Hostages

UPDATE 16 Nov 04: Could Hassan already be dead?

This from the NYPost.

Marines searching for holdout guerrillas in Fallujah yesterday discovered the mutilated body of a blond woman lying in the street under a blood-soaked cloth — and officials believe it could be one of two Western women kidnapped last month. The body could not be immediately identified, but Margaret Hassan, 59, a Briton who runs Iraq's division of CARE International, and Polish-born Teresa Borcz Khalifa, 54, are the only kidnapped women who remain unaccounted for.

Hassan is a brunette, so this latest victim is almost certainly not her. It may not even be Teresa Borcz - her hair is not long at all.

News about the two French hostages is not good, although their Syrian driver has been found alive.

Hostages.

A reader, Marie, recently wrote to E-nough! asking about 'doing something' to help Hassan. Unfortunately, Marie, there is nothing to do but hope and pray that she and any other remaining hostages will be lucky. No amount of publicity, no amount of names on a petition, nothing can make animals behave like human beings.