Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP) posted on Saturday a video message in which a Saudi diplomat, Abdullah Al-Khalidi, demanded the Saudi King Abdullah Ben Abdul-Aziz to save his life.
In a four-minute message, Al-Khalidi, who worked as the Saudi deputy consul in the Yemeni port city of Aden and was abducted in March, appealed to bring him back to his family, children and wife.
It is thought that Al-Khalidi is held in a region between Shabwa and Abyan in which al-Qaeda is engaged in fight with the Yemeni army.
Al-Khalidi spoke in the video about sectors and offices of the Saudi consulate in Aden, detailing its nature and activities.
He revealed that the consulate contains an intelligence office that is run by three Saudi officers, asserting that it operates to recruit agents who report to the consulate about Al-Qaeda's activities and its leaders.
He also made it clear that the consulate send reports to the US forces that raided Al-Qaeda with drones.
The Saudi diplomat is one of several foreign diplomats who are being held by Al-Qaeda in Abyan. It holds a Swiss teacher and a relief French worker.
Al-Qaeda demands to release Saudi detained women and other men who are charged with connection to Al-Qaeda.
Riyadh previously said that it will not respond to blackmailing of Al-Qaeda, retreating it was paralyzed inside the Saudi Arabia and most its leaders transferred to operate from Yemen.
Saudi Arabia had said it received a call from Al-Qaeda wanted operative, Mashaal Rasheed al-Shawdakhi, who claimed the abduction, indicating that al-Shawdakhi demanded the release of militants jailed in Saudi Arabia and a ransom payment in exchange for the diplomat.