[rockabyebaby]

IMO this whole thing was staged, she should be arrested for the death of her translator, she's been living in Iraq for 3 years and I believe she is a terrorist sympathizer, I do not believe her latest statements were made under duress. She claims she was never threatened, treated well, etc. yet we have all seen the videos where she's practically in tears because she has been threatened with beheading. This does not pass the smell test.

[ricks_place]

IMO this whole thing was staged...

Judge her by her past from the Christian Science Monitor...

Her friends in Bagdhad note that she is motivated not just by her professionalism, but also by a love of Iraq, a country that she has come to call "home."...

"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."...

"A few months after the US invasion, she left Jordan for Iraq, prompted by the desire to show to as vast an audience as possible the human tragedies caused by the war and the hardships of the Iraqi people."...

As Carroll was abducted, her interpreter, Allan Enwiyah, was murdered. The Monitor is assisting his family.

[exit82]

You hit the nail on the head. This not only doesn't pass the smell test, it stinks!

She's as phoney as a three dollar bill.

[rudabaga]

clearly you didn't read the whole story. she said she was threatened repeatedly and called her kidnappers murderers. what is wrong with everyone about this story?

[shoedog]

I think thats going way overboard!!!

[HEY4QDEMS]

IMO this whole thing was staged,

Doesn't seem to hard to believe from where I'm sitting. If making a few scripted statements would save my life I'd say them.

Do you really think she arranged for her translator to be killed.

It has been confirmed on FOX that the two interviews that were aired post release were conducted by her captors and by the Sunni party.

In short I believe her.

And Mia Culpa, I had posted earlier that I was tired of her descriptions of her captivity being pleasant as if she was in a five star hotel, but as Paul Harvey would say, "Now you know the rest of the story".

[muawiyah]

I was just mentioning the fact that in most of the world most people disbelieve any statement made under duress and dismiss it as propaganda except that we have some Freepers who believe propaganda films.

[Chena]

IMO this whole thing was staged, she should be arrested for the death of her translator, she's been living in Iraq for 3 years and I believe she is a terrorist sympathizer, I do not believe her latest statements were made under duress. She claims she was never threatened, treated well, etc. yet we have all seen the videos where she's practically in tears because she has been threatened with beheading. This does not pass the smell test.

My goodness, I sure hope you don't ever serve on jury duty. LOL I'm sure you probably realize that there are MANY Americans and folks from other countries as well, who are living and working in Iraq. So if that is one of the reasons you do not believe her story, you might want to re-think that one.

Also, we all saw the video where she was "practically in tears because she was being threatened", and then her video before her release where she praises her captors. Now, isn't it possible that she was scared to death in the first video, and trying to get out of her situation alive by saying what she did in the second video?