Posted on 04/01/2006 1:34:16 PM PST by ricks_place
Former hostage Jill Carroll strongly disavowed statements she had made during captivity in Iraq and shortly after her release, saying Saturday she had been repeatedly threatened.
In a video, recorded before she was freed and posted by her captors on an Islamist Web site, Carroll spoke out against the U.S. military presence. But Carroll said the recording was made under threat. Her editor has said three men were pointing guns at her at the time.
"During my last night in captivity, my captors forced me to participate in a propaganda video. They told me I would be released if I cooperated. I was living in a threatening environment, under their control, and wanted to go home alive. So I agreed," she said in a statement read by her editor in Boston.
"Things that I was forced to say while captive are now being taken by some as an accurate reflection of my personal views. They are not."
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Fluid retention, either from natural causes, or maybe some disease she picked up from the cockroaches.
Your analysis is based on your understanding that all Arabs are alike, right?
agreed!!!!
No need for a demonstration.
I don't need to have walked a mile in her habib to express my opinion.
Time will tell. So far, this one stinks like a three day old fish.
No, it's pretty obvious you need a demonstration.
You may also remember that when their captors found out that the middle finger was not the "Hawaiian good-luck symbol" they got the crap beaten out of them for a whole week. She was with people who like to make videos of beheadings. Who knows what each one of us might have done in her place...?
And you are an expert, because......?
Please keep it pithy.
gimmie a friggin break people! Cut this women a break. Some of you are truly loony here! many have a nasty case of keyboard courage!!
I haven't followed this "story" as well as some. It does seem a bit hard to believe that she has been living in the middle east for some years now and still needs a translator.
I would not be surprised at all to find that this story has a fair amount of BS attached to it.
I cut you a break, and sent it you via ground UPS. Please use it wisely.
I'm not loony--I expressed an opinion. Why is that a problem?
If you don't like my opinion, just move along.
They wanted the "best", and there I was to do the job.
Anyway, a machinegun in the hands of an expert doesn't "spew bullets" as the leftwingnuts say. Instead, it delivers finely counted bursts of 3 and bursts of 4, on target.
Now there's no Arab in the world that's as good as I was at my peak, and there's likely no Arab in the world who even comes close to my present level of proficiency ~ but I'll tell you what, I have the greatest respect for any automatic weapon in almost anyone's hands.
The woman was right to be fearful.
You have no right to suggest she wasn't.
Gee, I thought I had a right to express my opinion.
I never said she shouldn't be fearful. My opinion is she had nothing to fear because I think she is a terrorist sympathizer.
Now the media is hailing her release like it matters.
You don't like that opinion, fine. You don't need to convert me to your way of thinking.
BTW your background was interesting.I remember that movie.
It is because of misleading statements like the following which indicate her final video was made after she was released.
AP via Yahoo: Former hostage Jill Carroll strongly disavowed statements she had made during captivity in Iraq and shortly after her release, saying Saturday she had been repeatedly threatened.
The poor girl was making her final video, NOT SHORTLY AFTER HER RELEASE, but with guns pointed at her while in the Sunni Islamic Party HQ.
Why is this fact so hard for us FReepers to grasp?
So her statement should have zero credibility irt its validity.
True, (I would probably sing like a canary if they whipped out their dull knives) but it still seems possible to do something out of character that people familiar with you would detect (scratch your nose a lot, lick your lips, speak with a sibilant s, etc.) Anyway, it is over, it ended well, and she can eventually resume her job of bashin Bush and the Iraq war.
Those were BH, not AH. Being threanted and seeing the jerks up close may change her mind.
I have a feeling she is just another reason to turn off the tv over the next 10 year.
She can reject her statement shortly after her release and her explanation is quite understandable. What she should not do is blame people for their reaction(s) to a statement she freely admits was false. If she wants grace and understanding, perhaps she should extend a little herself. And I do not mean towards the criminals who captured her. I mean to the poor bloggers and even the corrupt MSM for not knowing how to respond to her false statement immediately after her release. Clearly the ones who held to the fact that her captors were barbarians were correct, as she now freely admits. So her stupid statement about editors is just that: stupid. No one is a mind reader.
It's decidedly not rare on the Christian Science Monitor staff.
Umm, what?
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