JILL CARROLL RELEASED UNHARMED (Update: Jill praises mujahedeen in new video statement!)

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[68skylark]

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.

Good comments -- thanks.

Emotions run high during a war -- that's natural, I guess. And we're all disappointed in previous hostages who praised terrorists after their release (like the Italian reporter a few months back). But that's not a good reason to act churlishly toward Ms. Carroll's release -- it's still okay just to be glad she's alive.

[Patriot from Philly]

I must admit that I have changed in my opinion of Carroll. The first thing that struck me odd was how quiet the media kept the story; then her parents' comments really annoyed me; the groveling-the hints "she is your ally". But then I thought, but they are desperate. But still...

Then the weird tapes...one crying, one calm.

This morning's comments made me really suspect her. I hope I'm wrong.

[ishabibble]

Keith is a bead on my Rosary every night. He is all of them for me. On the sunny side, my own USMC arrived home Monday night. Currently honeymooning with the wife!

I would bet my eye teeth that there is a hot looking terrorist in this story. Jill did it all for love. I'd bet the farm on that. OTT, she didn't belong there in the first place, but then neither did the very dead Mr. Fox.

[68skylark]

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

I like your comments. I'd just add that people sometimes take months or years to "process" a genuinely traumatic experience. Let's not be too quick to try to make Ms. Carroll into an enemy, no matter what she says. Let's keep the focus where it matters -- on terrorists who do crimes like this.

[Patriot from Philly]

I have to remember to say a rosary for Keith too. I hope he's found alive. Great about your USMC. That's good news.

I remember early in the Afghan war right after 9/11 there were 4 Christian missionaries held captive by the Talliban government and on trial for spreading false religion or something.

They were rescued and the minute they were free..they tore the burkas and veils off.

Jill seemed quite comfortable with hers.

[KurtZ]

The video of her being interviewed that I saw on Fox News, was that done by her kidnappers or some independent news outlet?

[TennesseeGirl]

"It is the captive syndrome. She has begun to believe the captors."

Was this tongue-in-cheek? Here's a link and an excerpt you might find interesting: http://www.mentalmayhem.org/newswire/2006/01/jordan_times_ed.html

Jordan Times Editorial: Our Jill

(excerpted) The kidnappers who abducted her could not have chosen a more wrong target. True, Jill is a US citizen. But she is also more critical of US policies towards the Middle East than many Arabs.

Though as a reporter she always complies with the strictest requirements of objectivity and impartiality, Jill has been from day one opposed to the war, to the invasion and occupation of Iraq. More than just being sympathetic with average Iraqis under war and occupation, Jill is a true believer in Arab causes.

From Arabic food to the Arabic language, Jill has always wanted to know and experience as much as possible about Arab identity, and she is keen on absorbing it, learning, understanding and respecting it. She doesn't just "like" Arab culture, she loves it.

[VOA]

"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

Nice to hear old Jill is supporting the home team.
Her home team of Islamic terrorism.

[KavMan]

This is going to be Clooney's new Anti-American movie

[cripplecreek]

I thought she was good in Scary Movie 2.

[Howlin]

A little "overdone," if you ask me.

[MizSterious]

Same here. The translator that died during the "kidnapping" was Christian--probably expendable in their eyes. She was in on this from the gitgo.

[muawiyah]

Of course these are the same guys who murdered her translator.

I suspect she's simply trying to avoid riling them up.

[MizSterious]

Release or no release, from the beginning I thought she was working with them.

[muawiyah]

She doesn't have Stockholm Syndrome. She has a bad case of fear ~ remember, these same guys murdered her translator. Odds are they raped her several times a day (woman alone you know), and it will take her a while to decompress.

In the meantime the MSM will feed on her until finally they have gorged enough.

[MizSterious]

I beg your pardon? Since when is suspecting a traitor indicative of adolescence?

[Paul C. Jesup]

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

Doesn't that make her and "accessory to murder after the fact"...

[airborne]

Wonder what her translator thinks.

(Oh, that's right. She got murdered)

[MizSterious]

That might have explained this interview, but certainly not the ones she gave after she was released.

[marajade]

what a wacko broad