Hostage Jill Carroll Released (Per Fox News and MSNBC)

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[xcamel]

Breaking - Jill Carrol released in Iraq - more to come

[driftdiver]

"I believe it was all a planned act."

Could be but it will be hard to prove. And while I love conspiracies I just dont think thats the case. I think its more likely part of her ransom was these statements.

[Patriot from Philly]

She's a younger version of Sgrena, the horrid Italian hostage. Sgrena went to Iraq to get dirt on the US and was careless about her travels. She was angry with the people of Fallujah when they didn't say the negative things she wanted.

She was involved in the incident where the Italian intelligence agent was killed at a checkpoint and the Italians have charged the American soldier with murder.

Now here's the important part: after her release Sgrena said she helped her insurgent friends stage the video and wanted to look more desperate.

Recently, the communist Sgrena has denigrated the Italian hostage who was killed and complained that the US is not paying enough attention to her.

I fear Carroll is from the same cloth.

[ftriggerf]

For the last 25 years, I've wanted to visit Egypt. It is now within my reach...but with world events, not so sure it's wise. In high school, I could have gone to Ireland on foreign exchange, but Mom said no....which was probably wise...(but I can still resent, a little)

[ftriggerf]

me too :-( I feel badly not having the same 'feeling' for er as other hostages or missing people. It 'felt' like she could be home when she wanted....

[Patriot from Philly]

She is going to have to explain her crying video now that she told us her captors are such great guys.

These narcissistic women have actually contributed to the deaths of 2 men and we don't know how many deaths were caused. How many extra patrols? How many raids.

I was disgusted by her interview. I'll wait and see if she clarifies her comments.

[TennesseeGirl]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0113/carroll_update.html

An editorial calling for the release of Jill Carroll ran in Wednesday's edition of Baghdad's New Sabah newspaper. It was written by the paper's editor in chief, Ismael Zayer. Some excerpts:

"American freelance journalist Jill Carroll, who used the name Zainab in Iraq, has been held by kidnappers since Jan. 7. Jill loves Iraq and Iraqis. She is known for her independent thinking....

There seems to be multiple meanings for Zainab, one of which means "adornment of father".

[TennesseeGirl]

Jill has lived there since 2001. She was a reporter for the Jordan Times.

[Anita1]

Re: "She probably converted to Islam."


In another article -

After the interview, Hashimi was shown presenting Carroll with gifts: a plaque bearing the party's emblem and a boxed copy of the Koran.

"What you have received today from the Iraqi Islamic Party is exactly the teachings of the Koran," Hashimi said, smiling. Carroll thanked him and said the copy of the Koran was beautiful...

[kabar]

Jill has lived there since 2001. She was a reporter for the Jordan Times.

Thanks. It looks like she went to Iraq around June 2003.

"Carroll moved to Iraq shortly after the US invasion from Jordan, where she was studying Arabic and working at the English-language Jordan Times."

As deadline passes, Iraqi official thinks Jill Carroll is alive

[kabar]

Meanwhile, reactions from her friends and colleagues paint a clear picture of Ms. Carroll's life as a Middle East correspondent and of her dedication to in-depth coverage of Iraq.

"Jill's ability to help others understand the issues facing all groups in Iraq has been invaluable," said Monitor Editor Richard Bergenheim in a statement released Tuesday.

Carroll's reporting has been highly regarded since her college days, when she wrote for the student paper at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

After college, Carroll worked as a reporting assistant for The Wall Street Journal until August 2002. She then moved to Jordan, and reported for the Jordan Times before pursuing a freelance career.

"All I ever wanted to be was a foreign correspondent," Carroll wrote in an American Journalism Review piece describing the lives of freelancers in Iraq.

Carroll's friends in Bagdhad note that she is motivated not just by her professionalism, but also by a love of Iraq, a country that she has come to call "home."

[kabar]

Read this article she wrote from Baghdad in Feb 2005. It is interesting that she mentions the kidnapping of reporters in the article.

Letter from Baghdad: What a Way to Make a Living

"The sense that I could do more good in the Middle East than in the U.S. drove me to move to Jordan six months before the war to learn as much about the region as possible before the fighting began. All I ever wanted to be was a foreign correspondent, so when I was laid off from my reporting assistant job at the Wall Street Journal in August 2002, it seemed the right time to try to make it happen. There was bound to be plenty of parachute journalism once the war started, and I didn't want to be a part of that. "

"The anger and violence have only gotten worse since then, and a new terror has been added: kidnapping. Some 200 foreigners, several freelance journalists among them, have been kidnapped in Iraq since insurgents adopted the tactic last April."

