Sunday, April 17, 2005

Car Bomb Kills American Activist

Iraq Car Bomb Kills American Activist - Yahoo! News
Anti-war activist and American citizen dies from insurgent's bomb.
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.
Want to know more about Marla Ruzicka? Read here.

UPDATE: More information here.

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