British Hostage&#39;s Mom Pleads for His Life
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LONDON Sept. 23, 2004 - The 86-year-old mother of a Briton held hostage in Iraq pleaded with his captors to free him Thursday, days after they beheaded two Americans kidnapped along with him.
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Hostage Margaret Hassan has made an emotional appeal for UK forces to withdraw from Iraq, in a video shown on al-Jazeera. She was shown pleading: &quot;Please help me, please help me.
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The wife of the US hostage threatened with execution in Iraq made another impassioned appeal on Tuesday for her husband&#39;s life and urged his captors to open up the lines of communication.
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A British hostage pleaded for his government to save his life in a new video aired today on Arab television after the release of two Italian women and 10 other hostages.
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MARK COLVIN: In Baghdad, the family of the kidnapped head of CARE International have pleaded with the British Prime Minister to stop even speaking Margaret Hassan&#39;s name.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 23 -- A British hostage threatened with death by a militant Islamic group appealed to  Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday to save his life by ordering the release of all women held in Iraqi prisons.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.    There is wide speculation that ransoms were paid for the freedom of a dozen hostages, including two Italian aid workers...
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A weeping British-Iraqi hostage pleaded  for her life in a video broadcast on Friday as British troops  prepared to move nearer Baghdad before an expected U.S.-led  offensive against rebels before January elections.
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The family of Kenneth Bigley, the British engineer who was kidnapped by gunmen from his house in Baghdad this week, has issued a desperate plea for his safe return.
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The family of a Briton held hostage in Iraq have issued an emotional plea for his release as the deadline approaches. Philip Bigley said his brother Ken regarded the Arab world as his &quot;home from home&quot; and
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British-Iraqi aid worker Margaret Hassan&#39;s captors have released a tape of her pleading for Tony Blair to save her life, repeating a tactic used with political effect in the case of slain hostage Kenneth Bigley.
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: A British hostage in Iraq appealed to Tony Blair to help free him in a new videotape aired today that left his family relieved Kenneth Bigley was alive but appalled to see him caged and in distress.
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The families of five Britons kidnapped in Iraq in May appealed Thursday to their captors for their release, as Foreign Secretary David Miliband said he was &quot;deeply concerned&quot; for them.
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THE family of a British engineer kidnapped in Iraq by gunmen last night begged for his release. Relatives of 62-year-old Ken Bigley said they were struggling to understand why the dad-of-one was targeted along with two Americans.
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The family of Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage being held in Iraq, has made a direct appeal for his release to the militants who abducted the 62-year old-engineer.
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Anguished pleas to save hostage Kenneth Bigley have taken their toll on his family and piled more pressure on Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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The 86-year-old mother of a Briton held hostage in Iraq tells his captors: "Send him home to me alive".