![]() In his latest statement, Cantlie makes no reference to recent events and it is not clear when the footage was filmed. ![]() “We feel we are caught in the middle between you and the US government, and we are being punished.”Ĭantlie’s sister Jessica Cantlie, has previously appealed for there to be “direct contact” with the militants holding him. Everyone has buried their heads in the sand. One message, which Cantlie dates to July 17 this year, reads: “We have begged them so many times already. He also reads from emails allegedly exchanged between IS and the families of American captives who complained about the US government’s refusal to negotiate their loved ones’ release. ![]() “Some of us who tried to escape were waterboarded by our captors, as Muslim prisoners are waterboarded by their American captors.” In the apparently scripted footage, which lasts six and a half minutes, he says: “Now, unless we tried something stupid like escaping or doing something we shouldn’t, we were treated well by the Islamic State. Its release comes just days after his father, Paul Cantlie, 80, died from complications following pneumonia.Īs in previous instalments, Cantlie can be seen delivering his message under duress from behind a desk, wearing an orange jumpsuit and criticising the British and US governments.
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