Hostage urges Britain to quit Iraq
Thu 28 October, 2004 07:07
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraqi-British hostage Margaret Hassan has again urged
Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq and also to free Iraqi women
prisoners, Al Jazeera television has reported.
The Arab channel aired a video on Wednesday showing Hassan, an aid worker
who was seized by unknown kidnappers in Baghdad a week ago, standing in a
dimly lit room.
"Please release the women prisoners from the prison in Iraq," said a tired
looking Hassan, director of the Care International charity in Iraq, in her
second such appeal and third video appearance. Her other comments were
barely audible.
But Al Jazeera said Hassan appealed to Prime Minister Tony Blair to withdraw
troops from Iraq and not deploy them in Baghdad.
The broadcaster said Hassan also asked Care International employees to end
their operations in Iraq. The charity suspended its work in the country
after Hassan was kidnapped.
In London, a Foreign Office spokesman said: "We will consider very carefully
what response, if any, to make to this latest video."
Earlier this month, militants from al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's
group beheaded British national Kenneth Bigley after releasing similarly
desperate videos in which he pleaded for Blair to meet the demands of his
captors.
Unlike Bigley's case, Hassan's captors have not identified themselves, made
any direct demands, or appeared in the three videos taken of Hassan after
her capture.
In all three videos, Hassan appeared wearing civilian clothes and not an
orange jumpsuit --- which militants of Al Qaeda Organisation of Holy War in
Iraq had forced several hostages to wear before decapitating them.
Unlike previous videos of hostages kidnapped in Iraq, there were no banners
shown in the short footage.
Dublin-born Hassan, who also appeared in videos issued by the kidnappers
last week, is the eighth foreign woman to have been kidnapped in Iraq since
April.
The others, including two Italian aid workers held for three weeks in
September, have been freed.
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