Missing American in Iran believed alive
19:58 - 12 December 2011
Kurdpa - The family of an American man reportedly being held hostage in Iran is asking for help bringing him home. Bob Levinson\'s family has released a video of him they received a year ago.
In the video, a gaunt and bearded Robert Levinson pleads for help. “I\'ve been held here for 3 and a half years. I am not in very good health. I am running very quickly out of diabetes medicine. I have been treated well, but I need the help of the United States government to answer the requests of the group that has held me for 3 and a half years.”
“When I saw it I was very sad to see him looking the way he does. However, at the same time I was happy to learn that he was alive,” said Christine Levinson, Robert’s wife.
Levinson, his wife of 37 years, mother of their seven children, tells CNN the family received the video a year ago and finally decided to post it on their family website, along with a new plea to release him.
“We need to know what you want our family to do so our father can come home safely. We will do everything within our power to bring him home,” said Levinson’s son, David.
Who sent it? Who’s holding him? Christine Levinson still doesn’t know.
“Since we received that video, we tried to get in touch with the group that is holding Bob. Unfortunately, we have not received any response from them and we feel that this is a way to try and reach them with our plea and the video to get them to let us know what the family needs to do to get Bob home alive and quickly,” said Christine.
63-year-old Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent turned private investigator disappeared in March 2007 from Kish Island, Iran, where it is believed he was investigating cigarette smuggling. For years, there were almost no leads.
Iran’s government claimed it was not holding him and did not know where he was.
Source - CNN
In the video, a gaunt and bearded Robert Levinson pleads for help. “I\'ve been held here for 3 and a half years. I am not in very good health. I am running very quickly out of diabetes medicine. I have been treated well, but I need the help of the United States government to answer the requests of the group that has held me for 3 and a half years.”
“When I saw it I was very sad to see him looking the way he does. However, at the same time I was happy to learn that he was alive,” said Christine Levinson, Robert’s wife.
Levinson, his wife of 37 years, mother of their seven children, tells CNN the family received the video a year ago and finally decided to post it on their family website, along with a new plea to release him.
“We need to know what you want our family to do so our father can come home safely. We will do everything within our power to bring him home,” said Levinson’s son, David.
Who sent it? Who’s holding him? Christine Levinson still doesn’t know.
“Since we received that video, we tried to get in touch with the group that is holding Bob. Unfortunately, we have not received any response from them and we feel that this is a way to try and reach them with our plea and the video to get them to let us know what the family needs to do to get Bob home alive and quickly,” said Christine.
63-year-old Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent turned private investigator disappeared in March 2007 from Kish Island, Iran, where it is believed he was investigating cigarette smuggling. For years, there were almost no leads.
Iran’s government claimed it was not holding him and did not know where he was.
Source - CNN
