Re: Carroll's Release
What former hostage Jill Carroll is saying now is what's finally making sense.
She had been set up to look like the phoenix version of Rachel Corrie, with far too much help from the media, nearly three years to the day later: looking on video a bit too reminiscent of Giuliana Sgrena, then the next time looking properly tearful, then she's found released on a street in Baghdad, healthy and safe, with nothing to say about her captors.
Should she have felt safe enough in the Sunni's headquarters to speak out against people whom she probably expected to kill her? Should she have felt safe while she was still anywhere in the region if she spoke out against them?
It's very likely that she's been made aware by her kidnappers of just how many organizations of the coalition and the new Iraqi government and army have been infiltrated by terrorists - virtually every one, I suspect. The walls have ears.
I don't think I would have had much to say either. Not until I'd set foot in a secure place far from the slums and dungeons of Iraq's "insurgents."
What she says as a free American is what should be weighed. Anyone who pays too much heed to anything released by Islamofascist guerrillas - or by a dazed former captive waiting anxiously to go home - is wasting their time.
She had been set up to look like the phoenix version of Rachel Corrie, with far too much help from the media, nearly three years to the day later: looking on video a bit too reminiscent of Giuliana Sgrena, then the next time looking properly tearful, then she's found released on a street in Baghdad, healthy and safe, with nothing to say about her captors.
Should she have felt safe enough in the Sunni's headquarters to speak out against people whom she probably expected to kill her? Should she have felt safe while she was still anywhere in the region if she spoke out against them?
It's very likely that she's been made aware by her kidnappers of just how many organizations of the coalition and the new Iraqi government and army have been infiltrated by terrorists - virtually every one, I suspect. The walls have ears.
I don't think I would have had much to say either. Not until I'd set foot in a secure place far from the slums and dungeons of Iraq's "insurgents."
What she says as a free American is what should be weighed. Anyone who pays too much heed to anything released by Islamofascist guerrillas - or by a dazed former captive waiting anxiously to go home - is wasting their time.
posted by Jane Bellwether @ 6:41 PM
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