Posted on 03/30/2006 4:13:18 PM PST by jimbo123
American reporter Jill Carroll has been released after a three-month hostage ordeal in Iraq and was with US officials inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone.
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Video interview
A video posted on the internet, which could not be independently verified, showed Ms Carroll in an interview apparently conducted by her captors before they released her.
"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.
"Why did not they save you?" asked the interviewer.
"I think the mujahedeen 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?" the man questioning her asked.
"It makes very clear that the mujahedeen are the ones that will win in the end," Ms Carroll said in the video.
At the end of the eight and a half minute tape, the same man read out a statement in Arabic.
"The mujahedeen 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at 9.sbs.com.au ...
Good comments -- thanks.
Emotions run high during a war -- that's natural, I guess. And we're all disappointed in previous hostages who praised terrorists after their release (like the Italian reporter a few months back). But that's not a good reason to act churlishly toward Ms. Carroll's release -- it's still okay just to be glad she's alive.
Keith is a bead on my Rosary every night. He is all of them for me. On the sunny side, my own USMC arrived home Monday night. Currently honeymooning with the wife!
I would bet my eye teeth that there is a hot looking terrorist in this story. Jill did it all for love. I'd bet the farm on that. OTT, she didn't belong there in the first place, but then neither did the very dead Mr. Fox.
I like your comments. I'd just add that people sometimes take months or years to "process" a genuinely traumatic experience. Let's not be too quick to try to make Ms. Carroll into an enemy, no matter what she says. Let's keep the focus where it matters -- on terrorists who do crimes like this.
Was this tongue-in-cheek? Here's a link and an excerpt you might find interesting: http://www.mentalmayhem.org/newswire/2006/01/jordan_times_ed.html
Jordan Times Editorial: Our Jill
(excerpted) The kidnappers who abducted her could not have chosen a more wrong target. True, Jill is a US citizen. But she is also more critical of US policies towards the Middle East than many Arabs.
Though as a reporter she always complies with the strictest requirements of objectivity and impartiality, Jill has been from day one opposed to the war, to the invasion and occupation of Iraq. More than just being sympathetic with average Iraqis under war and occupation, Jill is a true believer in Arab causes.
From Arabic food to the Arabic language, Jill has always wanted to know and experience as much as possible about Arab identity, and she is keen on absorbing it, learning, understanding and respecting it. She doesn't just "like" Arab culture, she loves it.
This is going to be Clooney's new Anti-American movie
A little "overdone," if you ask me.
Same here. The translator that died during the "kidnapping" was Christian--probably expendable in their eyes. She was in on this from the gitgo.
I suspect she's simply trying to avoid riling them up.
Release or no release, from the beginning I thought she was working with them.
In the meantime the MSM will feed on her until finally they have gorged enough.
I beg your pardon? Since when is suspecting a traitor indicative of adolescence?
Doesn't that make her and "accessory to murder after the fact"...
(Oh, that's right. She got murdered)
what a wacko broad
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