Caitlin had been with child in 2012 when the couple had been kidnapped.
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In the clip, Caitlan Coleman and her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, make likely coerced statements begging their own governments to pressure Afghanistan into stopping its killings of captured Taliban terrorists.
State Department spokesman John Kirby told AP on Tuesday the video is being “examined for its validity”.
The family of a pregnant American woman who went missing in Afghanistan in late 2012 with her Canadian husband received two videos a year ago in which the couple asked the US government to help free them and their child from Taliban captors, The Associated Press has learned. “Either by the Afghan government or Canada, somehow”.
“Because of their fear they are willing to kill us, willing to kill women, to kill children, to kill whomever, in order to get these policies reversed or take revenge”.
Coleman likewise said that their captors plan to kill her and her family unless their demands are met.
Coleman was pregnant when she was captured, and gave birth while in captivity.
The couple was seized in October, 2012 during a trip that took them to several central Asian countries. “Please grant them an opportunity to continue their lives with us, and bring peace to their families”.
The Haqqani network may be trying to secure a prisoner swap similar to the Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl case, a senior source in the Taliban’s Qatar office told The Daily Beast.
In the new video posted online by jihadists, Coleman and Boyle each speak in turn, slowly and apparently from a script prepared by their captors.
Kirby says the USA government is concerned about the couple’s welfare and urged “their immediate release on humanitarian grounds”.
Anas Haqqani, whose execution sentence prompted the release of the new video, was captured by USA authorities in 2014 while traveling through Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Coleman’s parents released a video in late June pleading with her captors for her family’s safe release.
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Another American is believed to be held by the Haqqani network, but the person’s identity has not been made public.
