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JILL CARROLL RELEASED UNHARMED (Update: Jill praises mujahedeen in new video statement!)
SBS New ^ | 3/31/06 | SBS News

Posted on 03/30/2006 4:13:18 PM PST by jimbo123

American reporter Jill Carroll has been released after a three-month hostage ordeal in Iraq and was with US officials inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone.

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Video interview

A video posted on the internet, which could not be independently verified, showed Ms Carroll in an interview apparently conducted by her captors before they released her.

"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.

At the end of the eight and a half minute tape, the same man read out a statement in Arabic.

"The mujahedeen in the land of the two rivers announce the liberation of the journalist Jill Carroll... after the US forces and the CIA failed to find her making their ineptitude obvious to the whole world," he said.

"We liberate this journalist today after the American government met some of our demands by releasing some of our women prisoners."

(Excerpt) Read more at 9.sbs.com.au ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aidandcomfort; collaborator; iraq; jillcarroll; stockholmsyndrome; susanneosthoff
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To: jimbo123

To quote Charles Johnson, Grand Master Lizard of the LGF Minions:

"Carroll's interpreter, murdered during the kidnapping, could not be reached for comment."


21 posted on 03/30/2006 4:31:35 PM PST by Right Cal Gal (Conservatives know the names of Tookie's VICTIMS!!)
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To: Velveeta
Oh for goodness sakes.

She was interviewed by her CAPTORS.

You know, those people who chop off heads.

Your comments are a welcome breath of sanity. But I don't know if that's what most people want here.

22 posted on 03/30/2006 4:31:37 PM PST by 68skylark
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To: jimbo123
Between this and all the xenophobic hatred and illogic about the border issue, I'm beginning to wonder if all the stereotypes about conservatives might just be true.

It's pretty obvious this poor girl has Stockholm Syndrome. She instinctively figured out a way to make her captors like her, by agreeing with their twisted ideas.

It got her released. So there is an upside with the syndrome.

23 posted on 03/30/2006 4:33:16 PM PST by narby (Evolution is the new "third rail" in American politics)
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To: Right Cal Gal

Sad that Carroll praises the same people who put 2 bullets in the head of her interpreter.


24 posted on 03/30/2006 4:33:26 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: Velveeta

My crystal ball sees Janeane Garafalo playing her in a Hollywood pro-terrorist fabriaction...


25 posted on 03/30/2006 4:35:20 PM PST by citizencon
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To: jimbo123

The sentence structure is all screwed up, I think they handed her a script.


26 posted on 03/30/2006 4:36:29 PM PST by discostu (raise your glass of beer on high, and seal your fate forever)
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To: stickandpucknut
"she got released cause the brainwashing is done"

You're assuming that she had a brain to begin with.

27 posted on 03/30/2006 4:36:38 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: 68skylark

Sometimes I wonder if people posting here are 13 years old.

Oh wait, my 13 old would know better.


28 posted on 03/30/2006 4:41:15 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: jimbo123
Even sadder is the fact that Jill says nothing about "activist" the late Tom Fox, murdered for being American, albeit an incredibly stupid one.

I have never for a second believed that this woman was kidnapped. I think that she was hand in glove with some terrorist boyfriend. When no ransom money was forthcoming, and her name slipped to the back pages of the MSM, Jill was "released". Now, where is Keith Maupin?
29 posted on 03/30/2006 4:41:51 PM PST by ishabibble
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To: jimbo123

You're surrounded by your captors.

You've seen your interpreter murdered.

Without a doubt they have guns drawn and a dull knife standing by....

What would YOU have said?


30 posted on 03/30/2006 4:49:06 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: citizencon

Well, I can see that happening.

Michael Moore is probably drooling about now.


31 posted on 03/30/2006 4:50:19 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: Velveeta; 68skylark

Maybe you two ought to see the video she "made" before you judge the rest of us.

She was SMILING.


32 posted on 03/30/2006 4:51:02 PM PST by Howlin ("It doesn't have a policy. It doesn't need to have a policy. What's the point of a Democratic policy)
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To: citizencon
Good eye......... there is a resemblance.
33 posted on 03/30/2006 4:51:54 PM PST by beyond the sea (Claire De Lune - ........ 1862)
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To: ishabibble
Thank you for remembering Keith Maupin. How hard it must be for his family when this silly woman opens her mouth.


I do think the terrorists wanted to release her before she was rescued. They did not want another setback.
34 posted on 03/30/2006 4:52:03 PM PST by Patriot from Philly
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To: Blood of Tyrants; Windsong; jimbo123
It is the captive syndrome. She has begun to believe the captors.

Unless it was a fake kidnapping.

35 posted on 03/30/2006 4:52:23 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Howlin

I did see it.

I also heard how she spoke...

Very slowly, enunciating carefully. Almost an arabic accented English so her captors would understand her every word.

It was scripted.

She read it, she smiled sweetly and her captors bought it.


36 posted on 03/30/2006 4:54:31 PM PST by Velveeta
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To: Velveeta

No way. She was a sympathizer before they nabbed her.


37 posted on 03/30/2006 4:55:49 PM PST by Howlin ("It doesn't have a policy. It doesn't need to have a policy. What's the point of a Democratic policy)
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To: narby

The stereotypes about conservatives are not true by in large.

Sometime back there was talk of Storm Front infiltrating this site. It is something I have not forgotten. In addition, there is a good chance that some of the loudest voices are not here to move the conservative movement forward.

I'm glad Jill was released. We will know more eventually. The least we can do is refrain from judging her until she can catch her breath and recover.


38 posted on 03/30/2006 4:58:27 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: Howlin

You may be absolutely correct.

I just think that we need to wait until she is completely out of danger before we can judge her statements.

If she continues to sing this tune once she gets home, that is another story.


39 posted on 03/30/2006 5:01:37 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: Howlin

She was against the war, that's true.

But she wasn't a Cindy Sheehan-like mujahideen apologist.


40 posted on 03/30/2006 5:02:07 PM PST by Velveeta
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