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Something smells in the case of released hostage Jill Carroll.
4-1-06 | JABBERBONK

Posted on 03/31/2006 3:38:24 AM PST by JABBERBONK

Seems Jill Carroll is refusing to talk to authorities concerning her captives. She already has been caught lying in her post release interview where she says she was not threatened, since she was on video with AK- 47's trained on her head. Stokholm syndrome???? I'm not buying it...how about you?


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1 posted on 03/31/2006 3:38:25 AM PST by JABBERBONK
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To: JABBERBONK

I thought that the minute they kept extending the deadline.


2 posted on 03/31/2006 3:39:06 AM PST by Perdogg (The Opinions expressed by Perdogg are correct and should be relied upon)
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To: JABBERBONK
Stokholm syndrome????

No, just "Useful idiot"...

3 posted on 03/31/2006 3:40:48 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Freedom isn't free, but the men and women of the military will pay most of your share)
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To: COBOL2Java

Or active participant.


4 posted on 03/31/2006 3:41:32 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: JABBERBONK
More likely - Patty Hearst Syndrome


5 posted on 03/31/2006 3:42:29 AM PST by sono ("If Congressional brains were cargo, there'd be nothing to unload." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: JABBERBONK
Some here may criticize you for daring to question her motives.(not me)
6 posted on 03/31/2006 3:43:53 AM PST by airborne (Satan's greatest trick was convincing people he doesn't exist.)
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To: JABBERBONK

She seems a little to perky to suit me.


7 posted on 03/31/2006 3:44:22 AM PST by CAWats (And I will make no distinction between terrorists and the democrats.)
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To: JABBERBONK

I'm buying a "peace activist" setup.


8 posted on 03/31/2006 3:45:14 AM PST by Reactionary (The Moonbats Need an Enema)
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To: JABBERBONK
One complication in the analysis is that they killed her translator with whom she was apparently friendly...

If it was a setup from the beginning it seems like they could have avoided killing...that would make her an accessory to murder.
9 posted on 03/31/2006 3:46:17 AM PST by gondramB (Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.)
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To: JABBERBONK

Unless her story changes drastically once she is out of Iraq, I completely agree. Something is amiss.


10 posted on 03/31/2006 3:46:25 AM PST by Kimberly GG
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Iraqi Groups Seek Journalist's Release By Firas Al-Atraqchi Thursday 19 January 2006, 4:56 Makka Time, 1:56 GMT Carroll wrote for the Christian Science Monitor from Iraq A day after Aljazeera aired video of kidnapped journalist Jill Carroll, several prominent Iraqi groups have demanded her immediate and unconditional release. Muthana Harith al-Dhari, head of the influential Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS), condemned and denounced all violent acts that expose innocent citizens – regardless of their identities – to danger. Al-Dhari told Iraqi television: "Regarding the recent kidnapping of the American journalist [Jill Carroll] ... This journalist is one of the anti-occupation journalists. Indeed, she wrote many articles that explain the negative signs of the occupation. Also, in a recent story, she focused on the violations performed by government security forces against civilians. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/80454A4B-558E-49A7-ABDD-C488064270B9.htm
11 posted on 03/31/2006 3:47:17 AM PST by TennesseeGirl
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To: JABBERBONK

Will she join forces with Cindy Sheehan?


12 posted on 03/31/2006 3:47:40 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: JABBERBONK
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.
13 posted on 03/31/2006 3:48:31 AM PST by TennesseeGirl
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To: JABBERBONK
Count me in as a Skeptic.

It's all just a little too good to be true, not to have ben initially orchestrated or a result of conversion on some level.

14 posted on 03/31/2006 3:48:31 AM PST by Kakaze (I'm now a single issue voter.....exterminate Al Quaida)
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To: JABBERBONK

Ugly Rachel Corrie look-alike elitist liberal - never should have been there - socialist - i love terrorists and hate America - moronic ahole.


15 posted on 03/31/2006 3:49:31 AM PST by Doc Savage (Of all these things you can be sure, only love...will endure.......................)
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To: Kimberly GG

"Unless her story changes drastically once she is out of Iraq, I completely agree. Something is amiss."

That's a fair point - if this is not a total setup I can see where she would nopt feel safe anywhere on Iraqi soil.


16 posted on 03/31/2006 3:49:50 AM PST by gondramB (Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.)
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"The irony of Carroll’s kidnapping is that it has been journalists like herself who have taken great risks to immerse themselves in the real Iraq to get the real stories. Stories not about the war itself, but about the war’s impact on average Iraqis. “Journalists are here to tell the world about the occupation, so kidnapping a journalist is going to hide the truth,” said Muthana Harith al-Dari on Wednesday. Dari, a leader of Iraq’s Muslim Scholars Associations, an umbrella group for a number of leading Sunni clerics, issued a plea to the kidnappers to let Carroll free. “She is considered one of the best journalists who stood against the American occupation of Iraq and she focused her articles on telling the world about the Iraqi people’s suffering.” http://www.italknews.com/view_story.php?menu=&submenu=World&sid=1223
17 posted on 03/31/2006 3:51:02 AM PST by TennesseeGirl
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To: CAWats; airborne
Someone suggested that Jeanine Garofalo would be a fine pick to play her in the upcoming movie. I agree.

;-)

18 posted on 03/31/2006 3:51:53 AM PST by beyond the sea (Claire De Lune - ........ 1862)
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To: JABBERBONK
She already has been caught lying in her post release interview where she says she was not threatened, since she was on video with AK- 47's trained on her head.

Allow me to speculate.

IF Jill Carroll was a willing participant in a fake kidnapping for ransom, and...

IF the video showing the AK-47 trained at her head was staged as part of that fake kidnapping for ransom...

THEN her statement that she was not threatened is completely truthful.

Of course, that would also make her complicit in the death of her translator, who was shot it the course of her alleged abduction, wouldn't it?

19 posted on 03/31/2006 3:55:45 AM PST by bondjamesbond (Rice '08)
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To: Kakaze

I don't have a dog in this, but her translator was killed at the kidnapping.


20 posted on 03/31/2006 3:58:25 AM PST by battlegearboat
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