There's been a few more beheaded since Bigley, they just aren't mentioned too much because they're not from the West. This person might have a chance seen as they are married to an Iraqi even though they are English. Although on second thoughts the way they are killing each other at the moment they probably wont give a fu*k.
Video shows kidnapped aid worker
A video of a senior charity worker who has been kidnapped in Baghdad has been broadcast on Al-Jazeera.
Margaret Hassan, who is married to an Iraqi and has lived in the country for 30 years, is head of Care International's Iraq operations.
An unnamed armed Iraqi group, which did not identify itself or give demands, said it had taken the aid worker.
Prime Minister Tony Blair condemned the kidnapping and said the government would do "whatever we can" to help.
"I think it shows you the type of people we are up against, that they are prepared to kidnap somebody like this," he said.
She has been providing humanitarian relief to the people of Iraq in a professional career spanning more than 25 years
Care International
The Foreign Office is working closely with authorities in Iraq to establish what happened.
The charity worker was kidnapped on her way to work around 0730 (0430 GMT) on Tuesday.
She looks distressed in the video and has her hands tied behind her back.
Care International UK's chief executive Geoffrey Dennis said: "We are not aware of the reasons why [she was taken]. Obviously we are doing the best we can locally to try to secure her and get her back again."
BBC correspondent in Baghdad Claire Marshall said it showed kidnappers were getting increasingly confident.
She said: "It used to be people travelling between towns, a lot of truck drivers [were taken], now it seems the kidnappers have got more and more audacious.
Straw 'very concerned'
"They are now snatching people literally just as they leave their homes and their work."
Pictures of Mrs Hassan's passport, credit and identity cards were also broadcast on the Arabic television channel Al-Jazeera.
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said he was "very concerned" adding: "Our thoughts and prayers go out to her, her family and her colleagues".
Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon described it as a "disturbing development" which "just demonstrates the depths to which these terrorists will go".
Care International is one of the largest independent global relief and development organisations in the world.
The charity operates in more than 72 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and eastern Europe.
In a statement about Mrs Hassan it said: "She has been providing humanitarian relief to the people of Iraq in a professional career spanning more than 25 years."
The latest kidnapping comes less than two weeks after British contractor Ken Bigley, 62, was beheaded.
In September two female Italian aid workers were freed after being held hostage in Iraq for three weeks.
Simona Pari and Simona Torretta were seized in their Baghdad office.
Kidnappings are a daily event in Iraq, with most victims being Iraqis themselves who are usually released in return for a ransom payment.
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