On Aug. 23, her parents released a copy of an unpublished letter she wrote while in captivity, per the Daily Mail, which further explained her selfless dedication to others.
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A fellow captive said Kayla defended her Christian faith when one terrorist said that she had converted to Islam.
The Mueller’s friction with the feds goes back years, actually.
Marsha and Carl Mueller have also expressed their disappointment with DWB for the way they handled the situation. “I’ve been here too long and I’ve been very sick and it’s it’s very terrifying here.”, said the late aid-worker.
She was held hostage for 18 months, kept as a sex slave in a dungeon, until she died past year.
The video, provided by the Mueller family to ABC News for Friday’s “20/20” broadcast of “The Girl Left Behind”, is the only known image of Kayla Mueller in ISIS captivity and had never been shown publicly before now. He said: “You just go into nearly a catatonic state, I think”.
His daughter was one of the first hostages kidnapped by the terrorist network.
She had begged him to let her tag along because she wanted to do relief work in the war-ravaged country. “It was very clear that all of us were impressed by the strength that she showed in front of us”.
Negotiations started 10 months after her capture on 23 May 2014 once MSF (known in the USA as Doctors Without Borders) handed over an Isis email address, two months after they had received it from some of their workers who had been freed from captivity. He said MSF were not hostage negotiators and it would have put their own staff and work at risk.
“They need to take forceful action against these people”, he said.
But the United States has a policy against paying ransoms to terrorist groups, who often kidnap Westerners to extort money they use to fund their operations. Almost a week later the Mueller family received a glimmer of hope of life in a form of an audio clip of Kayla’s voice. They had no voice.
“Mom and Dad, I still am remaining healthy”. You should have already received the three answers to the proof life questions you provided. ISIS demanded either the release of Dr. Afia Siddiqui or a ransom of 5 million euros.
Aafia Siddiqui is a Pakistani neuroscientist turned al-Qaeda courier and financier who was convicted for attempted murder of a United States national and is serving 86 years behind bars in Texas.
Carl Mueller told The Arizona Republic last June the USA needed to take military action against ISIS, and that there seemed to be no repercussions for hurting Americans. “Those detaining me are demanding an exchange of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s release for my release”, she said in reference to a Pakistani woman in US prison.
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The proof-of-life video was meant to serve a few basic purposes, according to Chris Voss, retired Federal Bureau of Investigation chief hostage negotiator, who examined the Kayla tape.
