From al-AP:

An insurgent group in Iraq posted a video showing a kidnapped German woman and son weeping and pleading for help as the group gave Germany 10 more days to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan or else the hostages would be killed. In the video, Hannelore Marianne Krause, and her adult son, Sinan, were sitting on the floor in front of a green backdrop. Krause, 61, wearing a headscarf and speaking in German, begged her two other children, who live in Germany, to “do anything” to save her and Sinan. “You know that the demands are that the German army leave Afghanistan or else we will be killed, me and your brother,” she said, according to Arabic subtitles. “You could go to the newspapers or organize demonstrations. You could take any steps in any way at all to help us.”