Evil muslims execute another innocent...

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

I oppose the war in Iraq, and, if I was American, I would not have voted for Bush. Having said that, these cretinous jihadi monsters need to be exterminated - in large numbers - NOW...


Kidnapped CARE director believed dead

LONDON - The family of British hostage Margaret Hassan says they believe she is dead, after a videotape surfaced that apparently shows a militant firing a pistol into the head of a blindfolded woman.

"Our hearts are broken," said a statement released Tuesday by Michael, Deirdre, Geraldine and Kathryn Fitzsimons, who are the Irish-born Hassan's brother and sisters. "We have kept hoping for as long as we could, but we now have to accept that Margaret has probably gone and at last her suffering has ended."

Tahsin Hassan, her husband, said a tape has been discovered appearing to show his wife being killed. Jihad Ballout, a spokesperson for the Arab satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera, said the station received a copy of the video a few days ago.

The Fitzsimons family released its statement through Britain's Foreign Office.
"Nobody can justify this," the statement said. "Margaret was against sanctions and the war. To commit such a crime against anyone is unforgivable. But we cannot believe how anybody could do this to our kind, compassionate sister."

Hassan, 59, was the Iraq director for CARE International when she was kidnapped from her car on Oct. 19 as she drove to work in Baghdad.
She had lived in Iraq for almost 30 years and holds British, Irish and Iraqi passports.
"It is with profound sadness that we have learned of the existence of a video in which it appears that our colleague Margaret Hassan has been killed," said CARE in a statement. "The whole of CARE is in mourning."

Hassan appeared in videotapes released by her captors, who are still unknown. They called on the British government to withdraw troops from Iraq.
In one of the videos, Hassan made an impassioned plea for her life, crying uncontrollably and collapsing.

The group holding her said they would hand her over to another group headed by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi if Britain didn't withdraw its troops.

Al-Zarqawi's followers have killed at least six foreign hostages, including three Americans, a Briton, a Japanese and a South Korean.