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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:23 pm Post subject: New Video on Jill Carroll Released... |
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(CNN) -- In new footage aired Monday on an Arabic-language news network, an American journalist kidnapped in Iraq urged Americans to plead for the release of female Iraqi prisoners in order to secure her release, the network said.
Appearing distraught, Jill Carroll wore a head scarf and spoke English in the video, which was dated January 28, the Qatar-based satellite network Al-Jazeera reported. The network broadcast the images but did not air the sound.
It said that Carroll urged her family, colleagues and Americans around the world to appeal to U.S. officials and the Iraqi Interior Ministry on her behalf.
Last Thursday, the U.S. military in Iraq released five female detainees after determining they were not security threats. Four female prisoners reportedly remain in U.S. custody.
The tape was dated January 28 and bore the logo of the Brigades of Vengeance, the group that claimed responsibility for Carroll's January 7 abduction. CNN has no way to confirm when or where the video was shot.
Carroll, a freelance writer, was working for the Christian Science Monitor when she was taken hostage. The non-religious newspaper -- based in Boston, Massachusetts -- said it would assess the video's authenticity before issuing a statement.
Her captors had threatened to kill her unless all female prisoners were freed, but no word on her fate had emerged since the group issued a 72-hour deadline in a previous video that aired January 17.
The five women released last week were among 424 detainees released "as a result of detailed screening," said Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, a U.S. military spokesman.
"They were determined not to be a problem in Iraq," Lynch said.
The release of the female detainees was "part of our normal process, and not as a result of demands by terrorists and criminals," Lynch reiterated. "We don't negotiate with terrorists and criminals."
Bosho Ibrahim Ali, a deputy justice minister, told CNN the remaining four female prisoners might be released with another group at another time.
Ali said he had started his effort to free the female detainees for humanitarian reasons before Carroll's abduction.
The Christian Science Monitor has posted on its Web site appeals for Carroll's release from Muslims and non-Muslims. They include an appeal from a top official of Hamas, the Islamic militant group considered a terrorist organization by Israel and the United States.
Both of Carroll's parents have appealed for her release in CNN interviews. Her father, Jim Carroll, canceled planned appearances on Arab television networks after Monday's video aired and did not plan any further statements.
ABC crew improving
Reporting from the Iraqi war zone is a dangerous proposition.
ABC's top news official said Monday that anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman "have shown some signs of improvement" after being seriously injured by a roadside bomb and may be transferred to the United States as soon as Tuesday.
Woodruff, the 44-year-old co-anchor of "World News Tonight," and Doug Vogt, 46, arrived in Germany on Monday morning to receive treatment for wounds they suffered Sunday near Taji, Iraq, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Baghdad.
ABC News President David Westin said families of the two had met with doctors, who "will continue to monitor their condition closely," according to a news release. (Full story)
According to Reporters without Borders, 79 media workers have been killed in Iraq since the United States invaded in March 2003.
The organization said 35 news media workers have been abducted since the start of the war, including Carroll. Five of the kidnap victims were killed.
CNN's Octavia Nasr contributed to this report. |
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.main/index.html |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:34 am Post subject: |
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Question: WHO stands to benefit if she's murdered?
The "insurgency"? OR those who seek to "weaken" the insurgency?
Apparently there have been widespread calls among Muslims throughout IRAQ & the middle east in general for her release.
If she is killed there will likely be a significant outcry, both in the Middle East & the West.
IN committing such an act the "insurgency" certainly won't be winning any more friends.
Think about it 
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:01 am Post subject: |
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| igotthisguitar wrote: |
Question: WHO stands to benefit if she's murdered?
The "insurgency"? OR those who seek to "weaken" the insurgency?
Think about it |
Jeff Rense.  |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:17 am Post subject: |
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| Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee wrote: |
| igotthisguitar wrote: |
Question: WHO stands to benefit if she's murdered?
The "insurgency"? OR those who seek to "weaken" the insurgency?
Think about it |
Jeff Rense. |
An innocent ( and Iraqi sympathizer ) woman's life is at stake & you're making light of how she's being used as a pawn in order to promote a dark political agenda.
Real class man. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:30 am Post subject: |
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An innocent ( and Iraqi sympathizer ) woman's life is at stake & you are using her in order to promote a evil political agenda.
