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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.

IT WAS ten days ago that rumours began circulating in Baghdad that Margaret Hassan had been murdered, but it was not until last Thursday that a video of her murder was given to the Arab satellite station al-Jazeera. The station decided not to broadcast the film. Instead it contacted British diplomats who sent a specialist team to the network’s headquarters in Qatar. At first the experts could not be sure it was Mrs Hassan who could be seen blindfolded and kneeling on the floor before being shot with a pistol at point blank range. One official who has seen the...

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...

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,...

MARGARET HASSAN was kidnapped for one reason - she was born in Dublin. With Ken Bigley, her captors learned how useful the Irish Government is to their cause. By insisting that Hassan is Irish and not British, Dermot and Bertie Ahern have shown yet again how wildly they misunderstand the foe that we face. Had there been no pleading with Abu Musab Al-Zarkawi for Bigley's life, Hassan would never have been targeted. Through her aid agency, Care International, she did more than most to relieve the suffering of Iraq during Saddam's misrule. But once these so-called "insurgents" realised the lengths...

Trembling, haggard and weeping into a tissue, Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped British aid worker who has spent nearly half her life delivering food and medicine in Iraq, begged Britain on Friday to help save her by withdrawing its troops, saying these "might be my last hours." The gaunt, 59-year-old woman's wrenching televised statement — delivered in between sobs — puts new political pressure on Prime Minister Tony Blair's government, a day after it agreed to a U.S. request to transfer 850 British soldiers from southern Iraq to the Baghdad area to free American forces for new offensives against insurgents. "Please...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped director of CARE International in Baghdad, has been seen on a videotape aired by Al-Jazeera pleading for her life. In the video aired Friday by the Arabic-language TV channel, an unblindfolded Hassan is speaking to the camera, sobbing and crying. "Please help me, please help me, these might be my last hours.... Please help me, please British people ask Mr. (British Prime Minister Tony) Blair to pull the troops from Iraq and not bring them to Baghdad. "Please, please I beg of you, the British people, to help me. I don't want...

100 casualties' in Iraq attack A mortar attack on an Iraqi National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad has caused many casualties, Iraqi officials have said. There is so far no clear breakdown on the number of dead, but more than 100 people are believed to have been killed or injured, the officials said. Six mortar rounds fell on the building in Mashahidan, 40km (25 miles) from the Iraqi capital, AP news agency said. Two American field hospitals are treating the wounded. US Blackhawk helicopters are also helping to evacuated the injured, AP reported. Iraq's fledgling security forces have been a...