Al-Jazeera airs new footage of pleading British hostage in Iraq

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041027/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_britain_hostages_041027185758&e=1&ncid=


~snip~


Hassan "issued an appeal to Britons to urge British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) to withdraw his troops from Iraq and not redeploy them in Baghdad," the television said.


The Doha-based Arab satellite television aired footage of the aid worker with a wall as background, but she was not heard speaking.


Hassan's plea was aired as British troops began their deployment on Wednesday from southern Iraq to an area near the Iraqi capital on a US-requested mission.


In the video received by Al-Jazeera, Hassan also "asked the British government to release Iraqi women prisoners held" in Iraq, Al-Jazeera said.

[cliss]

1. This is deadly for Blair.

RumsFailed was right in that he said recently, "they know they can't out-fight us because we're technically superior. They are, however, trying to break our will".

The insurgents ferreted out and found Blair's Achilles Heel. He simply cannot endure a long, drawn-out parade of Britons being dragged before the video cam-corder, before they are executed. Blair knows this.

I suspect this is why they carted him off to the hospital, about 3 weeks ago (heart problems). I think Mr. Bigley pushed Blair off the edge. This is not the end of it, Tony.