World News 17-11-2004 Kidnapped Aid Worker Murdered who: Aid worker Margaret Hassan what: Has been murdered by her kidnappers, video reveals where: Iraq when: Yesterday snippet: "The family of Margaret Hassan were mourning her death last night after the news that the aid worker had been shot dead by her terrorist captors," says The Scotsman. A month after the kidnapping of the 59 year-old CARE International coordinator, Arabic television channel al-Jazeera received a video of a hooded man "firing a pistol into the head of a blindfolded woman wearing an orange jumpsuit". The station refused to broadcast it. "Mrs Hassan was a Muslim and, while she held British citizenship, she was born in Dublin and - after marrying Iraqi economist Tahseen Ali Hassan - had become a naturalised Iraqi," explains The Scotsman`s Ian Johnson. She met her husband in London and had worked in Iraq since 1972, first for the British Council and then, following the Gulf War, as director of wide-ranging health, nutrition, water and sanitation projects for CARE. She was "a tireless opponent of the sanctions regime against Iraq," says The Guardian`s David Pallister, "which she believed was responsible for the inadequate food and medical provisions for ordinary people." "I am hoping to hear some more news, at least where her body is," says Mr Hassan, quoted in The Independent, "so that I can give her a proper burial. I feel shattered now, I just do not know what to think any more." [... more]

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