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At Death’s Door
American Woman Travels Door to Door to Count Iraqi Casualties

By David Wright
ABC News.com

Marla Ruzicka, from the San Francisco Bay Area, has been in post-war Baghdad, doing a headcount of the Iraqi injured and the dead. (ABCNEWS.COM)

B A G H D A D, Iraq, May 28— The Pentagon keeps a precise count of U.S. casualties in the war in Iraq. But the question of how many Iraqis lost their lives remains as mysterious as the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein or the location of all those weapons of mass destruction.

Marla Ruzicka, 26, from the San Francisco Bay Area, has been in Baghdad since the day Saddam's statue fell in the city center. She has been doing a headcount of the Iraqi injured and the dead. She's found more than she expected.

She has formed her own nonprofit organization, called the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, or CIVIC. She has organized 150 surveyors to fan out across Iraq. So far, they say they have documented 620 civilian deaths in Baghdad, 256 in Najaf, 425 in Karbala and as many as 1,100 in Nasiriyah. It is only a preliminary count.

"Somewhere between 5,000 to 10,000 people died in this conflict," Ruzicka said.

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Guess we showed them huh.

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posted by BadGimp @ 6:01 PM