Even in the bloodshed and turmoil of post-invasion Iraq, the kidnapping of Margaret Hassan, head of Care International in Iraq, is incomprehensible. Margaret Hassan fell in love with Iraq more than 30 years ago, when she travelled there as a young bride with her Iraqi husband Taheen Ali Hassan. They had met while studying in London and the former Margaret Fitzsimmons, from Dublin in the "land of a thousand welcomes", fell in love for a second time with Baghdad - formerly Madinat al Salam: City of Peace - and the land known through time as “the cradle of civilisation”.
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A Personal Tale,
by Felicity Arbuthnot,
plus related articles from
CARE and others ...
A Personal Tale,
by Felicity Arbuthnot,
plus related articles from
CARE and others ...