UK charity worker Iraq 'kidnap'

[muriel_volestrangler]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3756192.stm

A senior worker for British charity Care International was reportedly kidnapped in Iraq on Tuesday morning.

The Foreign Office said: "We have received reports from our embassy in Baghdad suggesting... was taken early this morning."
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The charity worker is thought to have lived in Iraq for over a decade.

A Care International spokeswoman said: "We do want to stress that she is an Iraqi national, not a Briton. She has been living there for many years."

[Meehowski]

1. Same old, same old.........

The "hits" just keep on comin'.........

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. kick

[bigfishsmallpond]

3. Gawd Damn it

Bush you have created a fine mess
fine mess
:grr:

[Rose Siding]

4. New Hostage Has Been Advocate for Iraqis

LONDON -- She's lived in Iraq for three decades and has been a passionate advocate for its people, arguing against the U.S.-led invasion, but humanitarian worker Margaret Hassan finds herself a pawn as the latest hostage in the conflict gripping her adopted homeland.

Director of CARE International's operations in Iraq since 1991, she headed a staff of 60 Iraqis running nutrition, health and water programs and stayed put during last year's war and the ensuing insurgency.

Described by friends as caring, tough and direct, Hassan campaigned against U.N. sanctions imposed on Iraq after Saddam Hussein's regime occupied Kuwait in 1990. She traveled to the United Nations headquarters in New York and to Britain's parliament before the latest war to warn of the threat to already suffering Iraqis.

Hassan, who is in her early 60s, is married to an Iraqi and "considers herself an Iraqi national," CARE spokeswoman Amber Meikle said in London. The Irish foreign minister said she was born in Ireland and is an Irish citizen.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-hassan-profile,0,1759678.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[DeepModem Mom]

5. kick

[Pert_UK]

6. The most cynical and evil hostage-taking so far?

You can't stoop much lower than kidnapping somebody who's spoken out against the US invasion of Iraq and who has risked her life to serve her people in Iraq for many years........

This is so utterly fucked up - my thoughts are with her.

P.