Vancouver woman kidnapped in Pakistan pleads for life on video. Canadian Khadija Abdul Qahaar, formerly known as Beverly Giesbrecht had been kidnapped in Pakistan in November and a video depicting her pleading for her life has been released. She is expected to be beheaded by the end of March if the Taliban kidnappers do not receive a ransom of $2 million. The video shows her crying as she says her

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time is very short and my life is going to end. I'm going to be killed, as you can see. I need some kind, someone to help me, the Pakistani government and my own country and somebody must move now, because my life is going to be over. I want to go home. So, these people are serious. Please help me.

Ms. Qahaar is the owner and publisher of a controversial pro-Islamic web magazine called Jihad Unspun which has been criticized by the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, which flagged it as "a Canadian pro-terrorist website". She had been visiting the tribal regions near the Afghan/Pakistan border to collect material for a documentary for the Al-Jazeera network when she was kidnapped.

Poor woman, I wonder how she feels now, after converting to this religion and then posting a controversial website and then getting screwed over by the supposed people she supports, the irony is through the roof on this one.

I must also say to anyone even having an inkling to wish to travel to Pakistan or Afghanistan, if you do so, then you are a fool. This may happen to you and if it does, it is your own fault.

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