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Iraq Car Bomb Kills American Activist
Associated Press ^ | 4/17/05 | Associated Press

Posted on 04/17/2005 5:10:12 PM PDT by jimbo123

SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who founded a humanitarian group to aid civilian casualties in Iraq has died in a car bombing in Baghdad, officials said Sunday.

Marla Ruzicka, founder of Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, died Saturday in the blast, which also killed an Iraqi and another foreigner, officials said. She had been in Iraq conducting door-to-door surveys trying to determine the number of civilian casualties in the country.

Ruzicka, 28, founded CIVIC in 2003 to "mitigate the impact of the conflict and its aftermath on the people of Iraq by ensuring that timely and effective life-saving assistance is provided to those in need," according to the group's Web site.

Ruzicka's parents said Sunday they were notified of her death just hours after the explosion. U.S. Embassy officials publicly released Ruzicka's name Sunday.

"We've been very worried about her but we know better than to tell our children not to do anything. We were supportive and just reminded her to be careful," said her mother, Nancy Ruzicka, of Lakeport.

She said her daughter had left her a telephone message the night before her death that said, "Mom and dad, I love you. I'm OK."

"She cared about people and gave people her love and help," Nancy Ruzicka said. "I'll remember the love she spread around the world and the good ambassador that she was for her country."

Ruzicka got her start working for non-governmental organizations 10 years ago at the San Francisco-based human rights group Global Exchange.

"It's a terrible tragedy and a tragic irony that somebody who devoted her life to helping the victims of war would herself become a victim of war," said Medea Benjamin, the group's director.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: carbombing; civic; codepink; globalexchange; hateamericafilth; hatingamerica; humanshields; iraq; marlaruzicka; medeabenjamin; otheirony; ruzicka; soros; usefulidiots
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To: Great Prophet Zarquon

" Oh, but she's a Commie slut and we're all glad we're dead, so never mind..... right?"

Hey! Moron! Speak for yourself. Do not put words in my mouth. I wrote no such thing and I find your accusation both tasteless and disgusting. Please stop communicating with me. Thank you.


321 posted on 04/18/2005 5:18:16 PM PDT by Poser (Joining Belly Girl in the Pajamahadeen)
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To: pbrown

That's rediculous! All she was doing was putting Christ's words into action. Can you tell me which Iraqi children he would deny food or medical care? Did Christ not admonish ALL of us to help those in need, even those who may have been our enemies? Iraqi children are not the enemy, the terrorists are, and they killed her because she was helpjng people and in turn, making them look bad. You need to rethink your position on Christianity if you consider yourself one!


322 posted on 04/18/2005 5:39:46 PM PDT by Dubya_4ever_USA
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To: weldgophardline

ping


324 posted on 04/18/2005 5:46:28 PM PDT by Trteamer ( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
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To: Great Prophet Zarquon
Glad to see I'm not the only "stupid" one out there

I never said you were stupid.

Oh, but she's a Commie slut and we're all glad we're dead, so never mind..... right?

I'm glad I'm not dead, and I'm not glad that she's dead...I don't know if she was a commie slut, and I don't really care either way. She's dead and I'm not. I'm not a commie slut either. Just sluttish at certain times....

FReegards,

FMCDH(BITS)

326 posted on 04/18/2005 6:03:43 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: jimbo123

What kind of car did the terrorists use? Was it Ford, GM, Honda, Toyota, Yugo?

Will her parents and sympathizers sue the car company?


328 posted on 04/18/2005 6:11:05 PM PDT by Alouette (If I owned Hell and I owned Brooklyn, I'd live in Hell and rent out Brooklyn.)
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To: jimbo123

A door to door activist in a land where all the terrorists haven't been weeded out yet?
I guess ideals and brain cells don't always run in pairs.

May she RIP.


329 posted on 04/18/2005 6:12:56 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Great Prophet Zarquon

What you meant was that we were glad she was dead. I'll have to figure out how to ploink a DUmmie Troll on FR.


