'I want my wife, dead or alive'
2004-11-23 22:10
Baghdad - British aid worker Margaret Hassan's Iraqi husband said in a front-page message carried by a Baghdad newspaper on Tuesday that he wanted her back "dead or alive", a week after an Arab TV network received footage apparently showing his missing wife being murdered.
"I want my wife, dead or alive. If she is dead, I urge you to tell me where she is so that I can lay her to rest," said the appeal by Tahsin Hassan printed in the Al-Mashreq daily.
"I beg those who took my wife to tell me what they did to her. They can call me or call the Iraqi Peace Institute.
"I know there is a tape showing her assassination. The tape might be authentic, but I am not sure if that is the case," the message said.
Hassan, 59, head of Care International's Iraq operations, was seized in Baghdad on October 19 while on her way to work.
A video received a week ago by the Al-Jazeera satellite news network showed an armed man shooting a blind-folded European woman who may have been Margaret Hassan.
- AFP