WASHINGTON — The State Department said Tuesday it is evaluating a video released by the Afghan Taliban showing a Canadian man and his American wife warning that their Afghan captors will kill them and their children unless the Kabul government ends its executions of Taliban prisoners. In a statement Tuesday, Global Affairs Canada spokesman Michael O’Shaughnessy said the government was aware of the latest video. RelatedIn 2013, the couple appeared in two videos asking the U.S. government to free them from the Taliban. In July, Jim Coleman, speaking to the online news service Circa News, issued a plea to top Taliban commanders to be “kind and merciful” and let the couple go. “As a man, father and now grandfather, I am asking you to show mercy and release my daughter, her husband, and our beautiful grandchildren,” Jim Coleman said.

Source: National Post August 31, 2016 15:11 UTC