330 posted on 04/18/2005 8:05:19 PM PDT by Poser (Joining Belly Girl in the Pajamahadeen)
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To: Great Prophet Zarquon

Welcome to FR... Troll


332 posted on 04/18/2005 8:24:59 PM PDT by Poser (Joining Belly Girl in the Pajamahadeen)
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To: Poser
You are way too kind to this late whack job. She is a traitor. I'm glad she's dead. There, someone said it. I'm glad the traitor is dead. More traitors should follow in her footsteps. Hey people, there is a freaking war going on here! When the bad guys do the dirty work for us I'll smile and know deep in the cockles of my heart God has a wonderful sense of humor. :-)
333 posted on 04/18/2005 11:04:53 PM PDT by GreenOgre (I'm an inch away from channelling Sam Kinneson.)
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To: seamole
"...maybe the CIA?"

Nice catch, sm. Looks like she got one figure right.

Now, could you link me to your source for the claim that the rich and middle class are the exclusive or even the chief beneficiaries of social security, medicare and federal educational assistance?

And after you do that, will you let me know their ratio (on average) of taxes paid to benefits received -- as compared to the corresponding ratio for the poor?

334 posted on 04/19/2005 2:35:13 AM PDT by Bonaparte (Of course, it must look like an accident...)
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To: Great Prophet Zarquon
You haven't heard one word any of us have said to you. And you haven't addressed the questions I put to you either. She worshipped murderous communists, directing all her criticism and "lobbying" toward America and publicly suggesting that terrorists should target conservatives. She never retracted or reversed on any of that and continued to serve far-left organizations whose goals are inimical to individual rights and freedoms. She prattled on about 100,000 dead after 36 years of guerilla war in Guatemala, suggesting that it was all somehow America's fault. But not one word escaped her lips about the 65 million civilians murdered at the hands of the communist Chinese in far less time than that.
335 posted on 04/19/2005 2:53:20 AM PDT by Bonaparte (Of course, it must look like an accident...)
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To: Dubya_4ever_USA
"...they killed her because she was helpjng people and in turn, making them look bad."

Not according to the news reports I've been reading. According to them, her car got between a military convoy and the terrorists who were attacking that convoy. IOW, she was not a target, she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

336 posted on 04/19/2005 3:06:12 AM PDT by Bonaparte (Of course, it must look like an accident...)
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To: Dubya_4ever_USA
Google "marla ruzicka" convoy. Variations in these stories include "military convoy," "private security convoy," etc. But none of the news reports out there are suggesting that she was a target for terrorist assasination.
337 posted on 04/19/2005 3:19:10 AM PDT by Bonaparte (Of course, it must look like an accident...)
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To: Great Prophet Zarquon
"I'm just saying that it's bad form to gloat over her."

    If that's what you're saying, then say it to those who did the gloating, not to me. Take a good look at all my posts on this thread, gpz. Then look up the word "gloat."

"...she died better than most."

    She died while suggesting that every civilian stubbed toe in Iraq was America's doing. She died after devoting most of her life to attacking her own country and embracing communists and ruthless dictators like Castro -- all behind the convenient facade of "humanitarian concern." Give me a freaking break.

    Reality check: The humanitarian efforts America has made to assist Iraqi civilians dwarf anything she or her fellow travelers have done. They are the ones who demanded that we leave Saddam alone. They were the ones who were content to let the Iraqi people continue to live with the torture chambers, the rape rooms, the arbitrary arrests and imprisonments, the mass executions and all the rest.


338 posted on 04/19/2005 3:46:00 AM PDT by Bonaparte (Of course, it must look like an accident...)
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To: Great Prophet Zarquon

If our elected officials took the war and their own oaths to protect the Constitution from ALL enemies, foreign AND domestic, as seriously as they should, they would have hung this traitor before the terrorists ever got a shot at her.


339 posted on 04/19/2005 4:10:03 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Quality of life' is another name for the slippery slope into barbarism.)
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To: Bonaparte

Woodrow Wilson threw Eugene Debs, a former presidential candidate, in prison just for demonstrating for peace negotiations with Germany during World War I. No court overturned his imprisonment.

Eugene Debs. Former presidential candidate. Jailed. For demonstrating. Debs demonstrated. This traitorous b*tch did a lot more than that.

Traitors like Medea Benjamin and Gael Murphy et al should be in prison at the very least. If we were serious about this war, they would swing from the end of a rope...


340 posted on 04/19/2005 4:19:04 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Quality of life' is another name for the slippery slope into barbarism.)
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