Although very glad Jill Carroll was released from her captives in Iraq on Thursday, I was beginning to get a bit creeped out at all the news footage of her talking to TV and still wearing the Muslim headscarf. Thankfully, she has now been photographed leaving a plane in Germany wearing military fatiques. Some reports say she made a propaganda video for her captives as a condition of her release.
This is certainly better
Photo by Michael Probst of AP
Than this
TV grab photo by Baghdad Television handout Reuters
According to a story in the Christian Science Monitor:
"Carroll did what many hostage experts and past captives would have urged her to do: Give the men who held the power of life and death over her what they wanted."
I doubt anyone is blaming her for anything, merely trying to understand what happened.
There are still two Iraqi journalists held hostage somewhere.
You never know what these people told her to do, or else something would happen to someone they still held.
Posted by: Bill Baar | April 01, 2006 at 07:01 PM