Real class man. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:02 am Post subject: |
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| Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee wrote: |
An innocent ( and Iraqi sympathizer ) woman's life is at stake & you are using her in order to promote a evil political agenda.
Real class man. |
Ummmmm ... why are you so childishly parroting what i wrote?
Rather than plaguarize you know you could at least TRY & be original.
Like i said, you're mocking this woman & her frightful ordeal 
While i know you like it, i'll say it again all the same: NO CLASS. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:11 am Post subject: |
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| igotthisguitar wrote: |
| Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee wrote: |
An innocent ( and Iraqi sympathizer ) woman's life is at stake & you are using her in order to promote a evil political agenda.
Real class man. |
Ummmmm ... why are you so childishly parroting what i wrote?
Rather than plaguarize you know you could at least TRY & be original.
Like i said, you're mocking this woman & her frightful ordeal
While i know you like it, i'll say it again all the same: NO CLASS. |
No in fact that is what you were doing you neo nazi filth.
What happened here was Igothisguitar trying to use this sad story to spin another conspiracy theory. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:23 am Post subject: |
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Igothisguitar is mocking this woman & her frightful ordeal -for real as he trys to start up another conspiracy theory.
What is on the Jeff Rense site and others like his is nothing but intentional disinformation for a wicked social and political purpose. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:36 am Post subject: |
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No big surprise- we know how inhuman igotthisguitar can be in order to advance some pet conspiracy theory.
It's a shame the moderators had to pull the most loathsome of igotthisguitatar's posts- these things should be left here so we can refer people back to them when some newbie says that igotthisguitar is simply an amusing and entertaining nut and should be left alone.
igothisguitar, your insinuation that there is some covert American kidnap squad active in Iraq and kidnapping/killing westerners in order to manipulate public sentiment is both juvenile and extremely offensive. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:56 am Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
| It's a shame the moderators had to pull the most loathsome of igotthisguitatar's posts |
Oh yah, i'm sure it just breaks your heart; self-righteous spook censors deleting any honest & open discussion of any real hard-hitting &, God forbid, "controversial" issues
N.B. - Most loathsome ( translation: whatever Bully ambush lurkers like you & Joo take exception to and deem conceptually "incorrect" )
| Bulsajo wrote: |
| ... your insinuation that there is some covert American kidnap squad active in Iraq and kidnapping/killing westerners in order to manipulate public sentiment is both juvenile and extremely offensive. |
Actually, name calling & inability to discuss the issues is most juvenile.
Believe it or not Bully, the TRUTH often is not always as pretty, cute & fuzzy, wrapped in as many ribbons & bows & sweet scented perfumes as you'd like it.
More often than not ( and especially when a country is under occupation from a hostile foreign power ) deception & subvertfuge is indeed the case.
AS IF the insugency stands to win over public opinion by killing a hostage widely admired & respected by the Iraqis.
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When the first American was decapitated, I read several hostile Chilean op-eds. One of them suggested that CIA had done the whole thing just to generate support for the Iraqi War. (Another one suggested that Americans were only reaping that which they had sown.)
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Well they weren't the only ones who noticed a few things peculiar about that incident. After the role the CIA, Kissinger & Co. played in toppling & assassinating the DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED leader Allende, giving rise to Pinochet's bloody REIGN OF "TERROR", it's easy enough to understand why they might be a little suspicious.
The story of Nick Berg is indeed quite something ( for anyone interested in looking into it )
As i'm sure you're well aware, WAR is premised on deception ( on ALL fronts ).
You honestly think people are that gullible? 
EVERYBODY KNOWS
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes ... Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose ... Everybody knows
And everybody knows that it's now or never
Everybody knows that it's me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever
Ah when you've done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows
And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it's moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose ...
what everybody knows |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| I almost wished she was Italian or French so that her government would pay for her release. Then I realized that paying for the release of prisoners turns kidnapping into a business, funds the enemy, and misuses resources. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Bummer for IGTG- another crazy theory shot all to hell by reality. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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NPR.org, March 30, 2006 � BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- American reporter Jill Carroll was set free Thursday, nearly three months after she was kidnapped in a bloody ambush that killed her translator. She said she had been treated well.
