As reported in the news today Margaret Hassan has been executed.

Now this wasn’t really a surprise to most people I’m sure, how many people kidnapped in Iraq haven’t ended up dead; but time it truely was pointless.

Margaret Hassan was British-born but she was an Iraqi citizen. She was married to an Iraqi and had lived in the country for over 30 years dedicating a large portion of her life to the Iraqi people working with charities over there delivering aid to those in need of it.

I know there was probably no chance at all of her getting away from her captors alive, but this is upsetting news. They killed one of their own, for nothing at all.