Posted on 04/24/2005 12:18:47 AM PDT by TNinga
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The 12-year-old orphan remembers Marla Ruzicka as a smiling blonde apparition who gave him a glass of juice and changed his clothes when bullet splinters in his spine made it painful to move and walking virtually impossible. The American activist took up Rakan Hassan's cause, securing a surgeon in the United States to perform the operation he needs to recover from the attack that killed his parents. But Ruzicka died before she could complete her mission, cut down by the same relentless violence that has shattered the lives of the many Iraqis she tried to help.
You're new. You should use the search function. This was posted elsewhere. And it's certainly not breaking news.
Marla would get a lot more sympathy from me as a "humanitarian" if she wasn't in Iraq prior to the war working to prop up Saddam then hanging around after just to drum up opposition to America.
It's a shame some of the people who took her reports seriously mistook her for an enemy civilian.
Associated Press Writer Sindbad Ahmed Shawkat in Tal Afar contributed to this report.
On the Net:
http://www.civicworldwide.org
Civic's the late Ruzicka's organization and they are looking for donations to keep their staff paid now since she became a causality of the Iraqi war. How ironic that she went over to find civilian Iraqi causalties caused by the U.S. military, and she became a civilian causlity of Muslim terrorists. She wasn't there to count the civilians killed by Muslim terrorists, but now she's another one and she can't blame the U.S. military this time.
Also, the AP is miffed because one of their photographers was killed Thursday in Iraq. An American patrol was targeted by terrorists, a bomb went off, two AP camera men just happened to be there right at the time, and one was shot to death. AP swears it will research the facts of his death thoroughly, and they are also putting out fund-raising puff pieces like this about that Casto-loving Ruzicka.
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