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EARLY LIFE
- Mueller was a native of Prescott, Arizona. After graduating from Tri-City College Prep High School in 2007, she attended Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.
- Mueller supported causes that supported humanitarian aid, human rights, youth mentorship, and environmental activism.
ACTIVIST
- Her involvement in human rights activism and humanitarian aid included working in India with Tibetan refugees.
- Her work in the Middle East included volunteering for the pro-Palestinian activist group the International Solidarity Movement and helping African refugees in Israel.
- Other humanitarian and activist causes Mueller was involved in at home and abroad were Vrindavan Food For Life, which provides free food, education, and medical care for those in need;and during college, Food Not Bombs.
ABDUCTION
- Mueller started working in southern Turkey in December 2012, where she was assisting Syrian refugees.
- On August 3, 2013, she travelled to the northern Syrian city of Aleppo The following day, Doctors Without Borders staff tried to drive Mueller to a bus station so that she could travel back to Turkey.
- However, the car was ambushed, and both Mueller and the Syrian man were abducted by ISIS.
RESCUE ATTEMPT
- The U.S. military and Mueller’s family attempted several times to rescue Mueller.In July 2014, U.S. special operations forces (from Delta Force and Navy SEAL Team Six) raided an abandoned oil refinery.
- In the summer 2014, as other options were exhausted, Mueller’s parents asked President Obama in a letter to consider trading Mueller for Aafia Siddiqui, a convicted terrorist serving 86 years in federal prison.
- In August 2015, the New York Times reported that Mueller had been forced into marriage to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who raped her repeatedly. She had also been tortured.
DEATH
- A media account affiliated with ISIS released a statement on February 6, 2015, claiming that a female American hostage held by the group was killed by one of around a dozen Jordanian airstrikes in Raqqa.
- Other reports claimed Mueller was killed in an American airstrike.Mueller had been a hostage of ISIL for 18 months.
- On February 10, 2015, Mueller’s family announced ISIS had confirmed her death to them in an e-mail, with three photographs of her dead body, bruised on the face and wearing a black hijab.
DEATH
- The family of murdered Isis hostage Kayla Mueller ay they are “grateful” for the raid that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic caliphate who repeatedly raped the Arizona native after her kidnapping in 2013.
- The operation, which was named after Mueller, took place over the weekend, and was announced by Donald Trump on Sunday morning during a nationally broadcast statement.
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