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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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Comment #61 Removed by Moderator

To: HAL9000

Drudge has a picture on his site, doesn't look at all like the two in this thread.


62 posted on 01/17/2006 2:54:09 PM PST by Graymatter
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To: livius
That's interesting

Some of her stories are here.

She does express some deep feelings for the Iraqi's but not of any particular stripe. See what you think. My first instinct was kind of like yours but I felt a little differently after reading some.

She doesn't tout he administration line but she doesn't appear to be in bed with the terrorists like your typical MSM journalist.

Maybe I read too much right-slanted news to compensate for the MSM that I have trouble reading anything that appears to be down the middle.

Realistically, if the insurgency wasn't causing some trouble and if we hadn't made a few mistakes, we'd have this thing mopped up by now.

C'est la guerre.

63 posted on 01/17/2006 2:57:19 PM PST by keat
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To: Polybius

Well, Blitzer's phrasing made me wonder. So did Carroll's demeanor.


64 posted on 01/17/2006 3:00:37 PM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: HAL9000

Curses those damn arabs got another one... you think the journalists and reporters would start arming themselves already.....


65 posted on 01/17/2006 3:02:59 PM PST by futurerulerkch (I know where you live or do I?)
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To: NativeNewYorker

Jordan is (and pretty much always has been) on our side, as much as any country has been in that part of the world other than Israel. I'm quite sure that Jordan, after suffering their own terror attack a month or so ago, has no interest on coddling terrorists.


66 posted on 01/17/2006 3:23:21 PM PST by filbert (More filbert at http://www.medary.com)
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To: HAL9000
She must have known the dangers of what she was doing.

Just more scorn to pour upon the face of the prophet and his minions.

67 posted on 01/17/2006 3:25:57 PM PST by Sender (I and my house will side with Jerusalem.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Well..That is the most disgusting thing I have read.
If This woman is American. I dont care what she is doing. We have a duty to stand by her.
You give conservatives a bad name.
And yes..I am a Conservative....and a Human being.


69 posted on 01/17/2006 4:22:03 PM PST by Yorlik803 ( Don't crush that Dwarf,hand me the pliers)
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To: Yorlik803
Well said Yorlik803. I grieve for her and her family. A very bad position to be in. I admire her courage, cringe at the idealism that perhaps enhanced her feeling of personal safety... God be with Jill Carroll and her family at this time.
70 posted on 01/17/2006 4:24:51 PM PST by DariusBane (I do not separate people, as do the narrow-minded, into Greeks and barbarians.)
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To: HAL9000

We should drop a MOAB on Mecca if they kill her.


71 posted on 01/17/2006 4:25:22 PM PST by montag813
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To: HAL9000
In reality, it is an absurd, useless suggestion.

Why? I could see Pershing or MacArthur doing such a thing, in the day when men still had testicles. The Kabaa is the most sacred item in all of Islam. Were we to seize it, we could demand pretty much anything we wanted from Muslims worldwide.

72 posted on 01/17/2006 4:27:20 PM PST by montag813
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To: everyone

We would have to shave each and every prisoner to find which are the females.


73 posted on 01/17/2006 4:37:40 PM PST by north_georgia_republican
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To: HAL9000

Man, have you heard the uproar from the "moderate" Muslim community?! It is incredible, unbelievable, and unprededented. Wow!

I Did notice CAIR called for her release. They just want to look "moderate". Don't listen to them, they aren't. They are all PR.


74 posted on 01/17/2006 5:04:00 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: jdm

Ok. Mebbe she does look the same if you look past the head covering. Somehow, just seems like that black hijab, or whatever, after all the others I've seen on the ululating Palestinian chick ululating in celebration of 9/11 just kinda saps the endearing personality out of a girl.


75 posted on 01/17/2006 5:19:46 PM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: montag813
Why? I could see Pershing or MacArthur doing such a thing, in the day when men still had testicles. The Kabaa is the most sacred item in all of Islam.

The first reason is common sense: It just ain't gonna happen.

Second - it would be an unwarranted provocation against the majority of Muslims who are not a threat to our national interests. It would multiply the numbers of our enemy by a billion, stirring up a hornet nest, doing more harm than good.

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. We need to expand our influence, not diminish it.

Were we to seize it, we could demand pretty much anything we wanted from Muslims worldwide.

We can pretty much demand anything we want now. Seizing the Kabaa will not improve our chances of getting it. It would have the opposite effect.

76 posted on 01/17/2006 5:49:53 PM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: taxed2death

Then don't get a job working for a newspaper. It was her job. They sent her, she went.


77 posted on 01/17/2006 6:00:57 PM PST by gcruse
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To: Right Wing Assault
I Did notice CAIR called for her release. They just want to look "moderate". Don't listen to them, they aren't. They are all PR.

CAIR is full of Puerto Ricans?
78 posted on 01/17/2006 6:12:15 PM PST by gcruse
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To: HAL9000

Well if beheading men doesn't work and this doesn't work, will they resort to kidnapping children next? I wouldn't put it past the scumbags!
Note to "freedom fighters" - please take Cindy next!


79 posted on 01/17/2006 6:16:10 PM PST by derllak
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To: devolve; Grampa Dave; Travis McGee
Why are Aljazeera's towers not reduced to twisted wreckage?

Advise Carroll's captors the release of the female detainees will be in accordance with the condition in which they release the reporter, i.e., you do sushi, you get sushi.

Henceforth let us not detain any more "insurgents"--let them exsanguinate resisting arrest.

80 posted on 01/17/2006 6:19:45 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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