I just read that Margaret Hassan, the director of CARE International's Iraqi operation was beheaded in Iraq by the insurgents who had taken her captive. Once again these militants demonstrate that they have no morality, no compassion, but only evil and hatred in their hearts. That they would behead a woman of a well-respected international aid organization is inconceivable; that they would bomb the UN and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, perhaps even more so.

The people of Iraq and the world weep over the death of such a great woman, and her killers have gained nothing but eternal damnation.