Body found in Iraq not Margaret Hassan: Britain

LONDON, Dec 1 (AFP) - The mutilated body of a Western woman found in Iraq in mid-November was not that of Margaret Hassan, the Foreign Office said Wednesday, adding that it believed the abducted aid worker had been murdered.
Dental tests had shown that the body found by US marines in the formerly insurgent-held city of Fallujah was not that of the 59-year-old woman, a spokesman said.
Hassan, the British-Irish director of CARE International in Iraq and a longtime Baghdad resident with Iraqi citizenship, was abducted on October 19 and appeared several times in videos warning that her life was at risk.

12/01/2004 15:51 GMT - AFP