March 30, 2006
American Hostage Jill Carroll Freed in Iraq
‘I was treated well,’ reporter says of nearly three-month ordeal*.
American reporter Jill Carroll speaks to media after her release from captivity at the Islamic Party Headquarters Thursday March 30, 2006 in Baghdad in this image taken from video. Carroll, who was kidnapped three months ago in a bloody ambush that killed her translator, was released from captivity Thursday and said she had been treated well. (AP Photo/Baghdad TV via APTN) | Yahoo
Carroll said she was kept in a comfortable room and could wash easily but could not move beyond the immediate confines of her accommodation.
Carroll, 28, was handed over to the Iraqi Islamic Party office in Amiriya, western Baghdad, by an unknown group. She was later turned over to the Americans and was believed to be in the heavily fortified Green Zone.
~*Yes but they made this journalist wear this costume before she could be released? Dressing a hostage up in anything other than restraints seems like an unnecessary extravagance. The video was taken before Jill Carroll got to the Green Zone; she was in the Islamic Party office at the time? The Iraqis never heard of jeans and a sweatshirt? Is there traditional or religious clothing for Iraq's male hostages too? All released foreign hostages are given by their kidnappers or Iraqi authorities a Koran and a fruit basket as parting-gifts.
No photographs of Jill Carroll when she first arrived in the Green Zone were taken; have been released; will ever be released? Any of her smiling on the phone, or soon after a shower, a change of clothes, a meal?
Kidnappers use cameras as weapons.
Any statements or acknowledgments from the American military concerning hostages only encourages more kidnappings, other demands?
Jill Carroll will be very much in demand.
"Immediate confines of her accomodation"--doesn't that read like a bad translation, or does Jill Carroll speak that way?
"Believed to be in the heavily fortified Green Zone"---doesn't this say more than it should about America's presence in Iraq?
Released hostages in the presence of media can say the darnedest things. Better to give them time to understand their lives are not in danger, their words can no longer condemn them (..to death, that is).
Jill Carroll Update | Christian Science Monitor
Did she have to sign-over to her captors a percentage of her earnings from upcoming book sales, media appearances and movie rights? Did she promise the kidnappers or her agent she'ld wear these clothes everytime she appears in public?
Spitting Image's links to Jill Carroll
>Update: Questioning Jill Carroll | Michelle Malkin
~Media whores at work.
Posted by Stubbornson at March 30, 2006 05:34 AM