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AL JAZEERA SHOWS VIDEO OF KIDNAPPED U.S. JOURNALIST IN IRAQ (Jill Carroll)
Reuters | January 17, 2005

Posted on 01/17/2006 12:28:54 PM PST by HAL9000

Reuters -

AL JAZEERA SHOWS VIDEO OF KIDNAPPED U.S. JOURNALIST IN IRAQ


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: csm; hostages; iraq; jilcarroll; jillcarroll; journalist
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To: LauraleeBraswell

Why do articles call her a free lancer, if she works for the CSM? I am not clear on this situation.


101 posted on 01/17/2006 9:05:14 PM PST by maica (We are fighting the War for the Free World and the media is not on our side.)
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To: maica

Its time for Al-Jazeera to be added to the list of targets, they are comforting and aiding the enemy. I read a report that Al-Jazeera was transmitting codes for Al-Qaeda over its wires. If this is true, they should be taken out. A source in the news said that Al-Jazeera wouldn't tell who gave them this tape. Al-Jazeera is a legitimate target.


102 posted on 01/17/2006 9:07:27 PM PST by Btrp113Cav
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To: burzum
...she cared about Iraq.

I take it you mean she cares about the real Iraq, not that she's a terrorist sympathizer. Am I right?

103 posted on 01/17/2006 9:20:41 PM PST by BykrBayb (Impeach Judge Greer - In memory of Terri <strike>Schiavo</strike> Schindler - www.terrisfight.org)
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To: Phantom Lord
Ok, so the above is made up, but could easily be true.

Do you think Ted regrets taking that job at Al Jazeera? After all, he could be part of a big story right now.

104 posted on 01/17/2006 9:22:39 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe (Ted Koppel interviewed for Al Jazeera)
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To: HAL9000
Thirdly - it's in a totally different country. Going after Iraqi terrorists by attacking Saudi Arabia doesn't make any damn sense. It would destroy our international standing of the U.S., and our allies would abandon us.

Have to part ways here. Among Muslims, there are no "countries". There is Dar al Islam (the Islamic world) and the non-Islamic world. This has never been properly understood by us infidels, to our great detriment. Imams in every Muslim "country" agree that all of Spain for example, belongs to Islam, because Islam once ruled there. Therefore, by law, it must be retaken. This is also why to them, Israel must be destroyed and peace is an impossibility.

105 posted on 01/17/2006 9:26:17 PM PST by montag813
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To: AmishDude
Sounds like yet another setup.

I think you're wrong this time. I think she didn't take the terrorist threat seriously. If so, she was wrong, and will pay with her life. Maybe this is a scam that she's complicit in, but I don't think so.

106 posted on 01/17/2006 9:30:28 PM PST by BykrBayb (Impeach Judge Greer - In memory of Terri <strike>Schiavo</strike> Schindler - www.terrisfight.org)
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To: maica
Why do articles call her a free lancer, if she works for the CSM? I am not clear on this situation.

If she's not on the payroll, and is paid by the story, she's a freelancer. No matter how often they decide to work with her. When she's not on assignment for the CSM, she's free to pursue stories and pitch them to other publications. That differs from a staff reporter, who would assume that he CSM has first dibs on all her work.

A better wording would be that she was on assignment for the CSM, rather than "working for." Most news organizations use freelancers; some magazines are almost entirely written by freelancers, with only the editors on salary.

Kin to the freelancer is the stringer, usually someone in a place where it's not worth it to maintain a constant presence. For example, if you're a writer for an English-language paper in Yemen, you might also be a stringer for the AP.

There's not a precise definition of either term, but the freelancer typically has a closer relationship with the publication, and is more likely to take assignments, where the stringer is peddling his wares after the s--- hits the fan.

The staff/freelancer/stringer distinction is pretty much the same whether you're talking about writing, photos or video.

