When the sisters had been shocked at their captors' lifestyle and their apparent inability to survive on anything that they hadn't killed or stolen, their Mohave family even gave them their own plot of land to grow crops.
The AP said it could not independently confirm that the video was made by the kidnappers. But it reported that some parents said on social media that they recognized their children in the video.
According to an initial police report, Michelle Knight, who was abducted in 2002, said she had suffered at least five miscarriages in captivity after her alleged abductor Ariel Castro had intentionally starved and beaten her.
The members of the band Delorean were phoned in their hotel by someone posing as a policeman and told to move to a different hotel where the kidnappers were.
The minister said the kidnappers demanded her resignation after she suspended payments to fuel marketers following reports that billions of dollars were being lost in a scam.
But the Israeli military said intelligence assessments and forensic analysis of the bodies of the Bibas children indicated that they were deliberately killed by their captors.
And the Algerian government claims it had no alternative—it had to launch an attack to stop the kidnappers fleeing into the desert with their captives.
But while Israeli officials positively identified the young boys' bodies, they said the children were not killed in an airstrike and instead by their captors.