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Al Qaeda's Yemen branch has published a video purporting to show an American hostage, who identifies himself as Luke Somers, and saying he will "meet his inevitable fate," if unspecified demands are not met.
In the video, the man identified himself as Luke Somers and said he had been kidnapped well over a year ago.
Reuters is unable to independently verify the content of the video, which was posted on YouTube and social media late on Wednesday (December 3) and carried by SITE, an organisation that monitors militant statements.
Somers, a 33-year-old journalist, was kidnapped in Yemen's capital Sanaa in September 2013, joining several other foreigners including Westerners held by militant Sunni Muslim armed groups in the volatile Arabian peninsula country.
In the video, a member of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the militant network's Yemen arm, criticised the foreign policy of U.S. President Barack Obama which it
