- Title: IRAQ: HUSBAND OF KIDNAPPED AID WORKER MARGARET HASSAN SPEAKS TO REPORTERS
- Date: 21st October 2004
- Summary: (W3)BAGHDAD,IRAQ (OCTOBER 21, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. LV PULL IN MCU TAHSEEN ALI HASSAN, HUSBAND OF KIDNAPPED CARE INTERNATIONAL AID WORKER MARGARET HASSAN, SITTING DOWN FOR NEWS CONFERENCE 0.23 2. MCU (English) TAHSEEN ALI HASSAN, HUSBAND OF MARGARET HASSAN SAYING: "I have no idea, I think she is a bit hard, her personality is strong, she might be nervous of course, when they kidnapped her, but she is a strong lady." 0.43 3. LV HASSAN ANSWERING REPORTERS' QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH, SAYING: HE IS "JUST WAITING", NOBODY CALLED HIM, NO ONE HAS CALLED HIM FROM THE COALITION FORCES 1.00 4. MCU (English) HASSAN SAYING: (In answer to reporter's question: "If she has an opportunity to be watching television what would you say to her?) "I don't know, I don't know. I am not thinking what to say to her. Come safely to your house, to your family, to the people she love, she worked for them." 1.31 5. LV PULL IN SV HASSAN SPEAKING ON MOBILE PHONE AS HE STANDS UP, SHAKING HANDS 2.00 STILLS (MUTE) (REUTERS) 6. STILLS OF MARGARET HASSAN 2.22 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 5th November 2004 12:00
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- Location: BAGHDAD,IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA2N9K9MAY15HWNU9MM9PIEAIAN
- Story Text: Husband of kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan
speaks to reporters.
Tahseen Ali Hassan, husband of kidnapped British-Iraqi
aid worker Margaret Hassan, spoke to reporters in Baghdad on
Thursday (October 21, 2004) as his wife entered her third day
in captivity with no word from her kidnappers.
The kidnappers of the Irish-born director of operations
for the Australian branch of CARE in Iraq have not
identified themselves or made any demands.
Margaret Hassan, who was born in Dublin and has Irish,
British and Iraqi nationality, was seized on her way to
work in western Baghdad after gunmen blocked her route and
dragged the driver and a companion from the car.
Hours after she was abducted on Tuesday, Hassan, who
has lived in Iraq for 30 years, was shown sitting alone in
a video aired on Al Jazeera television, which said an
unnamed group claimed to be holding her.
Tahseen Ali Hassan said his wife had not received
threats and that the kidnappers had not contacted anyone
with any demands.
He said "she is a bit hard, her personality is strong,
her personality. She might be nervous of course, when they
kidnapped her, but she is a strong lady."
Tahseen Ali Hassan said his message to his wife was:
"Come safely to your house, to your family, to the people
she love, she worked for them."
Care International, an aid agency working in Iraq on
health and water projects, suspended operations Margaret
Hassan, was abducted and said it might pull out of the
country altogether.
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