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Carroll Followed Her Ambition to Iraq
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| 3/30/6
| ADAM GORLICK
Posted on 03/30/2006 10:23:55 AM PST by SmithL
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The more we hear from her, the more it's apparent what her ambitions are who her devotions are to.
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posted on
03/30/2006 10:23:56 AM PST
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
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posted on
03/30/2006 10:25:24 AM PST
by
La Enchiladita
(Walk softly, carry a big stick... and don't forget to connect the dots ...)
To: SmithL
I don't know how she squares "being treated well" with "watching her translator get murdered in cold blood by her kidnappers".
To: SmithL
The more we hear from her, the more it's apparent what her ambitions are who her devotions are to.Well lots of people are ambitious. In America, it's more of a virtue than a sin.
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posted on
03/30/2006 10:27:41 AM PST
by
68skylark
To: SmithL
Having watched her post release interview several times, I have to wonder why she was crying and begging the coalition to submit to the terrorists' demands? She says she wasn't beaten, tortured, threatened and was otherwise treated quite well.
What gives?
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posted on
03/30/2006 10:27:53 AM PST
by
Racehorse
(Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
To: Numbers Guy
Ditto ! The poor translator has been forgotten.
But she sure has made a name for herself,hasn't she?
She said they didn't do her any harm but what about her parents? I can't imagine what they went through.
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posted on
03/30/2006 10:29:23 AM PST
by
Mears
(The Killer Queen-caviar and cigarettes.)
To: SmithL
Despite her language skills, Carroll used an Iraqi translator the day she was kidnapped. The abduction took place when the translator and Carroll were heading to meet Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the Sunni Arab Iraqi Accordance Front. Hmmm -- I wonder what happened to the translator. I guess it isn't important or the great journalists at the AP would have mentioned it.
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posted on
03/30/2006 10:29:35 AM PST
by
68skylark
To: Racehorse
Maybe like the German woman hostage in the recent past she too was a convert and the kidnapping was fake.
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posted on
03/30/2006 10:30:49 AM PST
by
Shermy
To: Racehorse
Arggg...Time for an Expose' before she becomes annointed saint by the press. Whenever she turns on the happy face she needs to be asked about the slaughter of her fellow human interpretor.
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posted on
03/30/2006 10:31:07 AM PST
by
samadams2000
(Somebody important make The Call.....pitchforks and lanterns.!)
To: La Enchiladita; Numbers Guy
Hello, she's just been released from being captive for four months, you know that can have a greta psychological impact on someone. I'm sure being a captive for four months would have no impact on you, but not every one is a superhero.
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posted on
03/30/2006 10:32:06 AM PST
by
nickcarraway
(I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
To: 68skylark
He was just an easily discarded appendage. Plenty more where he came from!
To: Racehorse
Her press conferences from captivity seemed to be scripted by Mel Brooks: "OH! Do What He Say! Do What He Say!"
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posted on
03/30/2006 10:34:14 AM PST
by
SmithL
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: SmithL
Note to Jill:
Learn Italian...it's at least a little safer.Except,perhaps,in Sicily.
To: SmithL
One of her former professors at UMass, Howard ZiffHUGE Leftist and hater of this country.
Tells me a lot.
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posted on
03/30/2006 10:37:30 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Never question Bruce Dickinson!)
To: ClearCase_guy
I've heard of this man. What does he "teach" at UMass?
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posted on
03/30/2006 10:41:10 AM PST
by
RexBeach
("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
To: SmithL
"University of Massachusetts in 1999"
Now it all makes sense!
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posted on
03/30/2006 10:44:58 AM PST
by
mlc9852
To: SmithL
My favorite part of this absurd tail was after she was captured and her poor family was trying to show what a sweet heart she was sent out a tape showing her under a scarf, another scene she was helping arab children, in another (this is what cracked me up) she was at a family celebration and she was waiving and saying "Merry Christmas" - which was probably a big hit in the muslim world.
To: 68skylark
He was of course murdered. But if she is fluent in Arabic, why the need for a translator to begin with?
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posted on
03/30/2006 10:46:40 AM PST
by
mlc9852
To: mlc9852
"He was of course murdered. But if she is fluent in Arabic, why the need for a translator to begin with?"
I doubt she was actually fluent in Arabic. More likely, she had taken classes in Arabic, and could get along OK in the language. That would be much more likely.
I'm holding off on any comments about her until she is somewhere out of Iraq and able to speak for herself freely.
The speculations here are way out of line, given how little we actually know at this point.
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posted on
03/30/2006 10:49:11 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: MineralMan
You and your logical approach to everything! Taking all the fun out of this story!:)
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posted on
03/30/2006 10:51:51 AM PST
by
mlc9852
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