Canadian and his wife, hostages in Afghanistan, plead for lives in video
OTTAWA — A newly released video shows a Canadian man and his American wife, held captive in Afghanistan for almost four years, pleading for government help to save their lives.
In the video, Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman sombrely warn they will be killed by their captors unless Kabul abandons its policy of executing captured prisoners.
They call on Canada and the United States to pressure Afghanistan into changing its policy, saying their kidnappers are terrified of being executed by the state.
The video, uploaded to YouTube, came to public attention through the Maryland-based Site Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist activity online.