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November 17, 2004

Video Shows Hostage Slaying Of Margaret Hanson. "Where Is The Outcry?"

Topics: Middle East News and Perspectives

Reported in the Australian News Wednesday Nov 17:

BRITISH-Iraqi aid worker Margaret Hassan is believed dead after a video surfaced showing a blind-folded woman being shot. Arab broadcaster al-Jazeera said it had received a video which showed militants executing a female hostage - believed to be Ms Hassan. The 59-year-old British-Iraqi executive from CARE International was captured on her way to work on October 19. If confirmed, the murder will be the first time that a female hostage has been killed by her abductors.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the video was "probably genuine" as Prime Minister Tony Blair expressed his "abhorrence" at the apparent killing.

Ms Hassan's Iraqi husband today said he believed his wife was dead and appealed for her body to be returned to him. "I beg those people who took Margaret to tell me what they have done with her. They can tell . . . I need her. I need her back to rest in peace," Tahseen Hassan told Britain's Sky News television.  The Australian News article is here...

The report of Ms Hanssan's death, who was not a terrorist, who had lived and cared for Iraqis for 30  years, and had not been trying to kill anyone, and was apparently murdered execution style by her captors, hasn't resulted in any condemnation of her Islamic fundamentalist murderers. Where is the outcry from the international community and the world press? You can hear a pin drop!

Instead, the focus today by the world press, including the U.S. press, is on one battle-worn, tired, wounded U.S. Marine who had lost a friend just the day before via a 'booby-trapped body', because he killed a moving wounded terrorist in a mosque who could have just as easily blown up everyone in the room with a hidden explosive. What has happened to reason?

Posted by Hyscience at November 17, 2004 8:27 AM

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