Posted on 11/04/2004 5:17:47 AM PST by Former Military Chick
THE family of the Iraq hostage Margaret Hassan fear that she cannot stand more torment from her captors after they were told that she is seen on video collapsing unconscious to the ground as she begs for her life. Her sisters and brother could not bear to watch the film, but were given a graphic description of Mrs Hassan’s obvious distress as she faints while being taunted by a masked man.
A hooded figure is seen throwing a bucket of water over her as she lays sprawled on the floor. The 59-year-old Irish-born aid worker then struggles to her feet, soaking wet and shaking. Then her captor reportedly taunts Mrs Hassan while she starts to cry and buries her head in her hands.
Relatives were told of her mistreatment just before they made their first public plea for her release in Dublin on Tuesday. Her kidnappers have threatened that today they will hand her over to the terror group that beheaded Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage. The group, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has never been known to free a hostage.
Her employer, the charity CARE International, said that it was “profoundly distressed” at film of Mrs Hassan’s condition. The Arab broadcaster al-Jazeera said that it was sticking to its decision not to show the latest video of her in full for “humanitarian reasons”.
A network spokesman said: “She looks in a terrible state.”
I spelt it wrong. Fallujah, Iraq
That place i've heard of. May be reduced to pile of rubble by next week.......FALL - LOOSAHS......
Fool me once, shame on you......Fool me twice, ain't gonna happen......
"You are one cold hearted angry sumbitch aren't ya?"
Coldhearted? Guilty as charged, although I prefer to think of myself as logical, rational, and unemotional, in a masculine way, unlike a certain emotionally immature freeper who occasionally takes a hissy fit in response to my posts who shall remain unnamed.
Angry? Nope, not angry, I am blessed and I am smart enough to know that I have it good.
Sumbitch ? No, but I see you are staying true to form and continuing to call fellow freepers names. Why don't you save your bile for the Rats over at DU?
Cheers!
You are one sick dude.
You are one sick dude.
>>Fool me twice, ain't gonna happen......<<
How many cease fires did we have during the war in Nam? I can remember about four when I was in country.
You always blame the victim...even victims of the very folks who wish to destroy us and our children.
That is not even tough talk. That is warped talk.
Masculine?
What's masculine Max about thinking it's this women's fault that she is probably right now being raped and brutalized and soon to have her head sawed off with a hunting knife.
I don't see you as masculine son. I see you as a skeered boy with a keyboard touting gameboy platitudes ...a punk in other words.
Yea. I'm calling you names.
Why are you hiding?
There are several right here who know I'm not hiding. I'm a 46 year old man in Nashville calling you a wolf ticket selling punk.
I don't think this forum needs twisted sissies like you.
Come our of yer hole boy....be a man...lol
HEY HEY LBJ.......
This does not cross my mind.
So....between me & you, that leaves you as the described terrified victim. How long have you worried over this?
"What about all the other dead kidnapped "contractors"..."
Since you felt the need to bring in reinforcements (and among them, Mr. McGee and Squantos for whom I have the highest regard and respect) I will respond thusly:
I have the highest regard for the Italian, Fabrizio Quattrocchi, who shouted, "Now I'll show you how an Italian dies!". I also have the highest regard for Mark Steyn who toured Iraq, including Fallujah, by car right after the war. Mark said that he had a gun and he had made up his mind that no matter what happened, he was not getting in a car with anyone who tried to force him into car.
I certainly have the highest regard for the "contractors" who were killed, mutilated, and whose bodies were displayed in Fallujah. I note that they did not get down on their knees and beg for their lives and berate their governments as have other kidnapped hostages, who I have no respect for.
While I do not know if I would have the balls to emulate Mr. Quattrocchi, were I to find myself in a similar position, I certainly hope that I would. I do know that if I should decide to go to Iraq, I would be armed and if anyone attempted to kidnap me, I would do my utmost to take as many of them with me as I went down fighting.
Does this help clarify my position on kidnapped contractors in Iraq for you?
That's unkind and unnecessary. This woman is trying to make her world a better one. And she's willing to take risks to do so. If more people did that, it probably would be a better world. God bless her. I hope she's released without further harm.
"We're going to find out, sooner or later, if Abdul will pray, to a glowing crater."
I agree 100% and I hope that we find out sooner rather than later.
My hunch is that such a show of force, obviously Allah's will like everything else, would nip TROP in the bud.
It's possible she was just an easy victim to snag. Probably didn't worry about her security having been in the country that long and married to an Iraqi and so took no precautions. Not that precautions help much when terrorists are determined to get you, but I am still guessing that this poor woman was just an easy target.
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