http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/18/international/middleeast/18american.html
U.S. Aid Worker Dies in Her Line of Duty
By ROBERT F. WORTH
Published: April 18, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 17 - In the locked-down world of Western journalists and government officials in Iraq, it was impossible not to notice Marla Ruzicka.
A 28-year-old Californian with blond hair and an electric smile, she ran a one-woman aid group. She distributed aid to orphaned Iraqi children and cajoled reporters to write about innocent civilians caught in cross-fires.
On Saturday afternoon, Ms. Ruzicka became a casualty herself. A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of security contractors that was passing near her car on the airport road in Baghdad, killing her and her Iraqi driver, United States Embassy officials in Baghdad said.
Ms. Ruzicka had worked in Afghanistan as well as Iraq. She took great risks, often traveling to talk to Iraqis without the guards and armored cars that reporters here tend to rely on. She also had an extraordinary gift for promoting her cause, whether in Iraq or Washington.
She worked with Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, to get $2.5 million for civilian victims in Afghanistan, and later, $10 million for victims in Iraq. Last week another $10 million was authorized for the Iraq program.
"She was the one that persuaded us," Mr. Leahy said Sunday afternoon in a telephone interview. "Here's someone who at 28 years old did more than most people do in a lifetime."
Ms. Ruzicka was deceptively girlish in person. She often arranged gatherings for the foreign correspondents here and in Afghanistan. She was in her element at the gatherings, with her distinctive giggle always audible over the music. But she always used the occasions to lobby reporters to write about the things that mattered to her.
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You forgot to put a barf alert on that NYT eulogy to their favorite marxist liar. Ooh, did the NYT forget to mention her nearly life-long affiliation with far-left, anti-American groups? Or her public suggestion that terrorists target conservatives? Probably just an oversight.
She had two of them, actually.
Now she has zero. Oh well, karma'll get you every time. Pass the potatoes, please.