"But most agree such attacks have more to do with bad luck than with freelancing. And they say they don't need to take extra chances to get stories that will sell." \

[tobyhill]

She was a strategically placed planted hostage to sway the MSM. In her first video she's crying and giving the indication that they are going to torture her like the other hostages but during her interview she said she was never mistreated. She's a journalist and knows what mental torture is so it's amazing she never mentions this and requires no mental evaluations. It's also amazing she just suddenly appears at the elusive Sunni Political Party Headquarters.

[kabar]

She definitely had an agenda before she went to Iraq.

[tobyhill]

After 3 months there must be at least a general sense of where she was. It sounds like she will write next about how wonderful the Sunni's are and how they really can integrate with Iraq as a whole if America will leave them alone.

[Mila]

The Church of Christ Scientist(Christian Science)was founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879. Basically, they spurn traditional medical and rely instead on prayer and Christian Science practitioners. Although their practices are controversial, I'm not sure that they would qualify as a cult. However,I could be very wrong as I'm far from well versed on the subject.

[tobyhill]

"It makes very clear that the mujahideen are the ones that will win in the end," said Ms Carroll.

Terrorist mouthpiece just as planned but it sounds as though the mujahideen have been beaten to a pulp and trying to regroup.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

This woman, despite her choices, is a human being and an American.

One could say the same thing for Jose Padilla.

[OKIEDOC]

Just a few comments since you seem to have some doubts.

I wondered myself about why she is there and if she truly did speak Arabic fluently.

I have excerpted some of her comments in former writings.

It proves nothing really except that she had sympathy for the locals and not necessarily for the American occupiers.

You will notice however that she had been in Iraq since October of 2003.

1. "Yes, some new things are available now, mobile phones, satellite TV, new cars. But the thing that we lost is more valuable," says Basim Majid, the manager of an electronics store. "We are in the middle of chaos and there is no way back. I hope they use force to spread security."

Bassam Henna, who is unemployed, is discouraged. "Frankly, the time of Saddam was better in general," he says. "Not Saddam himself, with all his faults and all his mistakes, but in general, that time was better than now. If we are missing him, imagine what the situation is like."

2.Interviews with captured insurgents are televised every night at 9 p.m. on state television and has become wildly popular since beginning about three months ago. Prisoners, often with visible bruises and cuts, sit behind a table and confess the gruesome details of their crimes. An anonymous offscreen military or police commander harangues them and lectures them about what jihad really means. One has even taken to reciting patriotic poetry he wrote himself.

3. Mourning Marla
By Jill Carroll, Christian Science Monitor. Posted April 18, 2005.
Californian Marla Ruzicka was the head of an NGO whose blend of tenacity and optimism kept her in Iraq long after almost every other humanitarian aid organization had left.

Marla and her Iraqi driver died Saturday when their car was tragically caught between a suicide car bomber and a US military convoy.

Marla was more than a source for a story, she was one of those quiet cheerleaders that kept me -- and the Iraqis she touched -- going almost from the moment that I arrived here three years ago.

I first met her in Jordan, just before the war. A reporter friend told me that I should get to know this young activist who made a name for herself working for Global Exchange, the US organization that sent field workers to Afghanistan to count civilian casualties.
When she died Marla was traveling to visit some of the many Iraqi families she was working to help. Lately, she had been attempting to aid the relatives of a toddler whose parents were killed after the mini-bus they were traveling in was hit by what was believed to be an American rocket.

4.
Carroll was reporting in Iraq for the Christian Science Monitor. She has also worked as a commentator for news networks such as MSNBC. She has been in Iraq since October 2003. Before covering the Middle East, Carroll was a reporter in Washington, D.C., for the Wall Street Journal and States News Service.

As far as speaking fluently the Arabic language who knows?

I did read some where but will not look up the source that her good friend or sister said she was fluent in the Arabic language.

[OKIEDOC]

Thanks for the nice comment.

[Romanov]

Hear! Hear! I think I made that point on the first thread when her "kidnapping" was announced. I see she's oh so remorseful about her murdered translator.. Oh, wait, nope, didn't mention him once - just mentioned how kind her "kidnappers" were. What a skank.