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	Margaret Hassan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Margaret Hassan (also known as Madam Margaret) (April 18, 1945 – November 16, 2004) was an aid worker who worked in Iraq for many years and was kidnapped and murdered there at the age of 59 by Islamic militants.
		During the early 1980s Hassan became the assistant director of studies at the British Council; later in the decade she became director.
		Hassan was kidnapped in Baghdad on October 19, 2004, and apparently killed some four weeks later.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Hassan (1123 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Margaret Hassan
		Margaret Hassan, who has been murdered aged 59, devoted more than 30 years of her life to helping the disadvantaged people of Iraq.
		Margaret Hassan was a familiar and immensely popular figure on the streets of Baghdad.
		Margaret Hassan was born Margaret Fitzsimons in Dublin shortly before VE Day in 1944.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/18/db1803.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/11/18/ixportal.html (731 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Margaret Hassan
		Hassan was born Margaret Fitzsimmons in Ireland, where her early childhood was spent in a Dublin suburb.
		Hassan was kidnapped in Baghdad on October 19, when men dressed in police uniforms stopped her car as she was being driven to her office.
		Hassan, who had British, Irish and Iraq nationality, was then shown pleading for her life and appealing to the British government.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1352957,00.html (979 words)

	PressInfo # 202 Mourning Margaret Hassan in Baghdad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Margaret Hassan was married to an Iraqi, lived for more than 30 years in Iraq, by and large simultaneously with Saddam Hussein's brutal rule.
		Margaret Hassan was not killed in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, she was murdered in the Iraq that has been created by Messrs Bush, Blair, Berlusconi, Fogh Rasmussen and other Western leaders and by U.S. ambassador John Negroponte as well as by the former exile CIA hand and hand-picked prime minister Ayad Allawi.
		Margaret Hassan was killed by a completely misguided policy and formidable structure of male power, of hubris and ignorance, of playing it cool when knowing one is guilty, of cultural contempt together with a war machine that no one seems to control anymore, with no mercy - only formidable, brutal power.
	www.transnational.org /pressinf/2004/pi202_MargaretHassan.html (962 words)

	Portait of an innocent victim, Margaret Hassan
		Margaret Hassan, the woman who had been kidnapped in Baghdad on 19 October 2004 and killed some four weeks later, apparently on 14 November 2004, was an innocent victim of terror.
		She was born Margaret Fitzsimmons in 1945 in Dublin, Ireland, to parents Peter and Mary Fitzsimmons.
		Margaret remained in Baghdad during the 1991 first Gulf War, although the British Council suspended operations in Iraq, and she was left jobless at the end of it.
	www.periwork.com /news/international/portrait.htm (842 words)

	The LIfe and Mysterious Murder of Margaret Hassan
		Margaret Hassan was unapologetic in her opposition to the sanctions and the war against Iraq.
		Margaret Hassan abduction was a carbon copy of the abduction of Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, the two Italian women who were working for the Bridge to Baghdad humanitarian NGO.
		It should be borne in mind that Margaret Hassan was not killed in Saddam Hussein's Iraq; she was murdered in the US-occupied Iraq.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article7345.htm (1565 words)

	CNN.com - Family heartbreak over Hassan fate - Nov 17, 2004
		Hassan's wife was kidnapped on October 19 by a group that did not identify itself.
		Hassan's pleas are not heard in the tape, but an anchor for Al-Jazeera described the contents of her message.
		Hassan was kidnapped on the street shortly after she arrived at her office.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/11/16/iraq.hassan (992 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Britain says body found in Iraq not Margaret Hassan
		Hassan's four brothers and sisters released a statement last month saying they "have to accept that Margaret has probably gone and at last her suffering has ended." CARE said it was in "mourning," and Hassan's Iraqi husband, Tahseen Ali Hassan, released an emotional television appeal for his wife's body to be returned.
		Hassan was the among the most high-profile of more than 170 foreigners kidnapped in Iraq this year, and the first female hostage to be killed.
		Hassan was among nine foreign women hostages abducted in Iraq this year.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002106129_webhassan01.html (437 words)

	Margaret Hassan: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Margaret Hassan (also Madam Margaret) (April 18,1945–November 14, EHandler: no quick summary.
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		Margaret joined humanitarian relief organisation CARE International[Click link for more facts about this topic] in 1991, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/margaret_hassan.htm (1724 words)

	Who Killed Margaret Hassan? By Robert Fisk
		Margaret Hassan was well aware that many Iraqi women had been kidnapped, raped, ransomed or murdered by the Baghdad mafia.
		Margaret Hassan fainting, Margaret Hassan having water thrown over her face to revive her, Margaret Hassan crying again, pleading for the withdrawal of the Black Watch regiment from the Euphrates River.
		But not Margaret Hassan, even though she spoke fluent Arabic and could explain her work to her captors in their own language.
	www.countercurrents.org /fisk181104.htm (716 words)

