Sorrow, forgiveness at funeral for ATF agent

  By FRANK ELTMANSEAFORD, N.Y. -- Mourners lined the streets for the funeral of an ATF agent killed in a friendly fire shooting while trying to stop a robbery in a New York City suburb.

A silver hearse carried the body of agent John Capano to a church in Seaford, on Long Island.

Thousands of law enforcement officers stood at attention as it passed Friday. Pipers played "Amazing Grace." Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at the service. He called Capano "a true patriot" who possessed "extraordinary courage."

Capano was killed Saturday while struggling with a robbery suspect. The fatal shot was fired by a retired police lieutenant who had also rushed to the scene alongside an off-duty police officer.

Capano's older brother, James, asked mourners to pray for them, too, saying they had also been trying to stop a crime.

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Missing ex-FBI agent in hostage video: 'Help Me'

A new "proof of life" video emerged Friday of former FBI agent Robert Levinson who disappeared in Iran in 2007, the first substantial piece of public evidence that he is alive and being held as a captive by an unknown group.

In the video, posted by his family on their website, Levinson appears gaunt and says his diabetes medication is running out.

He does not name his captors but pleads for the United States to deal with them.

"I need the help of the United States government to answer the requests of the group that has held me for three and a half years," he said, wearing a thin shirt and sitting on the floor in front of a rock facing.

"Please help me get home. Thirty-three years of service to the United States deserves something. Please help me," Levinson said on the tape, his voice breaking.

The family reportedly received the tape last November but is making it public only now. In a statement on the family website, Levinson's wife, Christine, and son, David, seek to send a message to the group holding the former FBI agent.

"We tried to contact you but you never responded," Levinson's son said.

"No one can help us but you," he said.

Levinson disappeared in 2007 on the Iranian island of Kish where he had gone as part of his work as a private investigator.

U.S. officials say Levinson was not operating in any way on behalf of the U.S. government or any of its agencies at the time of his disappearance.

Iran has repeatedly denied any knowledge of what happened to Levinson, despite the evidence he was last seen in Iran.

U.S. diplomats have repeatedly pressed Iranian officials about Levinson with little success.

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