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KIDNAP -- of Jill Carroll
www.sfgate.com ^ | Monday, August 14, 2006 | Jill Carroll, Christian Science Monitor

Posted on 08/14/2006 11:00:52 AM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp

My chief captor had an idea about how to prod the U.S. government into action: another video. He said this one would be different, and left.

I turned to the two guards sitting on cushions a few feet away and started to panic. Really, really panic.

"Oh my God, oh my God, they're going to kill me, this is going to be it. I don't know when but they're going to do it," I thought.

I crawled over to Abu Hassan, the one who seemed more grown-up and sympathetic. His 9mm pistol was by his side, as usual.

"You're my brother, you're truly my brother," I said in Arabic. "Promise me you will use this gun to kill me by your own hand. I don't want that knife, I don't want the knife, use the gun."

I started to cry hysterically. By now I'd been held captive by Iraqi insurgents for six weeks. They'd given me a new hijab, a new name (Aisha), and tried to convert me to Islam. They'd let me play with their children -- and repeatedly accused me of working for the CIA.

At night I'd fall asleep and be free in my dreams. Then I'd wake up and my situation would land on me like a weight. Every morning, it was as if I was kidnapped anew.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: again; hostages; iraq; jillcarroll
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1 posted on 08/14/2006 11:00:52 AM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

I hope all of her liberal pals at the University of Michigan who support Hezzbollah get to read this.

Not that it'll make a difference.


2 posted on 08/14/2006 11:05:19 AM PDT by kjo
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
This part of her story seems to have told and re-told repeatedly over the past few days.

Where's the part where she criticizes Islamofascism, calls the terrorists a bunch of muderous barbarians, and thanks God for a country like the United States? I seem to have missed that part of her story.

3 posted on 08/14/2006 11:06:05 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ( “I'm the Emperor, and I want dumplings!” (German: Ich bin der Kaiser und will Knödel.))
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

""You're my brother, you're truly my brother," I said in Arabic."

Patty Hearst syndrome before and after the kidnapping? I'm still not convinced she wasn't in on the plot.


4 posted on 08/14/2006 11:08:20 AM PDT by GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos (LIBS = Lewd Insane Babbling Scum)
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To: GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos

I see people here really care about what she went through.


5 posted on 08/14/2006 11:09:50 AM PDT by samadams2000
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

She's insane, but she's been that way for a long time.

What a tool.


6 posted on 08/14/2006 11:10:02 AM PDT by D-Chivas
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
They'd given me a new hijab, a new name (Aisha),

For some reason, that scene in Roots with LeVar Burton comes to mind. "Kunta Kinte!"

7 posted on 08/14/2006 11:10:02 AM PDT by krb (If you're not outraged, people probably like having you around.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

It's going to be a series of articles, so hopefully we'll get to read that part (if it's online and not only in print).


8 posted on 08/14/2006 11:11:22 AM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Evil never sleeps...)
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To: samadams2000

Its great she understood and equated morally both sides of this struggle. It makes one so much more at peace when the koranimals cut your head off for all the world to see.


9 posted on 08/14/2006 11:12:14 AM PDT by samadams2000
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To: ClearCase_guy

It's a multi-part series. It isn't done yet.


10 posted on 08/14/2006 11:12:51 AM PDT by Sols
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To: kjo

I think we may have found a cure for liberalism. Just have the insurgents kidnap and threaten to kill them and they'll understand!


11 posted on 08/14/2006 11:13:20 AM PDT by SoldierDad
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To: krb

Did you know that Aisha was the name of Muhammad's wife? She was either 6 or 9 at the time of marriage (accounts differ).


12 posted on 08/14/2006 11:13:56 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ( “I'm the Emperor, and I want dumplings!” (German: Ich bin der Kaiser und will Knödel.))
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp; Chieftain; SandRat; ClearCase_guy

Well, its not a bad deal...

Airfare to Iraq: .....$1000. dollars
New Scarf to wear for your "kidnapping".....$3 dollars
Makeup for your "release" MSM videos....$14.dollars


Making multi millions on your " I was a Terrorist Hostage" book and movie......PRICELESS !!


13 posted on 08/14/2006 11:14:41 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Moderate Mooslims.....what's that?)
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To: krb
“They'd given me a new hijab, a new name (Aisha),”

I guess Tania... wouldn't do.

14 posted on 08/14/2006 11:17:00 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: samadams2000

Alot of people here formed their opinion of this when it was happening and NOTHING she can say, do or express will change their minds. It's just incredibible.


15 posted on 08/14/2006 11:17:04 AM PDT by Hildy (To save us both time, assume I know everything...)
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To: GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos
Totally agree...from the beginning, there's been something about this that just does not add up.
16 posted on 08/14/2006 11:17:35 AM PDT by top 2 toe red (To the enemy in Iraq..."Don't bet on American politics forcing my hand!" President Bush)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Yep...coincidentally I just read the Wikipedia article on Aisha this morning.
17 posted on 08/14/2006 11:20:24 AM PDT by krb (If you're not outraged, people probably like having you around.)
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To: top 2 toe red

Oh like what?


18 posted on 08/14/2006 11:21:06 AM PDT by Sols
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To: GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos

Many cowards tend to express their cowardice by hugging the bad guy's leg and saying "I'm really one of you, I'm not bad like those other people".

Kind of the attitude that some Jewish leaders took in 1930's Germany, and like many more are taking now WRT the middle east. This is way more than Stockholm Syndrome, unless you can have it way before the actual trauma. Or is sheer liberal cowardice sufficient trauma?


19 posted on 08/14/2006 11:21:24 AM PDT by Idaho Whacko
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To: Hildy; samadams2000

What's incredible is that some people ignore holes in a 'story' so big you could drive a mack truck thru them.


20 posted on 08/14/2006 11:22:51 AM PDT by top 2 toe red (To the enemy in Iraq..."Don't bet on American politics forcing my hand!" President Bush)
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