Carroll, 28, was dropped off near the Iraqi Islamic Party offices. She walked inside, and people there called American officials, Iraqi police said.
"I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped," Carroll said in a brief interview on Baghdad television.
Carroll was kidnapped Jan. 7 in Baghdad's western Adil neighborhood while going to interview Sunni Arab politician Adnan al-Dulaimi. Her translator was killed in the attack about 300 yards from al-Dulaimi's office.
The previously unknown Revenge Brigades claimed responsibility. Even though the group threatened twice in videotapes to kill Carroll, she said, "They never hit me. They never even threatened to hit me."
The Italian news agency ANSA reported that Carroll underwent a medical checkup at the American hospital in the Green Zone.
During the TV interview, Carroll wore a light green Islamic headscarf and a gray Arabic robe.
"I'm just happy to be free. I want to be with my family," she was heard to say under the Arabic voiceover.
Carroll said she was kept in a furnished room with a window and a shower, but she did not know where she was.
"I felt I was not free. It was difficult because I didn't know what would happen to me," she said.
She said she was allowed to watch TV once and read a newspaper once.
Asked about the circumstances of her release, she said, "They just came to me and said we're going. They didn't tell me what was going on."
Police Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammedawi said Carroll was released near an office of the Iraqi Islamic Party, the main Sunni political organization, in western Baghdad.
"She is healthy and we handed her over to the Americans," party member Nasir al-Ani told The Associated Press.
In Berlin, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she was "pleased" by the news of Carroll's release.
"This is something that people have across the world worked for and prayed for and I think we are all very pleased and happy to hear of her release," Rice said.
Carroll's family said they were elated at news of her release. Her father, Jim, said at his house in Chapel Hill, N.C., that he was waiting to learn more about his daughter before making travel plans to reunite with her.
"Obviously, we are thrilled and relieved that she has been released," he said on the porch of his home. "We want to thank all that have supported and prayed for her. We want to especially thank The Christian Science Monitor, who did so much work to keep her image alive in Iraq."
During Carroll's months in captivity, she had appeared twice in videos broadcast on Arab television, pleading for her life.
Her captors had demanded the release of all women detainees in Iraq by Feb. 26 and said Carroll would be killed if that did not happen. The date came and went with no word about her fate.
On Feb. 28, Iraq's Interior Minister Bayan Jabr said Carroll was being held by the Islamic Army in Iraq, the insurgent group that freed two French journalists in 2004 after four months in captivity.
She was last seen in a videotape broadcast Feb. 9 by the private Kuwaiti television station Al-Rai. Her twin sister, Katie, issued a plea for her release on Al-Arabiya television late Wednesday.
News of her release also left friends overjoyed.
"I don't know whether to cry or skip down my street," Jackie Spinner, a friend who is a reporter for The Washington Post, told ABC's Good Morning America.
Carroll went to the Middle East in 2002 after being laid off from a newspaper job. She had long dreamed of covering a war.
In American Journalism Review last year, Carroll wrote that she moved to Jordan in late 2002, six months before the war started, "to learn as much about the region as possible before the fighting began."
"There was bound to be plenty of parachute journalism once the war started, and I didn't want to be a part of that," she wrote.
Carroll has had work from Iraq published in the Monitor, AJR, U.S. News & World Report, ANSA and other publications. She has also been interviewed on National Public Radio.
ANSA's editor-in-chief, Pierluigi Magnaschi, wrote Carroll an e-mail, telling her: "Welcome back, Jill. We worried about you and rooted for you for a long time, with all our strength."
Magnaschi invited her to Rome saying, "You deserve this stupendous Rome that is blossoming into spring. We await you."
On Wednesday, Katie Carroll said her sister is a "wonderful person" who is an "innocent woman."
"I've been living a nightmare, worrying if she is hurt or ill," she in a statement read on the Al-Arabiya network.
Carroll is the fourth Western hostage to be freed in eight days. On March 23, U.S. and British soldiers, acting on intelligence gained from a detainee, freed Briton Norman Kember, 74, and Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, from a house west of Baghdad.
The three belonged to the Christian Peacemakers Teams group and had been kidnapped with an American colleague, Tom Fox, 54, on Nov. 26. Fox was killed and his body was dumped in western Baghdad on March 9. |
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5311197
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