The U.S. State Department is evaluating a video released by the Taliban showing a married American woman and Canadian man saying that their Taliban captors will kill them and their children unless the government of Afghanistan halts the execution of Taliban prisoners. A counterterrorism analyst studying the video said Coleman and Boyle appeared “out of it”. Mujahid said Boyle and Coleman and their two children remained in captivity but in good health. A video clip of the two shared SITE Intelligence group showed the couple beg for their lives, urging the Afghanistan government to stop execution of Taliban prisoners.
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She also addressed her family, asking them to try to persuade the U.S.to get involved.
Kirby said the United States was “regularly engaged with the governments of both Afghanistan and Pakistan at the highest levels to emphasize our commitment to seeing our citizens return safely to their families”.
Caitlan Coleman is seen here in the undated family photo.
The United States said Tuesday it was still examining the video.
The Express Tribune quoted media reports as suggesting that Baseer Aziz, spokesperson for the office of attorney general has confirmed that a primary court awarded death sentence to Anas.
Boyle, 33, from Toronto, was previously married to a woman named Zaynab Khadr, who was the older sister of Omar Khader, a Canadian national imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for 10 years after being accused of fighting against U.S. troops in Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2002. Bowe Bergdahl, a prisoner of the Haqqanis for five years. The fusion cell was set up after family members of hostages who were killed by ISIS said that the USA government failed to communicate with them and didn’t work as a whole to bring their loved ones home. Senior counterterrorism officials tell ABC News that Coleman is being held as a hostage against her will and efforts have been made to secure freedom for the young mom and her kids.
Neither of the children have appeared in videos released by The Taliban.
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“Our captors are terrified of the thought of their own mortality approaching, and are saying that they will take reprisals on our family”, Boyle says in the new video.
