The Washington Post talked with Jill soon after her release, quoting her as saying that her orderal felt “like falling off a cliff for three months." They also ran a picture [from Getty Images] of Jill right after she was freed. She looks healthy and certainly happy to be free. Here are some excerpts from the Washington Post feature that ran today.
BAGHDAD, March 30 — Jill Carroll wondered from day to day whether she would grow old or die a hostage. "It was like falling off a cliff for three months, waiting to hit the ground," the 28-year-old American reporter said Thursday after being released by her kidnappers. A shuffle from car to street to the branch office of a Sunni Arab political party and then to its headquarters brought Carroll to freedom on a beautiful spring day in Baghdad.
I’m really ecstatic and grateful that our prayers have been answered. I can’t wait to see Jill, hug her and never let her go. Meanwhile, I’m off to Seattle in a few hours to attend a family wedding. I guess today I have two reasons to celebrate: A blessed matrimony, and a friend’s long-awaited freedom realized. Life can’t get any better. Thank you God.
Jill need to reassess her ideals and political associations. If she is so pro-Middle East, take away her American Citizenship and let her live there permanently. I am not sure she needs to be celebrated in any way if she is so anti-war. Does she think what was happening in Iraq prior to the war was Okay? Is she a damn idiot??! Jill, you are too dumb for words. Get a life!
http://bigpharaoh.blogspot.com/
Big Pharaoh quotes Sandmonkey:
“I will be trying really hard to keep my mouth shut until she leaves Iraq and heads back to the US. I am willing to say that she said what she said because she had a gun to her head, and had to say whatever was necessary to get out. I will give her a break to collect her thoughts, relax and figure her stuff out, and see what she has to say. But honestly, if she turns out being another Giuliana Sgrena or Susanne Osthoff, I swear by all the gods in heaven that I will not join a single campaign to free a single person, especially a journalist, kidnapped in Iraq ever again, especially ones who are sympathethic to the Jihadis.”
And in the comments to Big Pharaohs post somebody called Mike quotes LGF:
“She says the terrorists treated her well.
Her interpreter, murdered during the kidnapping, was not available for comment.”
Big Pharaoh in a later post then writes:
“Nevertheless, I still want to hear it from Carroll’s mouth. So I’m withholding my apology at the moment.”
You probably have heard about these insinuations already, but in case you haven’t, I thought you’d want to know.
Mike,
Let’s give Jill the benefit of the doubt until she gives her full account when she gets back. She did and said what she had to do to survive. We all would have similar under the circumstances.
When she gets back if she speaks the same tune which I doubt she will … then call her what you please.
Mabrook,
Mabrook and Mabareek on Jill’s release. That’s wonderful and amazing.
OOPS! Weather, not “whether.”
Thank God, and God bless you, Natasha, for keeping us informed.
Are you coming to Seattle Natasha, welcome; looks like a nice whether right now, but no guarantees !
I just read in today’s Yale Daily News over breakfast that Jill Carroll was released, and immediately thought of your blog to find out more.
I’m grateful to God for her safe return.
mabrouk habibty!!