Posted on 08/13/2006 5:09:50 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
LOL.
I can't say as if I blame her but I would prefer to do it like the Italian who spit in his captors face before they shot him.
Thank you! Are all Aussie's as gracious as you? Oh, and happy Monday! :)
I'm still not convinced that she was not collaborating with them and making her story up.
Not all of them! I won't go into details. LOL!!!!
Dittos.
Don't have any idea what is the truth or not; but I sure would hate to have been in her position.
She probably has a better understanding of what went on over there than you, don't you think? Afterall, she was there for quite some time. How long were you there? I don't see anywhere where she tried to make them sound merciful. It was apparent from reading it that she didn't enjoy her stay there. While there are some real animals in Iraq, it is plausible that not all of them are cold blooded murderers. They could have been common thugs.
What, exactly is your point?
I was wondering how long it was gonna take her to "sell" her story. She probably couldn't get the price she wanted from a real publisher and chose to stay with the paper.
I still don't believe her story. And if it does turn out to be true, then this anti-american/anti-military cheerleader got what she deserved.
as with the Nick Berg story, we will never know what the full truth is on this one.
Silly me. I thought this was Jon Carroll.
"They'd given me a new hijab (headscarf), a new name (Aisha), and tried to convert me to Islam,"
Good thing these people are really stupid...
She just doesn't say they succeeded!!!
They let a NON MUSLIM play with their children?
Say what????
And at one point treated her to meal like a she was an honored guest?
I guess they would do that for a new convert to Islam.
Right!!! I would think more of her if she said she had pretended to convert Islam to save her life. I think she did convert. Remember lying to infidels is not a sin in Islam... it is expected.
I would not trust her any farther than I could throw her.
Well, I'll sure mind my P's and Q's then. I dread the thought of being croc bait. ;)
"I bet you call yourself a Christian."
What does being a Christian have to do with this?
Yeah right, where have you been? She is an anti war activist and was open about that before she went there. I don't believe her story for a minute. I believe the troops and family that have come back from there. Her story just doesn't add up.
It is NOT a religion of peace. It is a pagan worship of death, not of life, nor hope.
There are many, many others who should be croc bait first...
"As days turned to months, Carroll, who speaks Arabic and moved to Iraq to fulfill a dream of being a foreign correspondent, said she was interrogated, but, at times, was given a remote control to a television set where she watched the The Oprah Winfrey Show. "
If that doesn't prove there is something VERY wrong with Oprah's show I don't know what will. Terrorists LOVE her.
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