Boyfriend of US woman killed by IS tried to free her
Kayla Mueller was in a detention cell in Syria, face to face with her boyfriend who was posing as her husband. Had she told her captors she was married to Omar Alkhani, she might have been freed from the hands of Islamic State militants, he said. Instead, she denied being his wife.
Her death was confirmed last week by the US government and Mueller's family. In the days since, hundreds of people have gathered to honor her in her home state of Arizona.
Alkhani had persuaded a string of people to let him plead for her release, but he left empty-handed. He said he saw Mueller's face for just a few seconds when guards uncovered it to show it.
