American Hostage Jill Carroll Free from The Jawa Report
American journalist Jill Carroll has been freed by her captors. This post will be updated throughout the day. Jill Carroll had been held hostage for nearly three months by a terrorist organization calling itself 'The Revenge Brigades'. The group killed... [Read More]

Tracked on March 30, 2006 9:44 AM

BREAKING: Kidnapped Journalist Jill Carroll Has Been Released!!! from RightWinged.com
***SCROLL FOR UPDATES*** Just saw a Fox News alert (but no stories posted on the internet yet), that kidnapped journalist Jill Carroll has finally been released... This comes just a day after her sister went on Arab TV station Al... [Read More]

Tracked on March 30, 2006 7:01 PM

Good news. Maybe it finally dawned on her captors that "the Christian Science Monitor" wasn't quite the neocon propaganda rag they might have assumed it to be based solely on its name (although the "science" bit must've thrown them off too)

Its like the antrax that was sent to "American Media" in Florida. Some idiot probably thought they were poisoning the NY Times and not, in reality, the National Enquirer.

I'm not quite sure what Jill Carroll's editor means when he says that "she[']s in good condition" or what she means when she alleges that her captors "treated her well."

Obviously, it is wonderful news that she has been released and seems to have been spared torture or worse, but having been kidnapped and held for three months is hardly being "treated well."

As for being in "good condition," I guess only time will tell. She has to live with the memory of her translator having been killed and all of the other--I suspect, negative--memories of being held against her will, being daily threatened with death, not being able to get in touch with her family, not knowing if she would ever be free again or see her friends and loved ones, etc.

These threats and hardships hardly meet the definition of being treated well or being in good condition. I suppose that in the euphoria of having been freed, Jill Carroll appears to have been treated well--she's not dead--and appears to be in good condition--she hasn't been physically tortured or maimed--but if you stop to think about this language of "peace" and "appeasement" when you consider what actually happened, it's more than a little perverse.

Alice is jumping into the rabbit hole.

Kathy- are hostages in Iraq being taken, now, for ideological reasons, or, more likely, as part of an economic agenda?

In Central America, after the withdrawal of Soviet Union funds, many of the Marxist rebels turned to hostage taking (and drugs) as their economic mode of life. Ideology is, after all, usually superficial and confined to the aberrant few.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, the tribal members who have been removed from power, have turned to hostage taking as a source of funds. They can always cover it by ideology but the real agenda is money. And, Iran and SA have moved in as well, to fund these groups.

Bit o' Stockholm syndrom here?

She looks like she's gone all dhimmi though. Did she convert to Islam?

Isn't it interesting that despite all of these hostages' insistence of being treated well by their captors, even the MSM terms "safe and free" as being with the American military?

I may be mistaken, but I thought I read somewhere that Jill was a loose cannon, doing freelance work for the CSM and sympathetic to terrorist elements. Seeing her on the news today with her pious Muslim demeanor replete with costume isn't adding up. Color me skeptical.

She was naive and foolish for starters in putting herself in danger.

Maybe it's me, but there seems to be a pattern of letting useful idiots go unharmed recently.

Is it just me or wouldn't any self-respecting, non-muslim, Western woman yank off that hijab the moment I'd been freed??

Without wanting to be politically incorrect & offend too many democrats and anti-war activists, I say send the Islamofascist symphatizer back if she can't seriously give her head a shake.

What does that hijab do to Muslim women? Transport them back into the sixth century?

Sarcasm Alert: Irony, a word-weapon drenched in acid. Good work, LGF.

"Her interpreter, murdered during the kidnapping, was not available for comment." : LGF. +

Hostage Jill Carroll Freed

Here’s a great post with lots of links on the freeing of American journalist Jill Carroll, at The Jawa Report.

UPDATE at 3/30/06 8:52:14 am:

She says the terrorists treated her well.

Her interpreter, murdered during the kidnapping, was not available for comment. via LGF +

I read an article about her a few weeks ago. She was an out-of-work journalist looking for a calling, and decided to immerse herself in arab culture, learn the language, wear the clothing, and "tell the story" of the Iraqi people living under "occupation". While, from most accounts, her reporting was quite good and quite fair, her bias was clear. However, I'm guessing her stockholm syndrome will wear off far quicker than our Christian WarMakers. The video where she was panicked and crying was revealing - there's a brain and a heart under that hijab, and I'm guessing it will emerge. On a related note, if you haven't read ex-feminist Phyllis Chesler's memoir of her year living as a captive muslim bride in Afghanistan in 1961, you must. Ms. Carroll should take a look.

Sooz: I can tell you that if it was this Western woman, it would be burnt!

Why is it that if someone doesn't agree with lgf politics-they are attacked after going through something like that?

Would you feel better if they murdered her too?

Reporters Without Borders, which has kept up a months-long international support campaign for Iraqi kidnappers to free journalists - including Jill - issued a statement Thursday calling her release "a huge relief." The organization praised the "exemplary courage and determination of her family," and the global effort, overall.

"We thank all those throughout the world, particularly the major Arabic media, who campaigned for the release of this young journalist.... Our campaign will not be over until the three Iraqi reporters, Rim Zeid, Marwan Khazaal and Ali Abdullah Fayad have been released in their turn."

Nice catch Penny. Your spot on. As serial & mass murders there trying to be in there own inept way tring to employ some low cunning towardss future propaganda. Why not let the Morons go & spew there acid about. They have plenty of real Westeners to chop off heads. Let the appeasers go & continue to shout there misinformation. Than look merciful. Its not going to work.

Dressing the way she did Jill Carroll , has shown her true sympathies are for the killers.
She should see a theripist. I am surprised though she missed the rape camps, set up by the "Religion of Peace" to teach uppity females a point.

