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Kidnapped professors beg Trump to negotiate release in Taliban video
[Guardian] An American and an Australian professor who were kidnapped in Kabul five months ago have pleaded with US president-elect Donald Trump to help secure their release in a video released by the Taliban.The video, uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday and apparently filmed on 1 January, is the first public sign of life of the two teachers since their abduction. Kevin King, 60, an American, and Timothy John Weeks, 48, an Australian, were violently kidnapped on 7 August outside the campus of the American University of Afghanistan where they both taught. In the 13-minute video, the pair ‐ who are are visibly distraught and occasionally break into sobs ‐ beg the American government to negotiate with their captors. The Taliban appear to have demanded the release of several "soldiers" in exchange for the professors. "If we stay here for much longer, we will be killed. I don’t want to die here," Weeks says in the video. There was no indication of where the video had been filmed but it seemed timed to coincide with the current US presidential transition. Posted by: Besoeker 2017-01-12 |
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