Jill Carroll's Kidnappers Were Possibly Also the Kidnappers of Other Famous Abductees

Christian Science Monitor ^ | August 16, 2006 | Dan Murphy

[Crush T Velour]

Jill Carroll's captors appear to be involved in some of the most high-profile kidnappings of Westerners in Iraq during the past two years.

A Monitor investigation - including interviews with other kidnap victims, US, Iraqi, and Italian investigators, as well as court testimony in Iraq - ties her abductors, or others close to them, to at least five kidnapping incidents, including Ms. Carroll:

[...]

The strongest evidence suggests that the same group that took Carroll also abducted Ms. Sgrena, the Italian journalist. In early March, Abu Rasha, the leader of one of the three cells handling Carroll's kidnapping, went into great detail about Sgrena's captivity. Since Carroll's release, Sgrena has corroborated some of those details, although with some discrepancies.

[...]

Proximity alone wouldn't be enough to link the two. But US, Iraqi, and Italian investigators say that the man that ran that mosque, Sheikh Hussein al-Zubayi, is the prime suspect in the abductions of Sgrena, Aubenas, and Hassan, the deceased director of Care International in Iraq.

Sheikh Zubayi is a wealthy Baghdad cleric. Until last year, he was also a member of the Muslim Scholars Association, a hard-line Sunni group that was involved in both successful and unsuccessful ransom negotiations for foreign hostages in 2004. He's been in hiding since shortly after the Sgrena kidnapping.

[Crush T Velour]

Also, there is a good round-up on this story at: http://jarrarsupariver.blogspot.com/2006/08/jill-carroll-kidnapping-investigation.html

[C210N]

Makes sense. The process of specialization thru the 1970's and 1980's led to the demise of General Practitioner physicians who did house calls, in favor of specialists: proctologiysts, oncologysts, radiologysts, gynocologysts.

In the same way, terrorists are now specializing: rocket-launcherists, throat-slitherists, human-shielderists, and of course, kidnapfamousabducterists.

[Enchante]

"Sheikh Zubayi is a wealthy Baghdad cleric. Until last year, he was also a member of the Muslim Scholars Association, a hard-line Sunni group that was involved in both successful and unsuccessful ransom negotiations for foreign hostages in 2004. He's been in hiding since shortly after the Sgrena kidnapping."

This scumbag needs to be feeding the worms. I'm still highly suspicious about whether the whole Srgena case was a set-up to funnel Euros to terrorist savages. Maybe when the Italian agent was shot the Sheikh decided it would be getting to hot for him and he went into hiding..... I'd sure like to know his whole story.

[lionheart 247365]

I just can't wait until the book and movie come out . I think we've been hood winked .

[nmh]

If true, she was not in good company.

"A Monitor investigation - including interviews with other kidnap victims, US, Iraqi, and Italian investigators, as well as court testimony in Iraq - ties her abductors, or others close to them, to at least five kidnapping incidents, including Ms. Carroll:


• The Oct. 19, 2004 abduction and subsequent murder of Irish aid worker Margaret Hassan."

[sgtbono2002]

I can wait for the movie , noproblem. I wont go to see it anyway, but like you I believe we have been taken in by Sgrena and Jill Carroll, and would probably have been taken in by Rachel Corey if the bulldozer hadnt gotten her first.

[Gondring]

But terrorists still make house calls...

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

ROFLMAO!!
Very clever.

[pierrem15]

Still part of the same species: homo scumbagus.