Margaret Hassan
CARE Australia, the charity group which employs kidnapped British-born Iraqi aid worker Margaret Hassan, said Wednesday that it appeared she had been killed in Iraq.
The organisation said it was shocked and appalled by the apparent death and its priority was now to support her husband Tahseen Hassan.
"It is with profound sadness that we have learnt of the existence of a video in which it appears that our colleague Margaret Hassan has been killed," the group said in a statement.
"We want to express our deepest sympathy to Mrs Hassan's husband, Tahseen, and to her family."
CARE Australia, which was responsible for the international aid group's Iraq operation described Hassan as an extraordinary woman who dedicated her life to the poor and disadvantaged in Iraq, particularly children.
"The whole of CARE is in mourning," it said.
"Through her courage, tenacity and commitment, Mrs Hassan assisted more than 17 million Iraqis living in the most difficult of circumstances.
"Everyone who met her was touched by her personality and compassion."
CARE said its staff and volunteers would continue working around the world fighting poverty, responding to humanitarian emergencies and helping to rebuild communities.
"CARE sincerely thanks the Iraqi people for everything they did to try to secure the safe return of Margaret Hassan and for the many expressions of support," it said.
A CARE Australia spokesman said the charity would make no further comment out of respect for the Hassan family.
Hassan held British, Irish and Iraqi nationality, was married to an Iraqi and had lived in the Gulf country for 30 years.
From here: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/117526/1/.html
As aid worker Margaret Hassan [was] held by kidnappers in Iraq, freelance journalist and long-time friend Felicity Arbuthnot describes the charity boss's heroic endeavours to help the people of Iraq. Even in the bloodshed and turmoil of post-invasion Iraq, the kidnapping of Margaret Hassan, head of Care International in Iraq, is incomprehensible:
Margaret Hassan fell in love with Iraq more than 30 years ago, when she travelled there as a young bride with her Iraqi husband Taheen Ali Hassan.
They had met while studying in London and the former Margaret Fitzsimmons, from Dublin in the "land of a thousand welcomes", fell in love for a second time with Baghdad - formerly Madinat al Salam: City of Peace - and the land known through time as "the cradle of civilisation".
She converted to Islam, learned Arabic and took Iraqi citizenship.
Read the rest here: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1022-27.htm
The organisation said it was shocked and appalled by the apparent death and its priority was now to support her husband Tahseen Hassan.
"It is with profound sadness that we have learnt of the existence of a video in which it appears that our colleague Margaret Hassan has been killed," the group said in a statement.
"We want to express our deepest sympathy to Mrs Hassan's husband, Tahseen, and to her family."
CARE Australia, which was responsible for the international aid group's Iraq operation described Hassan as an extraordinary woman who dedicated her life to the poor and disadvantaged in Iraq, particularly children.
"The whole of CARE is in mourning," it said.
"Through her courage, tenacity and commitment, Mrs Hassan assisted more than 17 million Iraqis living in the most difficult of circumstances.
"Everyone who met her was touched by her personality and compassion."
CARE said its staff and volunteers would continue working around the world fighting poverty, responding to humanitarian emergencies and helping to rebuild communities.
"CARE sincerely thanks the Iraqi people for everything they did to try to secure the safe return of Margaret Hassan and for the many expressions of support," it said.
A CARE Australia spokesman said the charity would make no further comment out of respect for the Hassan family.
Hassan held British, Irish and Iraqi nationality, was married to an Iraqi and had lived in the Gulf country for 30 years.
From here: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/117526/1/.html
As aid worker Margaret Hassan [was] held by kidnappers in Iraq, freelance journalist and long-time friend Felicity Arbuthnot describes the charity boss's heroic endeavours to help the people of Iraq. Even in the bloodshed and turmoil of post-invasion Iraq, the kidnapping of Margaret Hassan, head of Care International in Iraq, is incomprehensible:
Margaret Hassan fell in love with Iraq more than 30 years ago, when she travelled there as a young bride with her Iraqi husband Taheen Ali Hassan.
They had met while studying in London and the former Margaret Fitzsimmons, from Dublin in the "land of a thousand welcomes", fell in love for a second time with Baghdad - formerly Madinat al Salam: City of Peace - and the land known through time as "the cradle of civilisation".
She converted to Islam, learned Arabic and took Iraqi citizenship.
Read the rest here: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1022-27.htm
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