	Hostage Margaret Hassan killed
		Margaret Hassan, a British-born Iraqi national, the director of Care International's operation in Iraq, is seen in this January 2003 photo taken in New York.
		London - The family of Margaret Hassan, an aid worker abducted in Iraq last month, said on Tuesday they believed she was dead.
		Hassan, 59, country director in Iraq for the charity Care International, was kidnapped by armed men who stopped her car as she was going to work in Baghdad on October 19.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1622111,00.html (232 words)

	Video: Margaret Hassan Murdered » Outside The Beltway \| OTB
		Margaret Hassan, a kidnapped aid worker who spent decades bringing food and medicine to Iraqis, was believed murdered after Al-Jazeera television said Tuesday it received a video showing a hooded militant shooting a blindfolded woman in the head.
		Hassan was abducted in Baghdad on Oct. 19 on her way to work, the most prominent of more than 170 foreigners kidnapped in Iraq this year.
		Hassan was married to an Iraqi, was for all intents and purposes an Iraqi herself, and was almost certainly an opponent of the war.
	www.outsidethebeltway.com /archives/2004/11/video_margaret_hassan_murdered (886 words)

	Opinion/Editorial: Remembering Margaret Hassan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Margaret's life was dedicated to lifting up the downtrodden, to holding out the hand of hope to the destitute, to protecting all human beings wherever she found them.
		If Margaret were alive today she would be calling upon multinational forces and resistance fighters to respect the rules of engagement in accordance with international humanitarian law.
		As a tribute to Margaret's heart of gold and her head of steel, to her honesty and to her strength, "we the peoples" must reflect on and attempt to right what has gone so terribly wrong in Iraq.
	electroniciraq.net /news/1724.shtml (1026 words)

	CARE profoundly saddened by the apparent death of Mrs. Margaret Hassan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is with profound sadness that we have learned of the existence of a video in which it appears that our colleague Margaret Hassan has been killed.
		Hassan was an extraordinary woman who dedicated her life to the poor and disadvantaged in Iraq, particularly the children.
		Hassan assisted more than 17 million Iraqis living in the most difficult of circumstances.
	www.care.org /newsroom/articles/2004/11/20041116_hassan.asp (190 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| A coward's tribute to Margaret Hassan
		Margaret Hassan and I met in Baghdad for several hours in early October 2002, under the most dire circumstances -- a looming American invasion.
		Margaret explained that any items which the Sanctions Committee did, from time to time, permit to be imported were paid for in hard currency generated by the Oil for Food programme.
		If Margaret Hassan is indeed dead, then a great deal of vital truth and heroic humanity has perished with her.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/718/re2.htm (999 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Leaders condemn 'Hassan murder'
		On Thursday morning a special church service for Mrs Hassan was held in Kenmare, County Kerry, the area where her mother was born and her sister Geraldine lives.
		After Mrs Hassan was kidnapped, her family and colleagues repeatedly pleaded for her release.
		Mrs Hassan was driving to her job as director of Care International's Iraq operations when she was seized.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4018335.stm (656 words)

	Leading journalist Robert Fisk asks: Who killed Margaret Hassan? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The kidnap of Margaret Hassan on October 19 created an understandable outcry and widespread consternation, particularly because she was an outspoken opponent of the US-led war and subsequent occupation of Iraq who had dedicated herself to the cause of the Iraqi people.
		Hassan had lived in Iraq since 1972 after meeting her husband Tahseen Ali Hassan when he was studying in Britain.
		Firstly, Fisk draws attention to earlier videos of Hassan released by her kidnappers (on October 19, 22 and 27) in which she is shown crying and pleading for the withdrawal of the UK’s Black Watch regiment.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/nov2004/fisk-n18.shtml (729 words)

	Margaret Hassan: A Personal Tale
		Margaret Hassan fell in love with Iraq more than 30 years ago, when she travelled there as a young bride with her Iraqi husband Taheen Ali Hassan.
		I first met Margaret Hassan in early 1992, months after Iraq had been "reduced to a pre-industrial age for a considerable time to come" according to the then special rapporteur to the UN.
		When Margaret drove to work last Tuesday morning, she was reportedly flagged down by two men in police uniform, and suspecting nothing, the car stopped.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/1022-27.htm (947 words)

	Surfette: WHY KIDNAP MRS. MARGARET HASSAN?
		Margaret Hassan, a high-profile director with CARE, the world's largest relief agency, was kidnapped in Iraq Tuesday morning as she was being driven to work.
		Hassan is Muslim, a high-profile critic of the U.S. military presence in Iraq and has testified on the plight of Iraqi children before Parliament and the UN.
		Hassan was last seen when the Arab television station Al-Jazeera broadcast "a brief video showing Hassan, wearing a white blouse and appearing tense, sitting in a room with bare white walls," Pravda reports.
	surfette.typepad.com /surfette/2004/10/mrs_margaret_hu.html (667 words)

