Iraqi Jailed For Life For Killing Aid Worker

(RFE/RL) June 5, 2006 -- A Baghdad court today sentenced an Iraqi man to life in prison after he was convicted of abducting and killing an Iraqi-British aid worker, Margaret Hassan.

Two other defendants in the case were freed.


No group had claimed responsibility for the killing of Hassan in 2004.


(Reuters, dpa)

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