The nightmare continued Monday for a Pacifica woman after an Al-Jazeera television broadcast showed a videotape of her kidnapped brother pleading for his life, and his captors said the man had been taken to the place where he would be killed if the Philippines fails to meet their demands.
The militants said the Philippines had until 3 p.m. EDT Monday to agree to pull the country's small peacekeeping force out of Iraq by July 20 or Angelo dela Cruz, 46, would be killed.
Cruz's sister, Lydia Ghazzawi of Pacifica, Calif., began to sob when she learned about the new deadline. She had thought her brother's captors had extended the deadline until Tuesday.
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