One of Slain U.S. Activist's Last Campaigns Stalls After Her Death - Marla

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBYUPHIV7E.html

<snip>A one-woman human rights movement, Ruzicka was instrumental in securing millions of dollars in aid for distribution in Iraq. She'd been traveling to and from the country since U.S.-led forces invaded in March 2003, often going door-to-door to meet wounded Iraqis and collect the figures for her surveys on the number hurt and killed.

She badgered the military for numbers and Washington for money. She sweet-talked journalists and soldiers alike into helping her out. And everyone got a hug.

Ruzicka refused to accept the official line that the U.S. military does not keep track of civilian casualties, writing in an op-ed piece the week before she was killed that this position "outraged the Arab world and damaged the U.S. claim that its forces go to great lengths to minimize civilian casualties."

An Associated Press survey of deaths in the first 12 months of the occupation found that more than 5,000 Iraqis died violently in just Baghdad and three provinces. Since then, however, neither U.S. nor Iraqi officials have produced a complete tally.

Ruzicka thought she was close to uncovering the figures.

"Recently, I obtained statistics on civilian casualties from a high-ranking U.S. military official. The numbers were for Baghdad only, for a short period, during a relatively quiet time," she wrote in the article published posthumously in USA Today and posted on her Web site.

The U.S. military did not immediately respond to her claims.

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[TahitiNut]

1. It's people like her I think of when I hear the word "hero."

R.I.P. :cry:

[leftchick]

2. Now we know why she was killed

and it was no accident.

RIP Marla. You were an angel on earth. :(

[funkybutt]

3. RIP Marla, you epitomize all that is good about humanity

The world was a better place with you in it and you will be missed. I can still see your beautiful smile from the photo that was briefly shown on the news the day of your death. You were a hero among heros.

[frictionlessO]

4. Wish we all could be so brave as this one...

especially me.

[Triana]

5. She uncovered the TRUTH that bu$hit and his death for oil machinery...

...will NEVER admit to and the truth they are perpetually trying to hide from the American People.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/04/22/notes042205.DTL&type=printable

[kineneb]

6. Her memorial service is today

about 30 miles from me, in Lakeport. Peace be with you, Bodhisattva Marla.

[Judi Lynn]

7. It would take a very cold heart to kill this young woman, but someone

certainly did it without a second thought, apparently.

Here's touching insight from someone who knew her in California. The final paragraph:

When Marla returned from that first pivotal visit to Afghanistan, a reporter asked her if she wanted to go back. She answered without hesitation, with her characteristic passion, "I want to go back every second. Yes, I will go back, or my heart will stop beating."

http://www.alternet.org/story/21779/

[AndyTiedye]

8. Her Death Was The U.S. Military's Response to Her Claims

The U.S. military did not immediately respond to her claims.

They responded all right. They killed her.

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. What proof do you have that US servicemen killed her?

:shrug:

[Zorra]

11. True; it was probably a covert non-military neocon intelligence group

that murdered her.

I'm sure that there are a few RW deathsquads out there that we don't know about that specialize in these type of assassinations.

That would be my first guess.

Oh, yeah, Bush and/or members of the neocon hierarchy would NEVER order anything like that, would they?

And they would NEVER lie about WMD in order to falsely justify a pre-emptive invasion in order to start a war for oil and war profits, would they?
:shrug:

[shance]

12. What proof do you have that she WASNT Freddie?

n/t

[Freddie Stubbs]

13. The same proof that it wasn't Howard Dean

[shance]

14. Ive heard Elvis Pressley has an underground intelligence sting network

working over there Freddie.

If I were you, I'd look into it.

Someone said the King was spotted in Baghdad giving out jelly doughnuts to the kids.

Bet its all just a cover up for his Jailhouse network, dont you?

[Wilms]

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