Missing ex-FBI agent in hostage video: 'Help me'

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The family of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished years ago in Iran, issued a plea to his kidnappers Friday and, for the first time, released a hostage video they received from his unidentified captors.

The video message released on the Levinson family's website publicly transformed the mysterious disappearance into an international hostage standoff. Despite a lengthy investigation, however, the U.S. government has no evidence of who is holding the 63-year-old father of seven.

"Please tell us your demands so we can work together to bring my father home safely," says Levinson's son David, seated beside his mother, Christine.

The video plea represents a sharp change in strategy in a case that, for years, the United States treated as a diplomatic issue rather than a hostage situation. Christine Levinson, who lives in Coral Springs, Fla., has issued many public statements over the years, but she typically directed them to her missing husband or to the government of Iran.

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[FMH]

I hope he returns back home safely. But if Irani government is involved, and since it has been years he has been missing, it may be quite unlikely. :cry:

But I hope I'm dead wrong.

[Hum]

I don't see any advantage for Iran to keep holding him.

[Crisp]

I don't see any advantage for Iraqn to keep holding him.

Aliens?