security concerns heavily impact U.S. aid programs and have served to slow down the disbursement of billions of dollars in promised funds because they limit where American diplomats are allowed to go and what projects can be undertaken safely.

Americans in Pakistan are considered especially at risk because militants oppose Islamabad’s alliance with Washington and the war in Afghanistan. The unilateral U.S. raid that killed al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden on May 2 in northwest Pakistan only added to tensions between the two countries.

“They’ve become very, very brazen,” Zahid Elahi, managing director in Pakistan for Development Alternatives Inc., another U.S.-based contracting firm, said of the kidnappers. “We just need to get our heads together because it’s only just happened.”

He said he would definitely advise international colleagues to lay low in the coming days.

A Western aid worker said the raid on Weinstein’s home is “a new wrinkle.” He called it especially worrying because companies such as J.E. Austin Associates tend to spend a great deal on security for their staff, even more than many humanitarian groups.

“They really, really are risk averse,” the aid worker said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of security concerns.

Several other foreigners have been abducted in Pakistan in recent years.

John Solecki, an American with the U.N.’s refugee agency in southwest Baluchistan, was held captive by ethnic Baluchi separatists for more than two months in early 2009. A 5-year-old British boy, Sahil Saeed Naqqash, was kidnapped for two weeks from his grandparents’ house in central Pakistan in March 2010.

The Pakistani Taliban claim to be holding a Swiss man and woman kidnapped earlier this summer from Baluchistan. The militant group, which is based in the northwest tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, says it will free the pair if the U.S. releases a Pakistani woman convicted of trying to kill Americans.

The U.S. State Department recently issued a travel warning for its citizens saying that American diplomats are facing increased harassment and they, along with aid workers and journalists, have been falsely identified as spies in the local media.

U.S. citizens also have come under greater scrutiny by the Pakistani government this year, especially since January, when an American CIA contractor shot to death two Pakistanis he said were trying to rob him in Lahore.

American lawmakers and officials have made a slew of trips in recent weeks to try to maintain the relationship with Islamabad.

On Saturday, U.S. Sen. John McCain arrived in Islamabad and met with top officials including Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari. In statements afterward, Gilani and Zardari said Pakistan desires an enduring, multidimensional partnership with the United States.

from:  http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=14296412

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using the number/letter grid:

 
1      2      3       4       5       6      7      8      9
A      B     C       D       E       F      G      H      I
J      K      L      M      N       O      P      Q      R 
S      T      U      V      W      X      Y      Z
 

Where:

A = 1              J = 1              S = 1

B = 2              K = 2             T = 2

C = 3              L = 3             U = 3

D = 4              M = 4            V = 4

E = 5              N = 5            W = 5

F = 6              O = 6             X = 6

G = 7              P = 7             Y = 7

H = 8              Q = 8             Z = 8

I = 9               R = 9

 

Warren Weinstein

519955 559512595        80

 

his path of destiny = 80 = Dealing with the aftermath.

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