Court hears US hostage’s emotional letter to father as IS trial continues
by David Smith in Alexandria, Virginia and agencies from on (#5XXFX)
Peter Kassig, who was later killed, described paralysis and hope and offered words of comfort to his family
An American hostage's harrowing story about captivity at the hands of the Islamic State militants who would kill him was recounted in court in Virginia on Wednesday.
A letter from the late Peter Kassig was read aloud during the terrorism trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, a 33-year-old former British citizen and alleged member of a kidnap-and-murder cell known to captives as the Beatles" because of their British accents.
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