Just a few simple things Al Qaeda wants in return for releasing American hostage Warren Weinstein.

• Lifting of the blockade on movement of people and trade between Egypt and Gaza.

• An end to bombing by the United States and its allies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and Gaza.

• The release of anyone arrested on charges of belonging to al Qaeda and the Taliban.

• The release of all prisoners in Guantanamo and American secret prisons and the closure of Guantanamo and the other prisons.

• The release of terrorists convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

• And the release of relatives of Osama bin Laden, the founder of al Qaeda who was killed in May in Pakistan.

Why do they even bother asking these things?

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