{"id":42112,"date":"2014-08-26T17:19:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T17:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=42112"},"modified":"2014-08-26T17:19:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T17:19:38","slug":"isis-demand-6-6million-ransom-for-american-woman-held-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=42112","title":{"rendered":"ISIS demand $6.6million ransom for American woman held hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 26-year-old aid worker who was kidnapped from Syria last year has been confirmed as the third hostage held captive by the Islamic State (aka ISIS).<\/span><\/p>\n

The terror-group has demanded a $6.6million ransom for the woman, as well as the release of imprisoned neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, ABC News reports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The hostage’s family has asked for her name not to be released. \u00a0She is the third of at least four hostages held by ISIS, including executed photojournalist James Foley.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The hsotage’s name has not been released, at the request of her family. The group has also threatened to execute American journalist Steven Sotloff (pictured)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

News of the ransom comes just a week after the group beheaded Foley in a savage propaganda video posted online.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of the video, the group threatened to kill another hostage, journalist Steven Sotloff, next.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ransom was revealed Monday, at a press conference held on behalf of Siddiqui’s family, who are trying to distance themselves from ISIS.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was also confirmed through a close friend of the unidentified hostage’s family. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The group previously asked for the released of Siddiqui when they sent Foley’s family a $132million ransom request before his execution.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Siddiqui, an MIT-trained neuroscientist, was convicted in 2010 of trying to kill U.S. officials. Authorities believe she may have also been planning to construction dirty bombs to be used in terrorist attacks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Her family has released a statement saying they have no connections to ISIS and that ‘associating Aafia’s name with acts of violence is against everything we are struggling for’.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘While we deeply appreciate the sincere feelings of those who, like us, wish to see the freedom of our beloved Aafia, we cannot agree with a “by any means necessary” approach to Aafia\u2019s freedom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Nor can we accept that someone else\u2019s daughter or sister suffer like Aafia is suffering,’ the letter says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Foley’s ransom was not paid because the U.S. and Britain do not negotiate with terrorists<\/span><\/p>\n

ISIS has taken hostage several other Western Europeans, some of which were able to secure release when their respective countries paid the ransoms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Collecting ransoms is the main way terrorist organizations fund their activities, and a New York Times report revealed that Al Qaeda (which has distanced themselves from ISIS) collected an estimated $125million in ransoms from European governments in the last five years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A 26-year-old aid worker who was kidnapped from Syria last year has been confirmed as the third hostage held captive by the Islamic State (aka ISIS). The terror-group has demanded a $6.6million ransom for the woman, as well as the release of imprisoned neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, ABC News reports.\u00a0 The hostage’s family has asked for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":42113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-42112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}