Posted on 08/14/2006 7:56:11 PM PDT by Indiana Man
At the beginning of Jill Carroll's 82-day captivity by Al-Qaeda terrorists she recalls asking for a quick death by pistol rather than beheading. "I don't want the knife", said Carroll to her kidnappers. She feared that they would execute her when she found out they were to use her in a second propaganda video. Her pleas seemed to have confused them, because they said they didn't plan on killing her. She said in an 11-part series at the Christian Science Monitor where she is a staff writer, how terrified she was during her captivity. She says that they were very civil to her Within hours of her abduction they took her to two homes where she was given new clothes and fed a dinner of rice and chicken, and was even invited to watch television with one kidnapper's family. She wondered "how to channel surf with the mujahideen". She asked herself that question as she flipped through the channels. She decided not to watch anything that had to do with politics or news. She finally got to Channel 1 in Dubai where Oprah was on. She tried not to do anything that might set them off. She was careful about what she ate to what she watched. She knew that every moment was a test. If she did anything wrong then they would probably kill her. Meanwhile they seemed concerned that she thought they were kind and that she felt comfortable. She was kidnapped January 7th and her interpretor Alan Enwiya was shot dead. She was released 82 days later in front of a sunni political party headquarters. She says that they peppered her with questions in arabic. She says that she played dumb trying to seem like she didn't know much, fearing that they would kill her if she knew too much. She said that the group later (called the Revenge Brigade) took her to a tiny three-room home on the outskirts of Baghdad where she dressed in new clothes "while the stern-faced woman of the house looked on". She says that her captors asked her questions about her job, religion, and if anyone in her family drank alcohol. The interpretor then explained the situation. He said that they wanted all Iraqi detainees in US run prisons in Iraq to be released. He also said that if the demand wasn't met then they would kill her. Carroll drew much sympathy from mideast groups such as Hamas, who pleaded for her release. She was released 82 days later. Last week, the US military captured four Iraqi men in connection with her abduction.
"She says that they were very civil to her"
...except for that whole kidnapping.. misunderstanding... thingy....
(Stockholm Syndrome anyone???)
yeah, yeah, they "very civil" to her.
Something is pretty out of whack with that statement.
She feared for her life,
pleaded with them to kill her with a gun not a knife
and yet describes their treatment of her as "very civil"?
ping
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