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What a glaring double standard. The Arab world is enraged over the shooting of a wounded, unarmed Iraqi insurgent by a uniformed US soldier. There is no similar outrage for Margaret Hassan. Is it because she was an Anglo, a woman, or because a Muslim killed her? The video of the soldier shooting is proof, we are told, of America’s evil. And the kidnapping, torture and murder of Mrs. Hassan is then proof of what? That America is evil! Muslims wouldn’t do that unless evil America forced their hand. Bombing children, defiling mosques, kidnapping civilians, executing poor workers and cleaning...

Sydney (AsiaNews/Afp) - The mutilated body of a Caucasian woman found in the Iraqi city of Fallujah earlier this week appears to be that of missing aid worker Margaret Hassan, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said on Thursday. Mr Howard told parliament that there was every indication that Hassan was also the woman who appeared in a video received by Al-Jazeera on Tuesday showing an armed man shooting at a blind-folded woman. "The body found in Fallujah appears to have been Margaret's and the video of the execution of a Western woman appears, on all the available information, to...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Arabic television Al Jazeera said on Tuesday it will not air a video showing a gunman killing a woman, believed to be British-Iraqi hostage Margaret Hassan. "We will not air the tape because we respect the audience's feelings," said an Al Jazeera official, whose channel earlier announced it had received a tape of the killing. "We can not be certain that the woman is Margaret Hassan," he added.

Yahoo! Alerts Breaking News Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 9:24 AM PST (Reuters) Video appears to show killing of Iraq aid worker Margaret Hassan, husband says.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq (news - web sites)'s military said on Wednesday it had found houses in northern Falluja where hostages had been held and killed by their militant kidnappers, and records of those abducted. "We have found hostage slaughterhouses in Falluja that were used by these people and the black clothing that they used to wear to identify themselves," newly appointed provincial military governor Major-General Abdul-Qader Jassim said. Jassim, briefing reporters at the main U.S. military base outside the city that thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops are fighting to wrest from rebel control, said "hundreds" of CDs and...

DUBLIN, Ireland A new videotape of a high-ranking aid worker kidnapped in Iraq sets some deadlines and is reportedly too graphic for one T-V station to broadcast. The video of relief worker Margaret Hassan reportedly shows her again pleading for her life. Ireland's premier says it warns of dangerous and serious deadlines, but he isn't giving any details about possible demands or timelines.

The Iraqi boy who wants to swap places with HassanWhen Mohammad Hamdan, 18, stepped on an unexploded cluster bomb while playing football near his home in Baghdad last year, his active life appeared to have come to an abrupt end. He was unable to walk after suffering serious injuries to his upper back and left lung, tears to the stomach and intestine and compression of the spinal cord. “I just lay there like a vegetable, a soul in this life unable to move, talk or feel,” he said. It was then that Margaret Hassan, 59, the Dublin-born charity worker abducted...

The moment when Saddam Hussein's faithful minister of information, Mohammad Said Sahhaf, finally accepted that the game was up is revealed today by The Telegraph. In the dying days of the regime the indefatigable minister, dubbed "Comical Ali", had haunted a radio studio in Baghdad, urging engineers to carry on pumping out Saddam's propaganda. Even after the statue of Saddam was toppled on April 9, Mr Sahhaf refused to accept that Saddam's era was over. But in the early hours of April 10, with the sound of battle raging ever closer to the studio, in the al-Adhamiyah district, even Mr...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- Prince Hassan's hope to visit Iraq soon is sparking fresh speculation the one-time heir to the Jordanian throne -- unceremoniously dumped by his dying brother after three decades of grooming -- is a prince in search of a kingdom. An aide to the prince denied the talk Monday, but such concerns have in the past forced Hassan's nephew, King Abdullah II, to insist Jordan's royal family has no designs on ruling neighboring Iraq. Last week, Hassan told Al-Arabiya satellite channel that he plans a visit to Baghdad "soon" to try to mediate political disputes among...

Did Nichols and Yousef meet? Closer analysis of Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef timelines creates a compelling, if still circumstantial, case — and offers clues to where the smoking guns may be found By J.M. BERGER INTELWIRE.com In November 1994, Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef both walked on the grounds of the same college campus in the Philippines. Whether their paths crossed is a question that still dogs researchers. But it's increasingly clear that what separates their respective itineraries is sometimes a matter of yards, feet or even inches, within a span of days, hours and sometimes mere minutes. They...

