Jill Carroll – Future Battered Wife

UPDATED: See below*

Jill Carroll, doubtless delighted to be freed, made an interesting comment:

“I was treated well, but I don’t know why I was kidnapped,” Carroll said in a brief interview on Baghdad television.

If being treated well includes being kidnapped, seeing murder done in the course of that kidnapping, threats of beheading, guns pointed at you repeatedly, being held against your will, allowed to read a newspaper once and watch a TV once, and being made to beg for your life repeatedly before the camera, then I’d say Ms. Carroll is an excellent candidate to be a battered wife sometime in the future. It’s also rather amazing that she claims to not know why she was kidnapped. Her captors announced it repeatedly. Didn’t she believe them, and if not, why not?

Unless she’s got Stockholm Syndrome, then this woman is an idiot.

*Another alternative, h/t LGF:

Jill Carroll’s kidnappers reportedly warned her before her release that she might be killed if she cooperated with the Americans or went to the Green Zone… The [Christian Science] Monitor quoted her family as saying that her kidnappers had warned her against talking to the Americans or going to the Green Zone. They told her it was “infiltrated by the mujahedeen,” the newspaper said.

I guess we’ll see what she has to say when she returns to America.

** UPDATED AGAIN:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12120527/

Statements made ‘under duress’
In a video recorded before she was freed and posted by her captors on an Islamist Web site, Carroll spoke out against the U.S. military presence. On Saturday, she said the recording was made under duress.

“During my last night in captivity, my captors forced me to participate in a propaganda video. They told me I would be released if I cooperated. I was living in a threatening environment, under their control, and wanted to go home alive. So I agreed,” she said in a statement.

“Things that I was forced to say while captive are now being taken by some as an accurate reflection of my personal views. They are not. The people who kidnapped me and murdered Alan Enwiya are criminals, at best.”

She also condemned her captors, although she did not address the war in Iraq. “I will not engage in polemics. But let me be clear: I abhor all who kidnap and murder civilians, and my captors are clearly guilty of both crimes,” she said.

She’s not an idiot, suffering from Stockholm syndrome, or in all liklihood a future battered wife. She’s a strong woman who did what she had to do to be freed. And boy, do I wish I hadn’t been so sarcastic! She’s probably anti-war, but not pulling a CPT and I’m sorry I wrote about her so sarcastically.