BS: US Reporter Jill Carroll Freed in Iraq

Subject: RE: BS: Jill Carroll Freed in Iraq
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 12:58 PM

I agree, Wolfgang. When she said there had been no threats made against her that didn't ring true at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Jill Carroll Freed in Iraq
From: Wolfgang
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 10:28 AM

Thanks for that link, Ebbie. Her initial statement sounded a bit wrong. That explains it.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Jill Carroll Freed in Iraq
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Apr 06 - 04:58 PM

Not Surprising

Subject: RE: BS: Jill Carroll Freed in Iraq
From: open mike
Date: 31 Mar 06 - 01:32 AM

good news--please combine threads
i didn't see this one.

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Threads combined.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: BS: U.S. Reporter Released by IraqiCaptors
From: open mike
Date: 31 Mar 06 - 01:29 AM

Jill Carroll was released unharmed today.
She is a free lance reporter for Christian
Science Monitor.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1743688,00.html

Subject: RE: BS: Jill Carroll Freed in Iraq
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Mar 06 - 09:07 PM

She was very lucky to survive. Credit to her for how well she dealt with her captives, and credit to her family and friends in the message they tried to communicate to her captives. Hostage situations such as these could go bad in so many ways. It is a miracle that this one came up with a happy ending. Some credit is also due her captives for recognizing her for the kind of person she was rather than as a symbol of the oppressors, and for deciding eventually that it made more sense to release her.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Jill Carroll Freed in Iraq
From: Peace
Date: 30 Mar 06 - 07:20 PM

US hostage Jill Carroll released in Baghdad

· Journalist survived two deadlines in 82-day ordeal
· No deal made to secure release, says ambassador

Jonathan Steele in Baghdad and Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Friday March 31, 2006
The Guardian


Eighty-two days after she was dragged from her car at gunpoint, American journalist Jill Carroll was free yesterday, walking unharmed into the branch office of an Iraqi political party in one of the most dangerous suburbs of Baghdad.
Carrying a slip of paper in Arabic identifying her as a kidnapped American, Ms Carroll, 28, a freelance journalist who had been working in Baghdad for the Christian Science Monitor, arrived at a branch office of the Iraqi Islamic party in the western neighbourhood of Amiriya at about midday.


From the Guardian Unlimited (on-line)

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Subject: RE: BS: Jill Carroll Freed in Iraq
From: The Badger
Date: 30 Mar 06 - 07:14 PM

Why was she there?

Subject: RE: BS: Jill Carroll Freed in Iraq
From: bobad
Date: 30 Mar 06 - 12:36 PM

Always nice to get good news from a bad news situation.

Subject: RE: BS: Jill Carroll Freed in Iraq
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Mar 06 - 12:33 PM

Wonderful.

Subject: RE: BS: Jill Carroll Freed in Iraq
From: Big Mick
Date: 30 Mar 06 - 07:00 AM

It is, Art, and I am overjoyed. I never quite understood this one. Her family and colleagues must be overjoyed.

Mick

Subject: BS: Jill Carroll Freed in Iraq
From: artbrooks
Date: 30 Mar 06 - 06:52 AM

Just out...hope it's true.