Robert Fisk demonstrates why LGF’s annual award for extraordinary schtoopidity on the international stage is nicknamed … fanfare, please … The Fiskie: Innocence lost. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.)

Yes, Fisk really is trying to blame the murder of CARE worker Margaret Hassan on Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.

If anyone doubted the murderous nature of the insurgents, what better way to prove their viciousness than to produce evidence of Margaret Hassan’s murder?

What more ruthless way could there be of demonstrating to the world that America and Alawi’s tinpot army was fighting “evil” in Fallujah and the other Iraqi cities that are now controlled by Washington’s enemies.

No, of course we cannot say that Alawi was involved in Margaret Hassan’s death, even though he would have hated her political views.

Just because the “Interim Prime Minister” is widely believed in Baghdad to have executed seven prisoners in the Amariya Police Station just before taking office - he denies this - should not suggest he would ever have a hand in so terrible a deed.

But the question remains: Who killed Margaret Hassan?