Posted on 01/30/2006 4:49:24 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
AL Jazeera television has aired a video tape from an Iraqi militant group showing US hostage Jill Carroll and said she appealed for fellow Americans to press for the release of Iraqi women held by US-led forces.
Carroll, wearing a headscarf, was seen crying in the grainy footage that carried a January28 date stamp and a logo showing the name of the Revenge Brigades militant group. The voice of the 28-year-old journalist kidnapped on January 7, was not heard.
"The American journalist kidnapped in Iraq urged her family and Americans around the world to demand that U.S. military forces and the Iraqi interior (ministry) release all Iraqi women prisoners," the Qatar-based television station said.
"She said that this would help in her release," the station said, without giving further details.
Carroll, a freelance journalist working for the Christian Science Monitor, was abducted in Baghdad by militants who also killed her Iraqi interpreter.
After the airing of the videotape, the Boston-based newspaper issued a fresh appeal for Carroll's release.
"Anyone with a heart will feel distressed that an innocent woman like Jill Carroll would be treated in the manner shown in the latest video aired by Al Jazeera," Christian Science Monitor editor Richard Bergenheim said. "We add our voice to those of Arabs around the world, and especially to those in Iraq, who have condemned this act of kidnapping. We ask that she be returned to the protection of her family immediately."
When she was kidnapped, Carroll had been on her way to a meeting with Adnan al-Dulaimi, a Sunni Arab leader whom she had intended to interview. Dulaimi has also urged her kidnappers to release her.
Carroll's kidnappers set a 72-hour ultimatum which expired about 10 days ago for the US military to free women prisoners in Iraq threatening to kill her.
The US military freed five women prisoners last week, but US and Iraqi officials said their release had been planned and not linked to Carroll's case.
Al Jazeera aired a video showing Carroll on January nd said her abductors threatened to kill her if their demand was not met but did not name the group that kidnapped her.
There has been a spate of kidnappings of Westerners in Iraq inhe past few months after a lull during most of 2005. Four Christian peace activists – a Briton, an American and two Canadians – are still being held captive.
Carroll is the 31st journalist kidnapped in Iraq since the start of the war in March 2003, according to Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres, a media advocacy group.
More than 200 foreigners and thousands of Iraqis have been abducted in the anarchy that followed the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Most foreign hostages have been released, but 54 are known to have been killed; more than 50 are still believed to be held.
No wonder many of them don't leave that hotel in Baghdad.
I don't know but it appears that this woman converted.
She seems to be the enemy now.
Priorities, priorities. First, we have to deal with our DOMESTIC threats—in our case, ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN. In your case, probably just ABC. ;)
What do you base that statement on?
Well, that's a real pansy of a sissy that'll stand there with his face covered and make a young woman cry on camera to beg for her life, particularly when the girl never did anybody any harm. Zarqawi's "jihad" has produced a bunch of limp-wristed punks who act like they just came down from "humpback mountain".
It wont be long before Al Jazzera with its traitor American cast will be debuting on western tv. Gag me.
How can one tell the difference between the up-coming "Western" Al Jazeera, and the alphabet networks we already have?
The video shows her crying and saying something, but there is no sound. Can anybody read lips and tell us what she's saying?
It's just Al Jazeera seems to be the mouthpiece of international terrorism...
You're right. They barely leave that hotel. I can remember seeing them hang out there and some commented that it was days since they had left. Needless to say, I'm sure they keep trying to sell stories about the streets of Baghdad that they barely ever see.
Is anyone surprised that they released prisoners and she is STILL in custody? The killers best move would have been to release her and at least pretend their demands had been met. It would the human thing to do and makes for good PR.
However, they would rather have her beg for her life on TV before they publically zap her, regardless if their demands are ever met.
When will folks figure out the calculus of evil that these guys use? For them, murder and wanton killing are all part of their naracissic fun.
I'll have to think about that one.
On the past results of reporters and terrorists.
See #5.
Could it be the Stockholm syndrome a-la Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army?
Why don't they bomb they hell out of em?
Also if they can't hear her voice, how do they know what she is saying? Lip reading?
These people have no credibility. If there were serious they would have killed her ten days ago. What is scary is if AZ gets a hold of her, THEN it's over for her. The demands are not possible so either way, she won't be released.
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