Kidnapped Christian Doctor in Iraq Freed in Critical Condition

Compass Direct News reports that Islamic kidnappers inKirkuk last week dumped a Christian doctor in critical condition in front of a mosque after 29 days of torture and threats. Thanks to his 23-year-old daughter's negotiations with the terrorists, 55-year-old Sameer Gorgees Youssif was freed but with wounds, hematomas and bruises covering his body. The doctor's daughter, who requested her name be withheld, said that for two weeks the abductors insisted on $500,000, and then dropped the amount to $300,000. The terrorists found phone numbers of friends on the doctor's mobile phone and called them, instructing them to tell his family that if they did not produce the money they would kill the doctor. In the end, the abductors lowered the demand to $100,000. "They were threatening us all the time, and we were living in hell," his daughter said. "God was our only hope."