A video of a kidnapped Italian aid worker is shown on Afghan television, May 29, 2005. photo: AP

    BEIJING, May 30 -- A video of a kidnapped Italian aid worker was broadcast Sunday on Afghan television, showing her wrapped in a brown blanket flanked by two men aiming rifles at her head.

    The tape showed 32-year-old Clementina Cantoni, a worker for CARE International, responded to prompts from a man not shown on the video, identifying herself and naming her father, mother and an uncle.

    The tape, broadcast by independent Tolo TV, which did not say how it had obtained the tape and the Italian Foreign Ministry confirmed the woman on the video was Cantoni.

    The director for CARE International in Afghanistan, Paul Barker, said after watching the video that he didn't see any obvious signs that Cantoni was ill or had been mistreated.

    Earlier, Afghan President Hamid Karzai paid tribute to Cantoni, calling her a "daughter of Afghanistan."

    Cantoni was abducted on May 16, dragged from a car by four armed men as she was being driven to her home in Kabul, the capital. She has been in Afghanistan since 2002 and was working on a project helping Afghan widows and their families.

    (Source: CRIENGLISH.com)