Based on this pattern, Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped director of CARE International in Baghdad may not be harmed!
Sonia Shah, Special Correspondent
October 23, 2004

The Iraqi kidnappers normally do not harm the hostages whose face is not covered while shown on a video tape. Based on this pattern, Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped director of CARE International in Baghdad may not be harmed. 

Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped director of CARE International in Baghdad, has been seen on videotape aired by Al-Jazeera pleading for her life. In the video aired Friday by the Arabic-language TV channel, 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 to die like (Kenneth) Bigley. I beg of you, I beg of you." Bigley, a British engineer, was beheaded two weeks ago by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group. It is not known who has kidnapped Hassan. Hassan was kidnapped early Tuesday. Her captors have given no demands or explanations as to why she was snatched. In the wake of her kidnapping, CARE International suspended its humanitarian operations in Iraq. On Thursday, Hassan's Iraqi husband said he was having a hard time understanding why she was abducted.