The husband of the kidnapped director of CARE International made a plea in Baghdad Thursday for her release, saying she has spent her life helping Iraqis. Margaret Hassan, the head of operations in Iraq for the international charity, was abducted on her way to work early Tuesday by gunmen who blocked her route and dragged the driver and a companion from the car, said her husband Tahseen Ali Hassan. During a press conference, Hassan, an Iraqi national, addressed the kidnappers, saying: "Release my wife. She's Iraqi; she's working for a humanitarian organization and I ask you to release her." Hassan, who is in her early 60s, has worked in Iraq for three decades and is among the most widely known humanitarian officials in the Middle East.
