Jill Carroll's Hostage Story on Christian Science Monitor

Posted on August 15, 2006

Jill Carroll is writing about her experience as a hostage in Baghdad for the first time in an eleven part series on the Christian Science Monitor located at csmonitor.com. Here are some of the highlights of the feature.

Moved more than a dozen times, Carroll had closer contact with Sunni insurgents - including those associated with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - than any American who has lived to tell the tale.

Under the constant threat of death, Carroll was required to interview her captors. She learned she had not been their only hostage. Her captors instructed her about the mujahideen worldview and the shadowy activities of the Iraqi insurgency.

Carroll describes the motives of her captors, whose primary enemy, the US, was replaced by an even greater hatred for Shiites. The US military in Iraq announced on Aug. 9 that four of the men believed to have been involved in Carroll's kidnapping had been arrested.

The Monitor also has the Jill Carroll Update blog which was started by Monitor staff after Carroll's capture. The Iraq War has led to many terrible incidents and situations for reporters. The 100th reporter was killed in the Iraq War earlier this month.

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