BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A hostage shown in a videotape on an Arabic language satellite TV network Wednesday is the American who was kidnapped Monday at a construction site in Baghdad, according to a U.S. Embassy official.
The official said an identification card shown in the video bears the name Jeffrey Ake, which is the name of the abducted man. The official said Ake is a resident of Indiana.
Al-Jazeera aired video of armed men pointing their machine guns at the hostage. On the tape the man isn't heard speaking, but Al-Jazeera reports he is asking the U.S. government to open a dialogue with the insurgents and that U.S. troops leave Iraq.

Things just keep getting better...

here is a link to the video http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/13/iraq.main/index.html