[Patriot from Philly]

The interesting thing is she must be an embarrassment to the American media. I would like to make her the symbol of the media in Iraq. The media will try to change the subject. Her crying and weeping, her collaboration.

But truly, if it is found that she staged her kidnapping, the FBI should charge her. That will stop her nonsense.

I think the US media in Iraq knew she was a flake.

[twigs]

I'm still inclined to believe that she did not fake her kidnapping. Even if she is in sympathy, they've killed other sympathetic foreigners, even converts and even women. It's too risky. But from what I've heard, she was in a questionable neighborhood when she was taken and her behavior upon release raises questions. Again, I'm inclined to believe there's a reason. Stockholm Syndrome is not uncommon.

What I've seen that has bothered me is that representatives of the Christian Science Monitor, in addition to our military, have worked tirelessly for months for her release even though she was a free-lance writer. Yet, from what I can tell, the first colleagues she called upon release were from the Washington Post. I heard one of them talking about it yesterday morning at CNN. They sent a reporter to talk to her about the time the rest of us were just hearing the news. She has a lot of people to thank for her release and they may not be the ones which come to her mind. But we'll see as her story unfolds.