`` God the great and almighty granted us success to capture the Jewish American Warren Weinstein , '' al-Zawahiri said in the video posted Wednesday , according to the terror monitoring group SITE Intelligence . ` Ayman al-Zawahiri calls for the kidnapping of Westerners . The group has been blamed by U.S. officials and others in recent months for a string of attacks on Western targets including an attack last month that killed seven people at a restaurant popular with foreigners in Benghazi, Al-Zawahiri cites the kidnapping of Warren Weinstein as an example .
Ayman al-Zawahiri calls for the kidnapping of Westerners . The group has been blamed by U.S. officials and others in recent months for a string of attacks on Western targets including an attack last month that killed seven people at a restaurant popular with foreigners in Benghazi, Al-Zawahiri cites the kidnapping of Warren Weinstein as an example .