Steve in BC: No I don't think anyone above even came close to implying that! The risks she took, stupid. How many lives have been needlessly put on the line for people with good intentions but got themselves in over their head? I am glad that her life was spared, she is a very lucky woman. It would have been a very different story if it was a different group (terrorist) that had taken her. AND I still would have burnt that GOD aweful outfit!

Hey, steve, the little useful idiot's Iraqi translator was shot by her captors. He wasn't treated as well by her captors. Does this trouble your little bubbleheaded idiot? Hardly.

Her little pious Muslim shtick is pathetic.

Let's put it this way, any real NA cowgirl of calibre would have cursed her captors to hell and back in the first seconds of her release.

Just looking at her smarmy pathetic apologist face, if she were my daughter, she wouldn't have earned her bedroom back.

I know tough talk is hard on your lefty sensitivities. Do I care? Hell, no.

"I know tough talk is hard on your lefty sensitivities."

And I know tough talk is real easy from behind a keyboard.

"Just looking at her smarmy pathetic apologist face, if she were my daughter, she wouldn't have earned her bedroom back."

It's fun to watch people consumed by their own hatred. I feel sorry for your actual children, in the event you've successfully bred one. *shudder*

"She was naive and foolish for starters in putting herself in danger."

Something you obviously wouldn't do to forward your ideals. It's easier to fight your battles on the blogs, isn't it.

Who has guts here, you with your pathetic judgement from behind a computer? LOL.

Angryflower(how trite and hackneyed a nomiker), here's the deal: there are millions of us "behind a computer" making a difference by doggedly hunting down MSM and leftist bs and making citizen's journalism something to reckon with.

steve, how timely for "Angeryflower" to come to your defense - any relationship? Just curious. You wouldn't, steve, have "friends" that on perfect timing come to your defense? Nah. Our, steve, is too honest a troll?

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Jill Carroll was released. But her appearance on TV makes me very uncomfortable.

She stresses several time that she received "very good treatment" from her captors. She was kept in a very nice "safe room", it had "nice furniture", she was able to shower and go to the bathroom, and they gave her food. She watched TV once and was given a newspaper once.

Hmmm, almost sounds like a nice 2 star all inclusive?? It would all sound like some wacky adventure she went on if it weren't for that nasty bit about her translator getting killed and all.

She took pains at the end of her interview to say "it's very important people know I was treated well."

Why is it important to know that? Does that lessen their crime? Is it to generate sympathy for these people?

She says that the captors seemed to be "trustworthy people". Huh?? Can you trust your translator with these people Jill?

Why couldn't she acknowledge her sadness that her translator was murdered? Why couldn't she denounce her captors for this violence?

If they treated her really well and are trustworthy people, why was she filmed crying and pleading for help??

I pray that it's all just a case of Stockholm syndrome that will soon wear off once she hits US soil. Otherwise, count me in the disgusted column.

Lost soul has committed suicide; the walking dead.

Islam: the religion of the sword and Kool-Aid. +

Voice: Do you have a message for Mr. Bush?

Carroll: (Laughs)Yeah, he needs to stop this war. He knows this war is wrong. He knows that it was illegal from the very beginning. He knows that it was built on a mountain of lies and I think he needs to finally admit that to the American people and make the troops go home and he doesn’t care about his own people.
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The Mujahideen Interview Jill Carroll

A video has appeared on the internet, apparently showing ex-hostage Jill Carroll in an interview conducted by her kidnappers before they released her. (Hat tip: jimo.)

“Did you think the American army or the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) would save you at any time,” a muffled male voice asked Ms Carroll in accented English.

“Sometimes I thought maybe that they might come, they might find me, they might find a way to know where I am and come get me,” she answered.

“Why did not they save you?” asked the interviewer.

“I think the mujahedeen are very smart and even with all the technology and all the people that the American army has here, they still are better at knowing how to live and work here, more clever,” she said.

“Does this mean something to you?” the man questioning her asked.

“It makes very clear that the mujahedeen are the ones that will win in the end,” Ms Carroll said in the video. + more
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

They've already won, or rather bush and rummy lost it a long time ago.

Did she really say they didn't threaten her???
All this time I thought that they were threatening to kill her. Silly me.

She's a traitor with her statements.

Kill the bitch.

Odd how 'angry flower' disappeared and then reappeared as 'steve in bc.' Quite a trick.

The woman was kidnapped and her translator murdered. Then on her release (why was she released?), all decked out as a muslim, she goes out of her way to say they treated her well?

A programmed plant. The media and 'steve in bc' have been duped, as usual.

Irwin...leave the multiple personality stuff to Penny.

You know, if anyone that was for this war was captured and returned safely - I would be celebrating their release. Doesn't bother me if that's something you can't understand. Maybe, she's telling the truth and she was well treated...if you think that all Iraqi's are monsters, then her experience will not be one you want to hear.

Do you get have your talking points given to you pre-chewed?

steve in bc,

"Do you get have your talking points given to you pre-chewed?"

Do you have trouble typing sentences while chewing?

"Maybe she's telling the truth and she was well treated...if you think that ALL IRAQI'S ARE MONSTERS..."

She was kidnapped. Her translator was murdered. Comprende?

Jill Carroll has changed her tune, as she steps off a U.S. Hercules, by the looks of it, a free woman.

One wonders if her saying what she did in the video just before she was released by her captors--denouncing U.S. policy in Iraq and George W. Bush--was under duress or whether she's recognized that she's really angered a lot of people.

It's easy to denounce the government of a country which you know won't imprison you, because freedom of speech protects your right to say pretty much whatever you want. Now I wonder if she'll denounce the Islamist fundamentalist extremists who kidnapped her and, apparently, brainwashed her--or at least threatened her to say the things she did...