Agency Halts Aids Projects in Iraq

World | October 20, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00

CARE International has suspended its aid operations in Iraq, after the director of the charity's work there was kidnapped. A video of Margaret Hassan has been broadcast on al-Jazeera TV station, showing her with her hands tied behind her back. She was abducted by an unnamed group on her way to work in Baghdad. Her husband Tahseen Ali Hassan has told al-Jazeera the family has received no word from her captors. Hassan, who was born in Dublin, has dual Iraqi and British nationality and has lived in Iraq for 30 years. She was kidnapped at around on Tuesday.

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