<p>BLANTYRE, Malawi  — Five men suspected of running charities that funneled money to Al Qaeda have been arrested in Malawi and were to be deported from the southern African nation, intelligence officials said Monday.</p> <p>The men, all foreigners, were arrested Sunday night in the southern city of Blantyre in a joint operation involving the CIA and Malawi's National Intelligence Bureau, the intelligence officials said.</p>

Saddam killed his top commander as Marines stormed Baghdad SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COMSunday, May 4, 2003 LONDON — Iraqi President Saddam Hussein killed his leading military commander on charges of treason as U.S. forces captured Baghdad. The London-based A-Sharq Al Awsat daily said Saddam and his younger son, Qusay, executed Gen. Seif Eddin Al Rawi on April 8. The newspaper said Al Rawi, commander of the elite Republican Guards, was accused of treason and shot in the head and back. Al Rawi was summoned by Saddam and executed on the day U.S. marines captured the Iraqi capital. The newspaper...

Italian cell part of wider European terror web Its contacts, however, extended to Iran, Malaysia and Afghanistan. Their aim - hit American targets PARIS - A suspected terrorist cell broken up recently in Italy is believed to be part of a wider European network with contacts in Iran, Malaysia and Afghanistan that is suspected of plotting attacks on American targets. Five North Africans were arrested on Thursday and Friday in Milan, Naples, San Remo and the island of Malta. A sixth is at large and a seventh, the alleged leader, is in a British jail. Italian authorities said their activities...

A federal judge in Wilmington has ordered an illegal Pakistani immigrant to be held without bail. But U. S. Magistrate Judge Mary Pat Thynge says there is no proof Raza Khan is involved in any terrorist activities. His attorney did admit that his client did overstay his visa and was wrongly in possession of firearms as an illegal alien. Khan was arrested Monday after he had requested maps of a hunting area near a nuclear power plant.

Thursday October 18 11:54 PM ET Pakistani Pleads Not Guilty in Delaware Arms Case By Rita Farrell WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - A Pakistani man with an expired visa pleaded not guilty in federal court in Delaware on Thursday to illegal possession of firearms, charges for which he has been imprisoned for nearly a month. His roommate and fellow Pakistani, Syed Hassan, 23, told Reuters that Raza Nasir Khan was arrested on Sept. 25 because of the hijack attacks on New York and Washington two weeks earlier. ``This is because of Raza's skin color and his goatee. He looks more like ...

INS detainee anthrax suspect TRACY KENNEDY, Register Citizen Staff December 06, 2001 HARTFORD - A Hartford judge set bail Wednesday for one of four local men detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service since Nov. 25 for their suspected involvement in the deadly national anthrax mailings. At Immigration Court, Judge Michael W. Straus ordered Mohammed I. Khan, 46, of Torrington, to pay $12,000 bail during a hearing regarding his application for asylum. Kahn reportedly filed the application after arriving in this country from Pakistan in 1993. According to an INS representative, he had not posted the bail by late ...

<p>MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- An Egyptian man found with more than 100 forms of false identification is not suspected of having terrorist ties, authorities said Wednesday.</p> <p>Hani Hassan, 26, is being held in Morris County on fraud and public records tampering charges.</p> <p>He was arrested July 19 in Morristown after a tip to the state attorney general's office that Hassan had obtained a driver's license using false information.</p> <p>Authorities searched his Orange home, and found more than 100 forms of false identification, including Social Security cards, passports, bank account records and other documents.</p>

EDMONTON, Oct 19, 2001 (The Canadian Press via COMTEX) -- A federal lawyer has told an immigration detention review that three men nabbed in northern Alberta are being investigated regarding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. Emad Jamal Hassan, Yousef al-Amleh and Mohamadkhair Salah were arrested last week in Fort McMurray, Alta., and are now in custody in Edmonton. The trio faced detention review hearings on Wednesday. Tapes of the reviews for Hassan and Salah were released Friday. Al-Amleh's review was held in camera and the tape will not be released. During the reviews, federal lawyer ...