Mother of Islamic State captive tweets letter to terror group's leader
'My husband and I are on our own, with no help from the government'
The mother of Islamic State captive Abdul-Rahman Kassig is trying to reach to the leader of the terror group, hoping he'll spare her son.
On Wednesday, Paula Kassig tweeted a message addressed to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State.
"I am trying to get in touch with the Islamic State about my son's fate," Kassig wrote. "My husband and I are on our own, with no help from the government. We would like to talk with you. How can we reach you?"
She sent copies of the message to the purported accounts of other Islamic State members, including @PaladinOfJihad and @FethiMehmet.
A Letter from Abdul-Rahman Kassig's Mother to IS Caliph Al Baghdadi pic.twitter.com/QUXTXluVnY
— Paula Kassig (@PaulaKassig) October 8, 2014
Her plea comes less than a week after the militant group released a video threatening to kill her 26-year-old son, who changed his name from Peter Kassig after converting to Islam. According to his family, he was captured in October 2013 while he was in Syria as a humanitarian aid worker.
The video, released Saturday, showed the apparent beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning.
On Wednesday, Paula Kassig and her husband were joined by students at a prayer vigil at Butler University, their son's alma mater.
In a letter sent to his parents in June, Kassig, a former U.S. Army Ranger, wrote that he was "obviously pretty scared to die, but the hardest part is not knowing, wondering, hoping, and wondering if I should even hope at all."
