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elf Donating Member (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-19-04 07:44 AM
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CARE director Margaret Hassan kidnaped in Bagdad
News ticker BILD Germany:



Irak: Direktorin der Hilfsorganisation CARE entführt
Dienstag, 19. Oktober 2004, 14.15 Uhr
Die Direktorin der Hilfsorganisation Care International ist am Dienstag im Irak entführt worden. Margaret Hassan sei um 7.30 Uhr in Bagdad verschleppt worden, teilte die Organisation aus London mit. „Derzeit sind wir über die Motive der Kidnapper nicht informiert“, heißt es in einer Erklärung. „Soweit wir wissen, ist Margaret unverletzt.“ Hassan habe sich seit 25 Jahren für die Unterstützung der irakischen Bevölkerung gekümmert. „Wir versuchen alles, um ihre Freilassung zu erreichen“, erklärte Care International weiter.

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Quetzal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-19-04 07:49 AM
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1. Oh $h!t
CARE official reported kidnapped in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) The director of CARE International's operations in Iraq was kidnapped early Tuesday in Baghdad, the organization said.

Margaret Hassan, said to be an Iraqi national, was abducted in the capital at 7:30 a.m., CARE International, United Kingdom said in a statement released in London and read to The Associated Press in Baghdad.

''As of now we are unaware of the motives for the abduction,'' the statement said. ''As far as we know, Margaret is unharmed.

The statement said Hassan had been ''providing humanitarian relief to the people of Iraq'' for more than 25 years.

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/293/world/CARE_official_reported_kidnapp:.shtml
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elf Donating Member (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-19-04 08:01 AM
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2. What do you think
why is it not mentioned at CNN or NSNBC, I don't watch FOX, ?
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