Kayla Jean Mueller was an American human rights activist and humanitarian aid worker from Prescott, Arizona, United States.
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Kayla Mueller was taken captive in August 2013 in Aleppo, Syria, after leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital.
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Kayla Mueller started working in southern Turkey in December 2012, where she was assisting Syrian refugees.
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Doctors Without Borders staff were "flabbergasted" at Kayla Mueller's arrival, fearing for her safety, as Syria was dangerous for international aid workers amid a civil war.
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The US military and Kayla Mueller's family attempted to rescue Kayla Mueller several times, devoting considerable resources to the search.
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Kayla Mueller was concerned for the safety of others, even intentionally passing up an escape attempt to give other women a better chance at freedom.
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On February 10,2015, Kayla 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.
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In November 2019, the New York Times reported that Kayla Mueller may have been executed on the orders of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to reports from the wife of a close associate of his.
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Later, in an interview on The Today Show, Carl Kayla Mueller expressed his frustration with the Obama administration over the way it conducted negotiations with their daughter's captors, and their policy of not paying ransom money for hostages.
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Kayla Mueller was a member of an ecumenical Christian campus ministry, United Christian Ministries, which held ties to the Presbyterian Church.
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Kayla Mueller did that in a very profound and tangible way, and my hope is that she inspires others to alleviate suffering in the world and in their own communities.
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The Pentagon declined to investigate whether Kayla Mueller was killed by the coalition airstrike.
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In October 2015, Kayla Mueller became the first person to be posthumously inducted into Northern Arizona University's college of Social and Behavioral Sciences Hall of Fame.
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Kayla Mueller was recognized as an outstanding alumna for her humanitarian aid work.
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The military operation that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on October 27,2019, was code-named after Kayla Mueller, according to several sources.
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Several aspects of Kayla Mueller's life were mentioned, including her college career, her devotion to humanitarian aid and personal faith, as well as her capture, torture and eventual death at the hands of ISIS terrorists.
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Carl and Marsha Kayla Mueller spoke at the 2020 Republican National Convention, where they described their daughter's ordeal and praised the Trump administration's coordination of the raid that led to the killing of al-Baghdadi.