Body Found in Fallujah May Be Western Woman
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U.S. Marines (search) on Sunday found the mutilated body of what they believe was a Western woman during a sweep of a street in central Fallujah.
The body was lying in the street covered with a blood-soaked cloth. Marines fear the body may have been boobytrapped and called in dogs to sniff for explosives.
Although the body had not been examined carefully, a Marine officer said on condition of anonymity he was "80 percent sure" the victim was a Western woman.
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Two Western women are known to have been kidnapped in Iraq.
Margaret Hassan (search), 59, director of CARE international in Iraq, was abducted Oct. 19. Teresa Borcz Khalifa, 54, a Polish-born longtime resident of Iraq, was seized last month.
Kidnappers of both demanded, among other things, that foreign troops leave Iraq.
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In Warsaw, Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksander Checko said diplomats knew of the report and were seeking more information.