A Swedish aid worker who was held hostage in northern relived some of her darkest moments Thursday as she testified against one of her captors, El Shafee Elsheikh, a former British national who is accused of leading a kidnapping plot that resulted in the deaths of four Americans. Nothing in her captivity nightmare horrified Frida Saide more than the day she was released in March 2014, when she pleaded with her captors to release Kayla Mueller, a 26-year-old American with whom she had shared a room for weeks.Taking the stand at a federal courtroom in Alexandria, , Saide said the hostage-takers, a notoriously sadistic bunch captives dubbed the '' because of their British accents, told her she and her companions would need to raise the ransom to free Mueller.
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