I don't own the Bronx/Whitestone. How about the Throggs Neck?
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.
You forgot the loud yelling and panties on her head...
Is there actually a river under this bridge, and a road on both sides, or is it just a virtual bridge (perhaps a Wheatstone)?
Classic case of Stockholm Syndrome, imo.
I think she caught Stockholm Syndrome two years ago.
Right after they shot her interpreter to death.
She was a nutjob look before Stockholm syndrome could come into play.
Glad she is free...but the whole situation smells funny.
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.
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.
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.
I don't own the Bronx/Whitestone. How about the Throggs Neck?
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
If she works for The Christian Science Monitor she is a Christian Scientist. It's a rule they have for their reporters.
And this murder/kidnapping was conducted by a culture that will find any reason under heaven to rape women.
Stockholm Syndrome
Ahhh.
An electrically-bent comedian!
How droll and refreshing.
After Sgrena and Osthoff, I am getting pretty sceptical about these "kidnappings". They begin to look more and more like willing arrangements, IMHO.
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?
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.
Wasn't there one video of her crying?
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