Iraq group threatens to kill German woman, son

“We have warned them. Otherwise, you will not even see one corpse for these two agents,” said one of three masked gunmen who appeared standing behind the purported hostages.

A German passport seen in the video footage showed the surname of the female hostage as Kadhim, Geb Krause, while her first names were Hannflore Marianne, born in Teltow in 1945.

The blonde woman cried along with her dark-haired son who sat on the floor next to her while she made a lengthy appeal in German.

A written Arabic translation of her statement said that she was calling on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to save her life and that of her son by pulling out troops from Afghanistan.

“I am under threat. These people want to kill my son in front of me and then kill me if German troops do not withdraw,” the translation said.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier confirmed on February 12 that two German citizens had been missing in Iraq for a week and may have been abducted.