This woman is singing the praises of her alleged kidnappers. Would you be singing the praises of your daughter's kidnappers if they had threatened to behead her and you saw her allegedly begging for her life on television?
This whole thing stinks to high heaven. If she was "involuntarily" kidnapped, then I am the King of Spain.
... and I'm the Emperor of Ohio. The only appropriate way to view the Jill Carroll episode is with extreme cynicism. Leftists who collaborate with terrorists in order to get them funding via fake ransom ought to be hanging from a rope. From the moment the alleged hostage-takers failed to come through with their initial threat to kill her, there was no reason to believe she was not in full cooperation with them. The translator's death doesn't matter - life has no value in Islam.