Posted on 03/30/2006 3:51:30 PM PST by HAL9000
Freed US hostage Jill Carroll praised Iraq's insurgents and predicted their victory in an interview conducted by her captors before they released her today, according to a video posted on the internet.The footage, which could not be independently verified, appeared to have been filmed shortly before the freelance journalist was released today nearly three months after being kidnapped in Baghdad.
"Did you think the American army or the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) would save you at any time?" a muffled male voice asked Ms Carroll in accented English.
"Sometimes I thought maybe that they might come, they might find me, they might find a way to know where I am and come get me," she answered, dressed in the same baggy dress and headscarf she appeared in after her release.
Ms Carroll, 28, who worked mainly for the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor, was dropped at the door of the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters in Baghdad's western Amiriyah district today after being abducted on January 7.
Her Iraqi translator was shot dead.
"Why did not they save you?" asked the man.
"I think the mujahideen (Islamic holy warriors) are very smart and even with all the technology and all the people that the American army has here, they still are better at knowing how to live and work here, more clever," she said.
"Does this mean something to you?" asked the man.
"It makes very clear that the mujahideen are the ones that will win in the end," said Ms Carroll.
She was kidnapped by a group calling itself the Brigades of Vengeance, which had set numerous deadlines threatening to kill her if US-led forces failed to release all female detainees in Iraq.
The eight and a half minute tape, digitally stamped with the groups's name, starts with the man addressing the journalist as "dear Carroll" and asking her to describe how she had been treated by her captors.
"They treated me very well, like a guest given good food, kept safe, treated very, very well," she said.
"What will you tell the American people about the mujahideen when you go back to America?" asked the man.
"There are a lot of lies that come out of the American government calling the mujahideen terrorists, I think it is important that the American people hear from me that the mujahideen are only trying to defend their country," she said.
The man then asked Ms Carroll if she had a message for US President George W. Bush.
She smiles before saying: "He needs to stop this war. He knows this war is wrong ... He needs to finally admit that to the American people and make the troops go home.
"He does not care about his own people and the people here in Iraq. He needs to wake up and the people in America need to wake up."
Ms Carroll then said she felt guilty being set free while many women remained imprisoned at Baghdad's US-run Abu Ghraib prison.
"I feel guilty ... It shows the difference between the mujahideen and the Americans, it shows the mujahedeen are good people fighting an honourable fight while the Americans are here as an occupying force treating the people in a very bad way," she said.
At the end of the tape, her interrogator read out a statement in Arabic.
"The mujahideen in the land of the two rivers announce the liberation of the journalist Jill Carroll ... after the US forces and the CIA failed to find her making their ineptitude obvious to the whole world," he said.
"We liberate this journalist today after the American government met some of our demands by releasing some of our women prisoners."
Could we give her back?
I am speechless.
At least as to what I could post here.
"It makes very clear that the mujahideen are the ones that will win in the end," said Ms Carroll.
Bitch...
RACHEAL CORRIE,RACHEAL CORRIE,RACHEAL CORRIE,RACHEAL CORRIE,
She may have been under duress at the time.
Now if she continues to make these kind of statements . . .
I have a feeling that the whole thing was planned and that she was never really kidnapped. She just wanted national exposure and publicity. There is something about her story that doesn't ring true.
Apparently not guilty enough to stay there. Too bad.
So where's the link to the video?
You know what, our guys will continue to look for these, um, hostages (word used very lightly, very very lightly) and rescue them when they can, regardless of how utterly stupid they are.
Meanwhile, her translator, an IRAQI!!!! hello moron!! was not available for comment.
Typical media Liberal scum not worthy of living in freedom.
She sounds like a real douc:bag. What a settup, took us all for a ride.
If she's still a useful idiot three months from now, then she should be given back to the Arab terrorists
You know, I refrained from posting this a.m. on the threads, but said a silent prayer, and I continue to be thankful for a life spared, but I don't know. She smiled?
I'll give her the benefit of the doubt that she may indeed have been under duress and needed to throw a bone to get the heck out of there...but I'm keeping this one on a short leash. If she repeats any of that in the open, throw her to the sharks.
What were her opinions prior to her kidnapping and the murder of her interpreter?
There are a tiny handful of women prisoners. The ones they want are Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax.
Our little Jihad Jill was certainly chatty in her little talk. She's just another Sgrena.
They'll never play this on the news. They wouldn't play the sound portion of the other video, either. I'm sure they were about the same as this.
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