[gondramB]

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.

[Beckwith]

it seems like they could have avoided killing ...

There you go again ... thinking like a rational person.

The Jihadists like to kill. They are psychopaths and serial murderers that have been given a license to commit murder by their religion, its prophet, its writings and its priests.

[Captain Rhino]

Driving home form work last evening, I heard a report that there were two groups involved in her kidnapping. The hysterical first video was apparently made while she was in the hands of the first group and comes off as the standard kidnap for ransom group. (The translator was probably killed because 1) he had little/no ransom value, 2) he could probably identify the kidnappers, 3) he tried to interfere, 4)anybody working for Westerners is de facto proof they are a apostate/traitor, and 5) standard practice since the bodyguards, drivers and translators always seem to be killed in these incidents.)

Later, she supposedly was bought by/given to an Islamist Group which held her for the majority of her captivity. The political party she was released to was also involved in her kidnapping since it was an official of the same party that she was going to interview when the kidnapping went down. The official was conveniently absent from the scene at the time.

I'm not sure about her role in the original kidnapping. As some one else commented, she liked her translator. However, collusion is not out of the question. She is somewhat suspect already because she is a long time student of Arabic language and culture. And we have the example of the two left-wing Italian women journalists that probably did collude in their kidnapping to raise money for the terrorists and embarrass the Italian government.

However, she may just be keeping prudently silent on the details while she is still in Iraq. She may have gotten a warning prior to her release that she could still be harmed if she said anything bad about her captors.

[Lee'sGhost]

Yeah, the translator's death really is a sticky wicket for her, isn't it. The fact that she is showing more concern about how her abductors are viewed than she is for the murdered translator or his family pretty much tells me all I need to know about this PUTRID LIB.

[Amalie]

"that would make her an accessory to murder."

If she is a true believer, the ends always justify the means. I agree with the others, I smell a set-up; she might have been in the midst of them, but I think she was there on her own volition and planned to make this a big anti-war "why can't we all just get along" deal" from the start.

[John D]

One complication in the analysis is that they killed her translator with whom she was apparently friendly



Muslims do not mind sacrificing one of their own on order to further their cause.

[Safetgiver]

The translator was a Christian...hence he got offed in the name of Allah. She is part and parcel to the whole thing IMO.

[derllak]

But that's okay, because they were SO nice to her! Kind of sickened me the way she went on and on about how well she was treated. Nevermind all the rest who were tortured and beheaded!