	Margaret Hassan Archives : Diggers Realm
		Video received by Al-Jazeera reportedly shows that Margaret Hassan was executed by a single gunshot to the back of the head by the terrorist group holding her hostage in Iraq.
		There are reports that Margaret Hassan, the Director of CARE that was taken hostage on October 19th may be inside the city of Fallujah.
		A new video of hostage Margaret Hassan was procured by Al-Jazeera, but they refuse to air it because of her condition on the video.
	www.diggersrealm.com /mt/archives/cat_margaret_hassan.html (520 words)

	Most Inspiring Person of the Year 2004--Nominee Margaret Hassan -- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Margaret Hassan, director of the Iraqi branch of Care International, was on her way to work one day in October when gunmen stopped her car and forced her out.
		Born in Ireland, Hassan was still a teenager when she fell in love with her husband, Iraqi-born Tahseen Ali Hassan.
		Hassan was appointed to head the Iraqi branch of Care in 1991.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/157/story_15719_1.html (480 words)

	Iraqis Mourn Loss of Humanitarian Aid Worker
		Hassan's neighbors and co-workers who said the killing of the humanitarian aid worker was senseless.
		The next door neighbor of Margaret Hassan, who doesn't want her named revealed, says there is no excuse for the killing of the humanitarian aid worker.
		Margaret Hassan, 59, was kidnapped on October 19 while she was being driven to her office in Baghdad.
	www.voanews.com /english/2004-11-17-voa50.cfm (482 words)

	AlterNet: War on Iraq: Remembering Margaret Hassan
		Margaret Hassan was a human ransom note from her captors.
		Our country needs us to be the voice of Margaret Hassan in calling for a peaceful resolution to a U.S. war that has unleashed terror on the Iraqi people and twisted the lives of U.S. soldiers sent to fight them.
		Let Margaret Hassan's murder be a call to restore order through humanitarian organizations like CARE, to which she devoted over 20 years of her life, and to giving leadership for rebuilding Iraq to the Iraqi people and the United Nations.
	www.alternet.org /waroniraq/20560 (867 words)

	The World Today - Margaret Hassan captors threaten to hand her over to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
		The relatives of Mrs Hassan, who was born in Ireland, have issued an emotional plea for her release.
		DEIRDRE FITZSIMONS: We are the Irish family of Margaret Hassan, and we are pleading with you to set her free.
		Mrs Hassan is an Iraqi citizen who has dedicated her life to helping the poorest and most disadvantaged people in Iraq.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1233809.htm (790 words)

	CNN.com - Tributes to Iraq's 'mama Margaret' - Nov 17, 2004
		Hassan, 59, worked in the Middle Eastern country for 30 years and for the last 12 years she worked for CARE International as Iraq country director.
		She was a vocal opponent of the international sanctions imposed on Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and she traveled widely before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 to warn that such a conflict would bring a "humanitarian catastrophe" on the country.
		Hassan declined to leave her post 12 months previously when car bomb attacks began to strike humanitarian organizations, leading most aid groups to abandon Baghdad.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/11/17/iraq.hassan.profile (1018 words)

	Aid group pleads for release of hostage - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		CARE released this photograph of Margaret Hassan to accompany a statement it issued Friday reminding her captors that she was an Iraqi citizen who had devoted years to caring for other Iraqis.
		Hassan has helped over her decades of charitable work in Iraq in calling for her immediate release,” CARE said in a statement.
		Hassan, who is married to an Iraqi, was seized by gunmen Tuesday in western Baghdad as she rode to work in her car.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6305799 (1306 words)

	Killing of Margaret Hassan: Something Evil This Way Comes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When Margaret was driving to work, she was, reports say, flagged down by two men in police uniform.
		Margaret Hassan could not have been further from that description of fighter or killer yet in a nightmarish Kafkaesque way, anonymous people for no stated reason shot her.
		The pure and simple evil that pulled the trigger on this good woman, Margaret Hassan, is abroad in the world and it should be condemned loudly and repeatedly by those who are Muslim as well as by every other human being.
	www.arabnews.com /?page=7§ion=0&article=54665&d=18&m=11&y=2004 (836 words)

	Video Apparently Shows Slaying Of Margaret Hassan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tahsin Hassan appealed to the kidnappers to return his wife's body for burial if indeed they had killed her.
		Dublin-born Margaret Hassan, who has joint British and Iraqi nationality, was seized on Oct. 19 while on her way to work at Care International, for which she was Iraq country director.
		Hassan had appeared in video tapes released by her unknown captors calling on the British government to withdraw its troops from Iraq.
	www.rense.com /general59/slay.htm (365 words)

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