Yemen - A Hostage Makes a Plea to Saudi Arabia - NYTimes.com Militants with Al Qaeda in Yemen on Monday posted online a new video of a kidnapped Saudi diplomat appealing to the kingdom's rulers to grant his captors" demands and save his life. The speaker identified himself as Abdullah Mohammed Khalifa al-Khaldi, the deputy Saudi consul in the Yemeni port city of Aden, who was kidnapped in March. Mr. Khaldi said that Al Qaeda would release him if Saudi Arabia freed detained female militants. Also on Monday, a bomb hidden under the driver's seat of a car killed a senior Yemeni intelligence officer, Lt. Col. Mohammed al-Qudami, in Sana, the capital, a security official said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.