Zoo Station

I have avoided making any mention of the individual atrocities happening in Iraq on this blog. I am making an exception for this. The BBC is reporting that Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped head of CARE in Iraq, has been executed by her kidnappers. This is a woman who spent the last 30 years as an aid worker in Iraq, was an Iraqi citizen, and probably cared more about the Arab world than most. To execute an aid worker whose only crime was to be in Iraq to help Iraqis shows you how fucked up these losers who claim to be defending Iraq against the 'infidels' truly are.

If there ever needed to be a case made for the Americans to somehow secure Iraq (mission impossible perhaps?), this is it.

UPDATE: Here are some reactions from the Iraqis themselves to Mrs Hassan's murder.