January 26, 2006
Jill Carroll
Freelance journalist was following dream in Iraq
""All I ever wanted to be was a foreign correspondent," Carroll wrote last year in the American Journalism Review. "It seemed the right time to try to make it happen."
~Why do I think this reads like an obituary? (Note to self: Iraq is not the place to go following a dream.*)
A 2005 handout photo shows Christian Science Monitor freelance writer Jill Carroll helping to prepare traditional food at the home of Iraqi friends. Carroll was abducted by unknown gunmen in Baghdad on January 7, 2006 and her Iraqi interpreter Allan Enwiyah was killed during the kidnapping. U.S. forces in Iraq said on January 18 they were holding eight women prisoners, after the abductors of Carroll threatened to kill her if the authorities did not free all Iraqi women within 72 hours. | Reuters @
Jill Carroll updates at the Christian Science Monitor
~Jill Carroll is not an Iraqi Pocahontas, more like an American Anne Frank.
If they killed her, she'll become immortal? A Hollywood movie for sure. Everyone on the right will claim a piece of her. Perhaps used as a military recruitment poster. *Certainly a lesson for us all.
If she lives her story will be less predictable, less exemplary, simply human.