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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: NormsRevenge
""The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love." Ernesto Che Guevara
This is one of Marla's favorite quotes. She had enough love to cover the planet." In other words, she actively wanted a planet-wide Revolution.
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:49:34 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: jimbo123
We had Crunch...MS Corrie
Splat...the war protestor that fell off the Bay Bridge
Now we have Reeses
To: doug from upland; All
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:51:20 PM PDT
by
hipaatwo
(When you're in trouble you want all your friends around you...preferably armed!)
Comment #84 Removed by Moderator
To: NormsRevenge
Here's the original "On-the-spot report from Florida" with her "Maybe they're [Republicans] the ones who should be on the terrorist lists comment as posted on
World Socialist Web Site From Nov. 2000.
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:52:18 PM PDT
by
Texas_Jarhead
(To hell with Mexico, its policies, and its leaders)
To: jimbo123
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:52:24 PM PDT
by
teldon30
To: jimbo123
There is a theory that "highly educated" folks make bigger, dumber mistakes than lesser educated people. I nominate Hillary as her replacement in Iraq.
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:53:30 PM PDT
by
Waco
To: Faraday
Apparently she was an unwilling human shield.
The homicide bomber tried to attack a U.S. military convoy but ended up blowing her car up instead.
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:53:53 PM PDT
by
jimbo123
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To: Great Prophet Zarquon
Before you 'plonk' anyone else, would you care to comment on Comrade Ruzicka's anti-American activities?
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:53:59 PM PDT
by
Wormwood
(Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
Comment #91 Removed by Moderator
To: jimbo123
The homicide bomber tried to attack a U.S. military convoy but ended up blowing her car up instead.In other words:
Win/Win
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:55:17 PM PDT
by
Wormwood
(Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
Comment #93 Removed by Moderator
To: All
Most of the civilian American deaths have been "Special Flowers", folks that ignore the urgings of our Gov't that its not quite safe over there and wind up having someting tragic happen to them. Unlike Nick Berg, this was someone with a clear cut, anti-american agenda.
I can't respect someone for having convictions alone. The Nazis had convictions.
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:57:00 PM PDT
by
proust
(while Terri starves, the Democrats salivate)
To: Great Prophet Zarquon
Can you not salute a courageous enemy?Actually, I can.
"Dear Marla Ruzicka: May flights of Type-II demons speed you to your fiery rest, you terrorist-enabling useful idiot.
Amen"
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:58:10 PM PDT
by
Wormwood
(Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
To: Archie Bunker on steroids
Where's your picture?? Just damn.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:58:36 PM PDT
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
Comment #97 Removed by Moderator
To: teldon30
"Ruzicka's organization operates on an annual budget of about $100,000, funded now in large part by the Open Society Institute, a George Soros organization, with low-cost rental space provided by Human Rights Watch." There's Soros, right in your link. Leahy, too.
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:58:50 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: jimbo123
She wasn't a humanitarian. She was a useful idiot. It was poetic justice, not a tragedy.
I find it hilarious. Does this qualify as Friendly Fire?
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:59:22 PM PDT
by
GreenOgre
(I'm an inch away from channelling Sam Kinneson.)
To: cripplecreek
I do not have any sympathy for her. She went there to slam the US and our military. I'll let God decide where she ends up. I'll save my sympathy for our soldiers.
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posted on
04/17/2005 5:59:26 PM PDT
by
processing please hold
(Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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