Accidentally kills her instructor, learning to fire a usi submachine gun. Situation could be getting worse. We begin tonight with a painful plea from the mother of an american journalist held by the Islamic State group. Shirley sotloff released this desperate video today, begging the groups leader, abu bakr albaghdadi, to let her son go. She addresses him as caliph. Roxana saberi has more. I am Shirley Sotloff. My son stephen is in your hands. Reporter in this emotional plea, Shirley Sotloff addresses the leader by his preferred title. Asking him to let him to come home. You as the caliph can grant amnesty. I ask you to please release my son. Stephen is a journalist, who covered the suffering of muslims at the hand of tirants. The sotloffs kept his captivity secret. They thought if they publicized his case his captors in the Islamic State group would kill him. Last tuesday the Group Released a video showing the execution of another american journalist, james foley and threatened to kil
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