[Screaming_Gerbil]

Injured Iraqis confer with Marla Ruzicka in Baghdad.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1462967,00.html

...On the day she died, on Iraq's most dangerous road, she had been out talking to bereaved families. Her driver/translator, Faiz Al Salaam, who also died, worked with her for almost two years...

...They were driving, by chance, near a convoy of foreign contractors' vehicles, which were the bomber's target. Dressed in a long black abbaya , the head-to-toe covering which most western women now wear in Baghdad as protection, Marla used an ordinary car...

She was killed by terrorists in Iraq who are trying to kill Americans, and didn't care if a civilian car was in between them and their targets.

[Southack]

"She was killed by terrorists in Iraq who are trying to kill Americans, and didn't care if a civilian car was in between them and their targets."

She was near terrorists for her entire time in Iraq, and $50 says that she knew the terrorist who killed her. $50 more says that she was the spotter for that car bomber, or part of a plan to distract convoy security (you know, that whole "blonde drives by and waves and smiles" sort of trick).