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10/22/2004:

"Hostage Hassan pleads for her life"

A video showing Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped director of aid agency Care International, pleading for British troops to be withdrawn from Iraq was today broadcast on Arabic television.

The al-Jazeera channel screened footage showing the Dublin-born Ms Hassan, who has lived in Iraq for more than 30 years, weeping as she appealed for help.

"Please help me," she begged. "This might be my last hour. Please help me. The British people, tell Mr Blair to take the troops out of Iraq and not bring them here to Baghdad. That's why people like myself and Mr [Kenneth] Bigley have been caught. Please, please, I beg of you."

Full Article : guardian.co.uk