107 posted on 01/17/2006 9:48:35 PM PST by ReignOfError
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To: north_georgia_republican

I was about to have a midnight snack. Thanks for ruining my appetite. ; )


108 posted on 01/17/2006 9:51:34 PM PST by BykrBayb (Impeach Judge Greer - In memory of Terri <strike>Schiavo</strike> Schindler - www.terrisfight.org)
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To: gotribe; Blue Turtle
When they put that knife to her throat, the farthest thing from her mind will be respect.
Sadly, her last moments may give her the "understanding" of the "arab identity" (see #20) she sought. :-(
109 posted on 01/17/2006 9:54:52 PM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: montag813
Among Muslims, there are no "countries".

That philosophy exists at some level, but it's mostly been a failure so far. Muslim countries exist, and will continue to exist for the foreseeable future, despite the pan-Islamic rhetoric.

Blowing up a meteorite isn't going to help Jill Carroll.

110 posted on 01/17/2006 10:17:35 PM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: LauraleeBraswell

Umm, we already knew, thanks anyway.


111 posted on 01/17/2006 11:13:13 PM PST by LibWhacker
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Heard on the news a statement by her family members asking the terrorists to let her go because she was there to tell the real truth about the Iraq war. Hmmm...


112 posted on 01/18/2006 3:08:42 AM PST by KavMan
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To: HAL9000; All
Has anyone seen other pictures or the video? I am wondering what she is wearing. . .

as well, am wondering whether the 'no sound' is 'our viewing' or whether there was a malfunction. . .or just Al Jazeera - turning it 'off'. . .

113 posted on 01/18/2006 3:08:57 AM PST by cricket
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To: HAL9000
Blowing up a meteorite isn't going to help Jill Carroll.

But it would make great TV!

114 posted on 01/18/2006 4:05:01 AM PST by montag813
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To: HAL9000

The skinny seems to be that Jill Carroll was set up. She is 28 and evidently an idealist. Terrorists don't care if you 'love Arabs and respect their culture', etc., and why anyone thinks this would afford any kind of protection is beyond me. They kill women all the time. The MSM seems to have accepted that fact and written her off. (I wonder how the MSM would react if this were Ted Koppel or Dan the Man.)


115 posted on 01/18/2006 4:42:19 AM PST by hershey
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To: livius

Jill Carroll is a free lance journalist who's been in Iraq/the Middle East for several years. She's legit. Stupid, but legit.


116 posted on 01/18/2006 4:43:59 AM PST by hershey
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To: quefstar

I think the MSM kept quiet until today on the chance that the kidnappers were just thugs interested in ransom money, and the Christian Science Monitor/friends/family might have paid for her release. Instead they're murderous terrorists with a larger agenda.


117 posted on 01/18/2006 4:47:34 AM PST by hershey
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To: Paved Paradise
I haven't heard much of this at all - I also wonder why the MSM is so oddly silent on this.

According to some of the journo blogs out there, they've been trying to keep it low-key due to negotiations.

118 posted on 01/18/2006 4:58:21 AM PST by angkor
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To: ReignOfError; LauraleeBraswell; hershey

Thanks for the instructive answer. It adds much to this thread, where some Freepers seem to believe that she was abducted because she works for a "Christian" paper. I think she was taken because a lot of bloodthirsty muslim men hate to see independent women, especially non-Iraqi women travelling freely in their country.

The idea that she was taken to ransom "all women in Iraq prisons" is laughable.


119 posted on 01/18/2006 5:04:40 AM PST by maica (We are fighting the War for the Free World and the media is not on our side.)
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To: Paved Paradise

I haven't heard much of this at all - I also wonder why the MSM is so oddly silent on this.

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On the Fox News Channel's Newswatch program last Saturday, the silence on this story was one of their topics. They did not add much in their discussion.


120 posted on 01/18/2006 5:07:21 AM PST by maica (We are fighting the War for the Free World and the media is not on our side.)
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