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Head of CARE International in Iraq Believed Slain by Captors

(Los Angeles Times) Relatives of aid worker Margaret Hassan said Tuesday they believed her captors in Iraq had killed her, four weeks after she was kidnapped in Baghdad. Hassan's Iraqi husband, Tahseen Ali Hassan, told the BBC that a videotape appeared to show her death. Irish-born Margaret Hassan, 59, who headed CARE International in Iraq for the last decade, had lived in Iraq for 30 years and was a convert to Islam. Her siblings described her as a "friend of the Arab world."
2004-11-17 00:00:00
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