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.
dear jareer
YOU get over it, my friend. there is no allah, no jehovah, no yawyeh, no God at all. WHY capitalize that word god? YES, THE UNIVERSE IS ALL RANDOM CHANCE, EVOLUTION, get over it already, if there was a god, jill would never have been kidnaped, osama would never have unleashed 911, the holocaust would never have happened…….when you silly geese say praise god, thank god, don’t you realize how backward and silly you are? there is never never was any kind of god. that is why we are in trouble in mid east and everywhere. all yu believe in ALLAH JEHOAVAh yawahe fighting all the time. in fact, there is just matter and time and space, and us, random chance earthlings…..did you ever go to school? stp being brainwashed. or is that impossible.
i am so glad jill is free and safe, yes, but if all this is to show that prayers were answere by some make believe god, omigod. silly.,
grow up. face reality
Whether you like it, or not, there is a mighty, awesome God my friend. Get over your ignorance and denial and see how this universe is miraculously designed and made. Look inside yourself and body and see how sophesticated the body is; it couldnt be just a coincidence or a chance that you came to exist.
Our God is an awesome God,
He reigns from heaven above
With wisdome, power and love,
Our God is an awesome God.
get over it everyone, and nastasha too . there is NO GOD. do you think your Christian God rules the world? No way. there is No god. that is why we are in Iraq…
Salam!
Glad to find u through sandmonkey!
Lets give her the time to relax, and think of the ordeal she went through; yes, we dont like what she said so far, and the piece of shi… she was wearing doesnt seam to mean any respect for her and her freedom. Being treated well doesnt make any sense while holding her against her free will. The only thing that matters now is her safety, thank God; all other politics and stuff to follow.
Good enough for me … please accept my apology for ever doubting you.
It is believed that Jill was taken away, yet again by unknown armed men.
Saw TV footage of her debussing from the C-117 cargo plane in Ramstein Airforce base, Germany. There was an officer waiting to escort away.
This is the assumed dialogue at the scene.
< ---Begin-->
UNIDENTIFIED MAN
“Pardon me Miss Carol,
I’m Mike Jackson from the Firm.
(Jill looks surprised and casually follows.)
We’re ordered to escort you in Germany. Please follow me to those vehicles (He points, Jill looks).
Several plaincloathed men seen around blue panel vans, in the background.
< ---EnD--->
Are the latest comments from Jill, a forced after-action report to/from the establishment?
Overall the situation for Jill appears to be:
“Out of the frying pan and into the fire?”.
🙂 🙂 🙂
I can’t even imagine what that must have been like for her. Her opinions about the Middle East are irrelevant right now, people–let’s celebrate a fellow American coming home safely.
Read this. End of discussion.
Question – do we even know if she’s been told about the death of her translator?