In yesterday's Independent, Robert Fisk writes a revealing sentence on why he thinks Margaret Hassan might have been murdered. The article is behind a subscription requirement, but you can read it here (via Tim Blair). It seems that someone may have had Hassan killed in order to persuade people of the less than humane character of the Iraqi 'insurgency':
[I]f anyone doubted the murderous nature of the insurgents, what better way to prove their viciousness than to produce evidence of Margaret Hassan's murder?Isn't the 'kidnapping and beheading' to which Fisk himself refers in the article - to say nothing of suicide and other bombings in which Iraqis have often been the most numerous victims - sign enough of these qualities?