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.
Just great - another Leftist martyr.
God rest her soul. She was trying to give comfort to others.
Killed surveying civilian deaths.
There has to be some irony in there somewhere.
Remember Rachel Corrie -- an American nonviolent human rights protestor.
Any death is a tragedy, but...
Was she hoping the terrorists would notice she was a liberal and thereby not kill her?
Talk about irony.
Probably less painful way to go than being squished by a bulldozer.
Eh... I actually have some sympathy in this case - the deceased wasn't doing something quite as stupid as standing in front of a bulldozer. And technically, she was ministering to others...
Less funny, at any rate.
I could barely get out a chuckle, myself.
Hope that was the case, and if so you're right. But it sounds more like she was looking for evidence to blast the US.
I agree. At least this lib put her actions were her mouth was.
"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,"
Uh well genius, she wasn't a victim of war she was the victim of a terrorist.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls..........
Thoughts and prayers to her family and loved ones.
It's not what you think. She was working for Medea Benjamin, the American Communist who penned the pro-Castro Cuban Revolution book as well as who was caught giving several hundred thousand Dollars to the insurgency in Falluja.
Heck, she was probably *inside* the suicide car bomb, or else outside it nagging the Mujis to get the right wiring.
She was, in fac,t a humanitarian. Liberal or not, she was an American. God rest her soul.
Yeah, the terrorists. No other possibility if she spent 10 years working for Medea Benjamin. Nice pink head scarf she has.
According to Medea Benjamin, the people setting up car bombs are only doing so because they are resisting oppression by the Americans. It's still our fault in her eyes. But she's a few ice cubes short of a tray.
This statement by her parents says it all.
Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
U.S. Delegation Goes to Middle East With $600,000 in Aid For Fallujah Refugees
"The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love." Ernesto Che Guevara
This is one of Marla's favorite quotes
Medea Benjamin is one of the two women who interrupted a prewar Congressional hearing by screaming "inspections, not war," got arrested and hauled off, and made the front page of I believe the NYT and LAT the next day.
I wonder if the deceased was the other one. I'm thinking she was, but will research.
Thank you, that is the only appropriate response to this tragedy. May her soul find comfort.
How long until the libs start screaming "assassination" because she was about to "expose the true number of civilian casualties that the illegal war on the innocents of Iraq has wrought?" I'm sure the number would be "nearing 1 million" and the Bush admin. couldn't risk her exposing the "truth".
Sadly enough i know the name Medea Benjamin. In a civilized society her name shouldn't become so well known.
I guess I will not say anthing at all.
"She was trying to give comfort to others."
No. She wasn't.
She was killed trying to prove her country was evil and that liberating millions of people from tyranny was wrong.
She was killed trying to discredit the US military and the US government.
She was killed trying to make the enemy appear to be good while making her country look bad.
It's too bad that she was killed, but she had no business being there and her activities were traitorous.
Che must have really, really loved all those people for whose deaths he was responsible.
She wasn't a humanitarian. She was a useful idiot. It was poetic justice, not a tragedy.
NICE SCARF...
It's not just "IRONY", as many here are saying. I have my suspicion about why an active dissident would be in such proximity to a car bomb.
Medea Benjamin is a pro-Cuban Revolutionary.
That she and her militant Communist ilk are in Iraq can mean no good.
It was a different person, a Diane Wilson, who disrupted the Congressional hearing along with Medea Benjamin.
I won't link because I found the info at a traitorous far-left site.
I had never heard of her and didn't know she was engaged in anti-American activities. Do you have a link?
Despite her politics, you do have to give her that.
And not just any leftist martyr. "St. Marla" was amassing "photographic evidence" and "testimonials" of all the "atrocities" resulting from America's intervention -- plenty of grist for the propagandists back home.
Thanks for the info. I didn't know she worked for America-hating Benjamin.
May her anti-American ass rest in peace.
There has to be some irony in there somewhere.
You took the words right outta ma mouth. The poor darling.
This woman was doing the same civilian body count thing in Afghanistan when we were liberated those people a few years ago. She has always been an anti-American traitor and a useful idiot to our nation's enemies. Funny how she bolted Afghanistan after we freed it. If she cared about those people, why didn't she stay to help rebuild their schools?
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Why didnt she just make up a figure for how many died isnt that what the left usually does? Isnt that what the anti-cigarette people do when they say how many died from cigarettes? Just make it up , let others refute it .
Yes. You are reading it right now. Check the article at the top and some of the links posted in this thread.
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