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Carroll Says Captors Treated Her Well
yahoo ^ | 03 30 06

Posted on 03/30/2006 5:33:19 AM PST by InvisibleChurch

Carroll Says Captors Treated Her Well By MARIAM FAM, Associated Press Writer 21 minutes ago

American reporter Jill Carroll was set free Thursday, nearly three months after she was kidnapped in an ambush that killed her translator, and said she had been treated well.

Carroll apparently was left in the street near the Iraqi Islamic Party offices. She walked inside, and people there called American officials.

"I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped," Carroll said in a brief interview on Baghdad television.

Even though the group threatened twice in videotapes to kill her, Carroll said, "They never hit me. They never said they would hit me."

During the interview, Carroll wore a light green Islamic headscarf and a gray Arabic robe.

"I'm just happy to be free. I want to be with my family," she was heard to say under the Arabic voiceover.

Carroll said she was kept in a room with a window and a shower, but she did not know where she was. Asked about the circumstances of her release, she said, "They just came to me and said we're going. They didn't tell me what was going on."

In Berlin, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she was "pleased" by the news of Carroll's release.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hostages; iraq; jillcarroll; nutjob
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To: nina0113
"Except, of course, for the kidnapping and death threats."

You forgot the loud yelling and panties on her head...

21 posted on 03/30/2006 5:50:47 AM PST by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: Publius6961
Would you be interested in buying a bridge that generates steady income?

Is there actually a river under this bridge, and a road on both sides, or is it just a virtual bridge (perhaps a Wheatstone)?

22 posted on 03/30/2006 5:50:55 AM PST by nina0113
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To: InvisibleChurch

Classic case of Stockholm Syndrome, imo.


23 posted on 03/30/2006 5:50:57 AM PST by JHL
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To: Publius6961

I think she caught Stockholm Syndrome two years ago.


25 posted on 03/30/2006 5:52:15 AM PST by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: InvisibleChurch
"They treated me well."

Right after they shot her interpreter to death.

26 posted on 03/30/2006 5:52:18 AM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: JHL


She was a nutjob look before Stockholm syndrome could come into play.

Glad she is free...but the whole situation smells funny.


27 posted on 03/30/2006 5:54:02 AM PST by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
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To: InvisibleChurch

They treated her well, but her translator is dead. Since he was just a local, I guess his death is a matter of no great importance.


28 posted on 03/30/2006 5:54:09 AM PST by bondjamesbond (Rice '08)
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To: JHL

Given some of her views, I'm afraid she went over the fence a good time before she was taken...and her captors knew this and at the very best, took abject advantage of it. At the very worst, she was a willing participant. I pray that is not the case.


29 posted on 03/30/2006 5:54:38 AM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: InvisibleChurch

If she was "treated well", why was she crying in terror on camera as if they were going to kill her at any second?

Either she was in real fear for her life (which does not translate to being "treated well"), or she was acting. It's one or the other.


30 posted on 03/30/2006 5:55:41 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: YOUGOTIT
Why is she still wearing that Islamic get-up? If I were freed, the first thing I would do would find some presentable clothing.
31 posted on 03/30/2006 5:55:43 AM PST by oyez (Appeasement is insanity)
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To: nina0113
Is there actually a river under this bridge, and a road on both sides, or is it just a virtual bridge (perhaps a Wheatstone)?

I don't own the Bronx/Whitestone. How about the Throggs Neck?

32 posted on 03/30/2006 6:00:39 AM PST by bondjamesbond (Rice '08)
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To: mlc9852
Precisely. The ignorance of the press, she IS a reporter, continues unabated. Kidnapping someone, threatening to murder her, and murdering her companion, are not the marks of "good treatment." They are the marks of savages.

If a reporter who was IN this very situation cannot tell the truth about her captors, there's little hope for American press coverage of the war to be anything but continued dishonesty which deceives the American people.

It makes no difference whether the reporters intend to be dishonest, or are merely clueless. The effects back home are the same.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article: "Death of a Hornet, and a Civilization"

33 posted on 03/30/2006 6:01:19 AM PST by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com RIGHT NOW. I need your help.)
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To: SheLion

If she works for The Christian Science Monitor she is a Christian Scientist. It's a rule they have for their reporters.


34 posted on 03/30/2006 6:04:01 AM PST by RexBeach ("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
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To: zerosix
She failed to draw attention to the "treatment" her Iraqi translator got, however. The translator was murdered in order to kidnap her, just to "treat her well."

And this murder/kidnapping was conducted by a culture that will find any reason under heaven to rape women.

Stockholm Syndrome

35 posted on 03/30/2006 6:04:27 AM PST by Shomer (More Great News and Insights From The Blue Bird of F'ing Joy)
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To: nina0113
Is there actually a river under this bridge, and a road on both sides, or is it just a virtual bridge (perhaps a Wheatstone)?

Ahhh.
An electrically-bent comedian!
How droll and refreshing.

36 posted on 03/30/2006 6:05:14 AM PST by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: Congressman Billybob

After Sgrena and Osthoff, I am getting pretty sceptical about these "kidnappings". They begin to look more and more like willing arrangements, IMHO.


37 posted on 03/30/2006 6:06:02 AM PST by bondjamesbond (Rice '08)
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To: oyez

I thought the same thing. Seems she has gotten quite attached to that rag on her head. When does the book come out and when is the movie?


38 posted on 03/30/2006 6:08:32 AM PST by buoybob
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To: conservativehusker
Does anyone else wonder why no other American Woman "Journalists" are kidnapped??? -- Just this one who has been an apologist for the terrorists from the beginning..and foreign females from liberal papers????

Well, you could be right. An alternate explanation, that I personally think is more likely, is that liberal females are the only ones that don't have the brains to take some precautions against being kidnapped.

39 posted on 03/30/2006 6:08:35 AM PST by chesley (Liberals...what's not to loathe?)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Wasn't there one video of her crying?


40 posted on 03/30/2006 6:09:29 AM PST by AmericaUnite
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