[brazzaville]

Good evening.
"You're surrounded by your captors."

Do you mean the same captors that fed her, let her go to the bathroom and let her take showers? The ones who didn't treat her badly?

Aren't they the same ones who took an American peacenik out and executed him shortly before good Coalition troopies rescued his fellow travelers, other peaceniks who finally issued Fonda-esque thanks to the men who rescued them.

She isn't surrounded by the enemy now, let's see what she has to say.

Michael Frazier

[Velveeta]

She isn't surrounded by the enemy now, let's see what she has to say.

That's fair enough. Seems to me she's saying she didn't want to die.

"You know that shelf?" she asked. She meant a mirror-backed knickknack cabinet in the entry of the Post house in Baghdad. For one reason or another, it had become a place to put photos of close friends killed over the nearly three years of war in Iraq.

The cabinet had three shelves. Two of the shelves already held a photo, both of them, coincidentally, of young women.

"I kept thinking about that shelf," Carroll said. "I didn't want to be that third shelf."

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