Kidnappers Seize Charity Chief in Baghdad

[BeyondGeography]

By Alistair Lyon

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Kidnappers seized the British-Iraqi head of an international charity group in Baghdad Tuesday and later she was shown sitting anxiously and alone in a video broadcast by an Arabic television station.

Margaret Hassan, who has dual nationality and has lived in Iraq (news - web sites) for about 30 years, was seized by kidnappers at 7:30 a.m., a spokeswoman for Care International in London said.

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The Care International spokeswoman said Hassan had grown deep roots in Iraq. "We want to stress that she sees herself as an Iraqi. Iraq is her home. She has been living there for many years and would never consider coming back to Britain," she said.

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Arabic Al Jazeera television later aired footage of Hassan after her capture, sitting in a room and looking anxious. It showed close-ups of her identification cards and said an unnamed Iraqi group had said it had kidnapped her.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041019/ts_nm/iraq_dc_557

[flamingyouth]

1. Good grief, this is horrible

More catastrophic success. :cry:

[BeyondGeography]

2. I'm assuming this is just for money

Let's hope.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Ah yes how does a resistance movement turn the people

against it?

By pulling shit like this. This is just the reality of it. But hey, I don't think they will care.

Hope they release her alive and well

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=915394


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