Posted on 03/30/2006 5:33:19 AM PST by InvisibleChurch
Carroll Says Captors Treated Her Well By MARIAM FAM, Associated Press Writer 21 minutes ago
American reporter Jill Carroll was set free Thursday, nearly three months after she was kidnapped in an ambush that killed her translator, and said she had been treated well.
Carroll apparently was left in the street near the Iraqi Islamic Party offices. She walked inside, and people there called American officials.
"I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped," Carroll said in a brief interview on Baghdad television.
Even though the group threatened twice in videotapes to kill her, Carroll said, "They never hit me. They never said they would hit me."
During the interview, Carroll wore a light green Islamic headscarf and a gray Arabic robe.
"I'm just happy to be free. I want to be with my family," she was heard to say under the Arabic voiceover.
Carroll said she was kept in a room with a window and a shower, but she did not know where she was. Asked about the circumstances of her release, she said, "They just came to me and said we're going. They didn't tell me what was going on."
In Berlin, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she was "pleased" by the news of Carroll's release.
Stockholm syndrome is when someone is captured and, as a psychological defense mechanism, they begin to take on the views of their captors. They seem to "switch sides" to some extent.
Personally, I think this is not Stockholm syndrome. I think she was in on it from the beginning. I think the translator was killed as an inconvenient witness to the pre-arranged rendez-vous with Carroll and the terrorists.
I could be wrong. But any responsible journalist will ask these questions and begin a full investigation of who this woman really is. I think such an investigation will uncover her as an outright traitor, and complicit in her translator's death.
I had no feelings on this one at all which surprized me. Maybe I just am getting used to the kidnapping and beheading. If you go over there you take risks. I feel more for the people who have to go find you and risk their lives.
Has there been an instance of a woman hostage killed? Maybe she was treated well and not harmed because she was a woman? I can't think of a case where a woman hostage was killed, but I am willing to stand corrected.
There was a British aid official named Margaret Hassan who was killed.
What other rules do they have for their politics??? I understand they are pretty left wing... Wasn't Mary Baker Eddy their progenitor?
I don't pay much attention to them because: 1. I'm an atheist; and 2. I think they are a bunch of New Age neo-pagan fruitcakes...
Stupid is as stupid does.
Oh yeah, they're quite liberal.
Yes, old Mary Baker Eddy was the big mama of the faith.
She was released because she finished her book.....
Stockholm's syndrome.
I agree with you. IT were a set up. I just think that liberals are all victim of a Stockholm syndrome with respect to terror in America, though. They just do not want to fight back.
I should have not said "victim" because, really, it all is based in narcissism. THe ones fighting back are the truer victims, imo.
Since she was treated so well, perhaps she would like to go back and stay with her captors.
I believe that she went over to THEIR side! Probably fell in love and has a lover now. heh!
"They treated her well, but her translator is dead. Since he was just a local, I guess his death is a matter of no great importance."
An Iraqi's death is only important if caused by the US Military. Then it is of supreme importance.
Maybe the translator was a security agent working for the Iraqi government.
Stockholm syndrome?
I agree, I wondered this, too. I'm sure that Jill is quite shell shocked, after 3 mos of captivity, and seems to be displaying symptoms of Stockholm syndrome, sympathy for and identifying with her captors, who, it seems, did indeed treat her well. But what a propaganda tool she unwittingly becomes. Hopefully, counseling and debriefing will be provided for her. She has been in captivity for nearly 3 mos, witnessed the murder, or was told of it?, of her interpreter. I wonder how she will react or what she will think when/if presented with the footage of herself as a tearful, frightened hostage pleading for her release in the January tapes? A good first sign will be seeing her drop the head covering and putting on some western style clothes.
You: "Maybe the translator was a security agent working for the Iraqi government."
Me: So maybe it was something like -
- The enemy finds out that her translator is an Iraqi or American agent. (Who told them???)
- The enemy grants her an interview (only for the purpose of kidnapping/killing the translator).
- The translator smells a rat early on, and balks or resists and is killed, or the plan was always to kill him at the time of her kidnapping.
- The reporter is kidnapped, as the original plan included her being kidnapped anyway.
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