I mentioned back in December that friends of mine at CARE had been of the opinion that the people who kidnapped Margaret Hassan were pretty stupid. I’ve seen nothing since to convince me otherwise.

If this story is true, some of these guys were still holding onto "a bag, clothing, and identity documents" belonging to Margaret.

. . .

The Guardian doesn’t deal the numbers the way BBC does (post above) but the outline of the story is similar enough that they probably got it from the same horse.