Doctoral Student in Controversial Army Program Dies in Baghdad Blast

Nicole Suveges, a doctoral student in political science at the Johns Hopkins University, was killed on Tuesday in a bombing in the Sadr City district of Baghdad.

It was the second fatal attack in less than two months for the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System, a program that embeds social scientists within military units. Ms. Suveges was serving as a civilian employee of the program, assisting the Army's Third Brigade Combat Team.

Six Iraqi civilians, two U.S.

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