Key advocate for Iraqis, seen as 'heroine', now a hostage
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LONDON -- She's lived in Iraq for three decades and has been a passionate advocate for its people, arguing against the US-led invasion, but humanitarian worker Margaret Hassan finds herself a pawn as the latest hostage in the conflict gripping her adopted homeland.
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10/21/04. The kidnapping of CARE&#39;s director in Iraq, Margaret Hassan, is arguably no different in kind from the now-routine takings committed for cash or for political profit, but somehow it
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Alex Salmond was last night accused of playing party politics with the plight of Kenneth Bigley , the British hostage held in Iraq.
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The girlfriend of an aid worker feared to have been executed by Iraqi militants who claimed he killed one of their men as he broke through a roadblock today said she was âdisturbedâ by mixed reports of his fate.
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A German woman freed this week after being held hostage in Iraq since early February called on her government to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan or said her still-captive son would be executed.
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Care International charity says its chief of operations in Iraq has been kidnapped in Baghdad. A spokeswoman told Reuters on Tuesday that Margaret Hassan, who has been working
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DOHA : A Polish woman held hostage by a militant group in Iraq was shown in a video on Al-Jazeera TV on Saturday night pleading for the withdrawal of Polish troops from the country and the release of women prisoners to save her life.
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She&#39;s lived in Iraq for three decades and has been a passionate advocate for the Iraqi people, arguing against the US-led invasion and the United Nations sanctions that preceded it on grounds they would deepen human suffering.
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A British hostage appeared on a video posted on an Islamic Web site Wednesday weeping and pleading for his life as Iraq's leader and U.S. officials crushed reports that a high-profile female Iraqi weapons ...
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When Margaret Hassan was kidnapped in October, her car was waved down by two men in Iraqi police uniforms. Gunmen surrounded the car and dragged Ms Hassan&#39;s driver and unarmed guard from their seats.
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A Polish woman taken hostage last October in Iraq has been returned to Warsaw, the BBC reported Saturday. Appearing at a press conference alongside Polish Prime Minister Marek
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Iraq kidnap victim Margaret Hassan&#39;s three sisters, from left to right: Catherine Fitzsimons, Deidre Fitzsimons and Geraldine Fitzsimons make a statement to the media in Dublin Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's leader and U.S. officials moved quickly Wednesday to squelch the idea that Saddam Hussein's top female germ-warfare scientist would be freed soon, after a senior Iraqi official said the decision had been made to release her...
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A CANADIAN woman who had been kidnapped in Iraq was freed by a US National Guard unit late yesterday after 16 days in captivity, Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew told CTV television today.
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The Irish-born aid worker Margaret Hassan is entering her third day in captivity in Iraq today after being kidnapped while on her way to work in Baghdad on Tuesday morning.
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The hostage, Guiliana Sgrena, called for foreigners to leave Iraq and emphasized her antiwar reporting.
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An Iraqi group said Friday it was holding  a U.S. journalist hostage in Iraq but would release him  Saturday because he was opposed to U.S. administration  policies, according to a statement on the internet.