The same terrorist group that brutally beheaded James Foley is demanding $6.6 million for the release of another American hostage, sources say.
The Islamic State (ISIS) said it kidnapped the unidentified 26-year-old American woman last year while she was on a humanitarian mission in Syria. The fighters said they will free her only if the U.S. government forks over the multi-million dollar ransom, ABC News reported.
Her family has requested she not be identified.
In addition to the ransom, the terrorists have also demanded the U.S. free a prisoner of its own: Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist convicted of attempted murder.
Siddiqui immigrated to the U.S. in 1990 and was indicted on the attempted murder charges in 2008 after she tried to kill two U.S. officials. The 42-year-old MIT-trained scientist has been held in a Texas prison ever since her 2010 conviction.
The 26-year-old humanitarian worker is one of at least four Americans ISIS have captured.
An ISIS fighter executed American journalist James Foley in a grisly video that surfaced last week. The terrorists demanded a ridiculous $132 million from the 40-year-old's family and his employer before they beheaded him. Separately, the group had asked the U.S. government for $100 million for his release.
The group has threated to kill another American reporter, Steven Sotloff, next. The 31-year-old, whose work has appeared in TIME magazine, was kidnapped in Syria in 2013.
The identity of the fourth ISIS-held hostage is unknown.
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