The apparent murder in Iraq of Margaret Hassan, head of CARE International in Baghdad, who was British and Irish and married to an Iraqi, underlines the fact that aid work is one of the most dangerous professions in the world. Mrs Hassan, who had lived in Iraq for 30 years and had run CARE'S life-saving activities there for 13, was kidnapped in Baghdad a month ago. She was being held by an unnamed but presumably fundamentalist Islamist group that was evidently indifferent to her reputation for helping ordinary Iraqis and to her opposition to America's invasion.
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