“Radha Sterling [sic] could not have planned anything because she knew about the Latifa escape only from March 2, 2018,” he wrote.

Then, Stirling said, Latifa phoned her from the boat in the middle of the ambush, saying she feared for her life and “was hearing gunshots.”

They’ve mounted an extraordinarily slick—and convincing—PR campaign ostensibly aimed at rescuing her.