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(回答先: 【速報】マーガレット・ハッサン氏（英国出身の女性）殺害！ ＞信じたくないが・・・ 投稿者 Kotetu 日時 2004 年 11 月 17 日 03:42:08)
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Margaret Hassan feared killed
Staff and agencies
Tuesday November 16, 2004 The Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1352678,00.html
Kidnapped charity worker Margaret Hassan. Photograph: AP
The family of Margaret Hassan, the British aid worker taken hostage in Iraq, tonight said they feared she had been murdered by her captors.
They said in a statement: "Our hearts are broken. 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. Our prayers and thoughts are with our dear brother in law Tahseen."
The family statement, which followed reports in Iraq of a video reportedly showing her murder, added: "Margaret was a friend of the Arab world, to people of all religions. Her love of the Arab people started in the 1960s when she worked in Palestinian camps, living with the poorest of the poor and supporting the refugees.
The British embassy in Baghdad confirmed that a video tape had surfaced appearing to show Ms Hassan's murder. "We can confirm there is a tape that appears to show Margaret's murder," an embassy official told Reuters. "We believe it is probably genuine."
"For the past 30 years, Margaret worked tirelessly for the Iraqi people. Margaret had only goodwill towards everyone. She had no prejudice against any creed. She dedicated her whole life to working for the poor and vulnerable, helping those who had no one else.
"Those who are guilty of this atrocious act, and those who support them, have no excuses. Nobody can justify this. 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. The gap she leaves will never be filled."
Ms Hassan, who has joint British and Iraqi nationality and had lived in Baghdad for some 30 years, was seized on October 19 while on her way to work at Care International, the charity where she was country director.
She had appeared in video tapes released by her unknown captors calling on the British government to withdraw its troops from Iraq.
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Family believes Hassan murdered
The family of Dublin-born Iraqi aid worker Margaret Hassan believes she has been killed by hostage-takers.
Story from BBC NEWS:
Published: 2004/11/16 18:10:41 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4017515.stm
Mrs Hassan's brothers and sisters, Michael, Deirdre, Kathryn and Geraldine Fitzsimons, said they had accepted her death, adding: "Our hearts are broken."
And her husband, Tahseen Ali Hassan, has told Reuters news agency he too believes she has been killed.
Mrs Hassan, who has Irish, British and Iraqi nationality, was seized by an unknown group in Baghdad on 19 October.
"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," her brothers and sisters said in a statement.
They described her as a "friend of the Arab world, to people of all religions".
They added that she had only goodwill towards everyone.
"She had no prejudice against any creed. She dedicated her whole life to working for the poor and vulnerable, helping those who had no-one else," the statement read.
They described her murder as "unforgivable", adding: "The gap she leaves will never be filled."
Several news agencies have reported that a tape showing her murder has surfaced in Iraq.
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November 16, 2004
Margaret Hassan, in an image from one of the earlier hostage videos
Video found 'showing Margaret Hassan's murder'
By Jenny Booth, Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1361460,00.html
A video has beenhanded in to a television stationin Iraq which appears to show the murder of the British-Iraqi aid worker Margaret Hassan.
The Arabic television channel Al Jazeera saidtonight thatit had received a video showing a gunman killing a woman, believed to be Mrs Hassan. The channel did not give further details, except to say that it would not air the tape.
"We can confirm there is a tape that appears to show Margaret’s murder," said a British embassy official in Baghdad. "We believe it is probably genuine."
If confirmed, the murder of Mrs Hassan would be the first killing of a foreign woman taken hostage by militants in Iraq.
Her husband Tahsin Hussan tonight appealed for her kidnappers to hand over her body if she had been killed.
"I have been told that there is a video of Margaret which appears to show her murder. The video may be genuine but I do not know,"Mr Hassan said in a television interview, his eyes red and deeply shadowed.
"I beg the people who took Margaret to tell me what they have done with her. They can tell me, they can call the helpline.
"I need her, I need her back to rest in peace. She has lived with me in Iraq for 30 years. She dedicated her life to serving the Iraqi people. Please, now, please return her to me."
Minutes later, Mrs Hassan's brothers and sisters in Ireland issued a statement in which they confirmed that they now believed that she was dead.
"Our hearts are broken," the statement read. "We have kept hoping for as long as we could but we now have to accept that Margaret is probably gone and at last her suffering has ended."
Until tonight, the last known communication from the kidnappers was two weeks ago on November 2, when they threatened to turn her over to the group which beheaded Ken Bigley if the British Government refused to pull its troops out of Iraq.
Then, Al-Jazeera received a video tapewhich saidthat Mrs Hassan would be handed over to al-Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi "within 48 hours". The TV channel did not broadcast the full contents of the video because "of the hostage's condition".
Mrs Hassan's three sisters, who until that point had been heeding pleas from British diplomats and from Mrs Hassan's employers at the charity CARE International not to intervene, spoke out to make it clear to the kidnappers that they had no influence over what the British Government is doing in Iraq.
Deirdre Fitzsimons broke down in tears as she said: "We have listened to your demands and begged Tony Blair and the British Government to release the women prisoners and also not to move the troops. But we are Irish and have no influence on the British Government."
Mediators in Iraq have been trying for weeks to make direct contact with her kidnappers but were unable to discover the identity of the group holding Mrs Hassan, who was ambushed outside her Baghdad office on October 19.
CARE officials underlined how Mrs Hassan describes herself as an Iraqi even though she still has British citizenship and has lived in Baghdad for more than 30 years.
She was born in Dublin and has family in Kenmare, Co Kerry, although Deirdre and Catherine Fitzsimons now live in London. In Baghdad her husband, Tahsin Ali Hassan, has made his own appeals.
Tonight Care International issued a statement, saying that the organisation was appalled and shocked.
"Margaret was an extraordinary woman who dedicated her life to helping the poor and disadvantaged in Iraq, particularly children. The whole of Care International is mourning."
The statement went on to praise Mrs Hassan's "courage, tenacity and commitment" in her 30 year career in aid work.
Earlier this week there was speculation that Mrs Hassan's body had been found in Fallujah, after the corpse of a white, Western woman with blonde hair was found in the street. The reports remained unconfirmed, and it was later thought that the body was that of a missing Polish woman.
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