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Margaret Hassan is an aid worker who was kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraq on October 19, 2004. She has joint British, Irish, and Iraqi citizenship, is married to an Iraqi, has been living in the country for 30 years and is the head of operations for the humanitarian relief organisation CARE International in Iraq.
Her kidnappers have not issued any specific demands, but in a video released of her in captivity she pleads for the withdrawal of British troops. She also states that "these might be" her "last hours", and that she doesn't "want to die like Bigley", who was beheaded in Iraq only weeks earlier.
CARE International is suspending operations in Iraq because of Ms. Hassan's kidnapping. Patients of an Iraqi hospital (where her work had some effect) have taken to the streets in protest against the hostage takers' actions.
External links
- "Weeping Hassan in plea for life" – BBC News, 22 October 2004
- "CARE worker pleads for her life" – CNN, 22 October 2004
- "Plea for Iraq Kidnap Clues" – The Guardian, 24 October 2004
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