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REPORTED KILLED. MARGARET HASSAN, 59, director of the relief group Care International in Iraq; apparently by gunmen who abducted her in Baghdad on Oct. 19; as reported by her family and Arabic news network al-Jazeera, which received a video that appeared to show her being shot in the head. The Irish-born aid worker fell in love with Iraq after moving there with her Iraqi-born husband in 1972. Through Saddam Hussein's rule and Gulf War bombings she stayed, learning Arabic and converting to Islam. She became a spokeswoman for Iraqi children suffering in the wake...
...first time I met MARGARET HASSAN, CARE International's Iraq director?who was murdered by insurgents last week?I was puzzled. It was in an Iraqi government office in 1998. Here was a petite Irishwoman in her 50s with an English accent speaking fluent Arabic in one of the world's most dangerous pariah states. The U.N. sanctions that had wedged the Iraqis between an evil regime and an uncaring world had been in place for eight years. She fixed her strong, brown eyes on me and gave me the facts: Iraqi children were dying by the thousands; Iraq...
What is the insurgents' purpose in going after humanitarian workers like Margaret Hassan, care's longtime country director in Iraq, who was taken hostage last week? As it turns out, the tactic has sometimes been used successfully by the Taliban in Afghanistan, forcing aid organizations to suspend operations and driving a wedge between the people and those trying to bring improvements to the country. That seems to be the thinking of insurgents in Iraq who have been targeting aid workers for abduction in recent months and who are now believed to be holding Hassan. "Please, please...
Born in Dublin, Hassan is married to an Iraqi, holds British, Irish and Iraqi citizenship and has lived in Iraq for more than 30 years. She has been a critic of sanctions over the years and a stalwart leader, before and during the war, of efforts to improve the country's faltering water, health and education systems. A few months before the war began, Hassan told TIME the sanctions against Iraq had helped create "a dependent society with little or no ability to improve its situation." Says Richard Downes, a reporter for Irish television station RTE who knows Hassan well...
...genocide is U.S. hype in an election year and accuses the rebels, who control mountainous central Darfur, of committing raids and kidnappings of their own. Aid agencies agree that the rebels are guilty of attacks, including, last week, the first outside Darfur. Khartoum says the rebels are funded by Hassan al-Turabi, who supported the 1989 coup that installed al-Bashir as President but has since fallen out with the government. The war in Darfur, say government insiders and opposition figures, is a proxy battle for power in Khartoum. "This is a war that the rebels want to fight inside...