Robert Fisk: "Who Really Killed Margaret Hassan ?"

Robert Fisk: "Who Really Killed Margaret Hassan ?"

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(Robert Fisk: The most decorated British foreign correspondent, Fisk has been based in the Middle East for the last twenty-five years, and his knowledge of the area is unparalleled.Robert Fisk is an internationally recognized journalist for the Independent of London. Read here on Profile of Robert Fisk)

"Who killed Margaret Hassan? " That is the question her friends - and, quite possibly, the Iraqi insurgents - will be asking.

This Anglo-Irish woman held an Iraqi passport.

She had lived in Iraq for 30 years, she had dedicated her life to the welfare of Iraqis in need.

She spoke fluent Arabic and could explain her work to her captors in their own language.

She hated the United Nations sanctions and opposed the Anglo-American invasion.

I remember Margaret arguing with doctors and truck drivers over a lorry-load of medicines for Iraq's children's cancer wards in 1998. She smiled, cajoled and pleaded to get these leukemia drugs to Basra and Mosul.

For the bureaucrats and the Western leaders who on Wednesday will express their outrage and sorrow at her reported death, she had nothing but scorn.

Yes, she knew the risks.

Margaret Hassan was well aware that many Iraqi women had been kidnapped, raped, ransomed or murdered by the Baghdad mafia.

Because she is a Western woman - the first to be abducted and apparently murdered - we forget how many Iraqi women have already suffered this terrible fate; largely unreported in a world which counts dead American soldiers but ignores the fatalities among those with darker skins and browner eyes and a different religion, whom we claimed to have liberated.

And now let's remember the other, earlier videos.

Margaret Hassan crying.

Margaret Hassan fainting

Margaret Hassan having water thrown over her face to revive her.

Margaret Hassan crying again, pleading for the withdrawal of the Black Watch regiment from the Euphrates River.

In the background of these appalling pictures:

There were none of the usual Islamic banners.

There were none of the usual armed and hooded men.

There were no Qur'anic recitations.

And when it percolated through to Fallujah and Ramadi that the mere act of kidnapping Hassan was close to heresy, the combined resistance groups of Fallujah - and the message genuinely came from them - demanded her release.

So, incredibly, did Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaeda man whom the Americans falsely claimed was leading the Iraqi insurrection, but who has definitely been involved in the kidnappings and beheadings.

Other abducted women were freed when their captors recognized their innocence.

If anyone doubted the murderous nature of the insurgents, what better way to prove their viciousness than to produce evidence of Margaret Hassan's murder?

What more ruthless way could there be of demonstrating to the world that the U.S. and Interim Prime Minister Iyad Alawi's tinpot army were fighting "evil" in Fallujah and the other Iraqi cities?

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"Who Killed Margaret Hassan? I Know "

by
Sam Hamod
(Dr. Sam Hamod is the editor of www.todaysalternativenews.com and an expert on the Middle East and Islam)

She stood up to Saddam Hussein and to the U.S.military, she wanted only to help the people of her adopted country.

We also do NOT believe any Muslims did this.

There is an dictum in the Qur'an which forbids the killing of women. Also, Muslims and Iraqis had nothing to gain by killing this innocent, God-like, saint of a woman.

The Iraqi resistance groups had nothing to gain by killing a woman who was trying to help the Iraqi people.

Thus, we must look in the direction of those who had the most to gain by making the Iraqi resistance look bestial, cruel and vicious. In this case, the Americans, Allawi and the Israelis, all of whom are running rampant through Iraq had the most to gain.

By these nefarious deed, they could blame the Iraqi resistance fighters, or that myth that America has created, the famous "Zarqawi" or even a "Bin Laden group."

The Iraqis knew the British would not pull out, that there was nothing to gain by holding this non-political person as a prisoner.

Most experts have concluded long ago, the Zarqawi pictured is not the real Zarqawi and is an American myth concocted to justify destroying Fallujah and other Iraqi cities and the civilians therein.

In this case, even the alleged Zarqawi group called for her release and asked that she be turned over to them.

Because it was most likely a zionist, American or Allawi plot, they did not dare come close to real resistance fighters, but kept her apart from them so that they could kill her and blame the Iraqi resistance.

All the Iraqi resistance groups called for her release and it makes no sense that Iraqi resistance groups or their allies would have killed her.

No, it had to be some group that wanted to kill her and use her death to "show the world that the Iraqi resistance fighters are devils," "that they would kill this angel of mercy shows how cruel and bestial they are."

The American media points it fingers at Iraqi resistance groups, or Muslim groups, neither of them would do such a thing to a person who had been aiding them for decades.

Even her husband, in an interview broadcast on short wave radio, said he was sure it was NOT Iraqi fighters, but most likely American mercenaries, American dark ops, Allawi's people or Israelis.

We also condemn the American media for not asking hard questions or using one iota of intelligence t figure this murder out.

We are also sick of the "embedded journalists" who are nothing but flacks for lying military commanders, for Allawi and for the Bush propaganda machine--because of their cowardly lies and because of their unwillingness to search for the truth; we see them as guilty of being complicituous in this dreadful execution.

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