1 It's good to see Jil has been able to articulate the trauma she endured. I feel deeply for her parents. The stress must have been horrible.
 
Somehow I just cannot see the FBI suggesting to Jill's father to do the Mel Gibson scene from his kidnapping movie. But then again considering some of the buffoonery we have read about, and of course the whole WAco and Ruby Ridge fiascos, let us not for get Elian Gonzales,  oh and then there is the whole "wall" thing that led to 911.
 
If they really did suggest the raging Dad thing, I think we need to re-evaluate who is running things.
 
I am not hostage negotiator so I will back away from that a bit. Couple that with the fact I am a nobody when it comes to dealing with Iraqi's and middle eastern nut jobs, I will sit back and listen to what others have to offer.
 
I still think the FBI is adrift when it comes to leadership and direction. They never recovered after J Edgar Hoover died.

2 Debbie got some cheap airplay from her Jill Carroll backstab.

Debbie looks like she's trying to do a reprise of J Edgar Hoover in a dress.

3 I would hold my nose and kiss some murdering bastard’s ass to save my daughter.
Jim is just another victim of the ROP. A dad has to do what his daughter got him into.

I wonder if she feels remorse for the driver and her own family. Put them all through hell.

4

Brad try following the link and reading the last paragraph on page 4.

5 I think that improbulus maximus is wrong.

There is NOTHING in Jill's reporting or background that ever indicated she was a terrorist sympathizer or in Iraq for any agenda besides trying to bring objective information to Americans about the progress or lack of in Iraq. I would ask that you do your homework instead of assuming that anyone working in Iraq is some kind of traitor. Your ignorance is exactly why we need more good reporters like Jill.

Read up....

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0126/p09s02-coop.html
"I was a public affairs officer with the Marines in Iraq last year and had the privilege of working with Jill on several occasions. Her professionalism and objectivity were unparalleled within the media community. I saw her in Husaybah, on the Syrian border, in early December shortly before I returned to the States. Aside from being very personable and down-to-earth, what really struck me was Jill's bravery. She seemed to fit right in with the Marines and Iraqi security forces. It is this attribute, I believe, that will see her through her current ordeal. My family and I will continue to keep Jill in our prayers. I am hopeful for her eventual release."
Patrick Kerr
New Orleans

and this...

http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=3829
"...There are more lucrative ways to work and faster ways to advance a career. But just as athletes do it for love of the game, freelancers in Iraq seem to do it for love of the story...The sense that I could do more good in the Middle East than in the U.S. drove me to move to Jordan six months before the war to learn as much about the region as possible before the fighting began. All I ever wanted to be was a foreign correspondent, so when I was laid off from my reporting assistant job at the Wall Street Journal in August 2002, it seemed the right time to try to make it happen. There was bound to be plenty of parachute journalism once the war started, and I didn't want to be a part of that..." - Jill Carroll

and this...

Q&A with Jill Carroll (watch it in the link):

http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/carroll/QA/index.html

Q. "When released from Iraq, you had stated that you had been well-treated by your captors. After your trip to Germany and return to the US you then indicated that you were not treated well. For a seasoned correspondent, which answer was truthful?"
– Cecil E. Perfoy, Maui, Hawaii

A. Jill Carroll: "Well, obviously, the latter. I wasn't well treated. But keep in mind, I wasn't doing this as a reporter. I was a hostage which is different. I wasn't working, I had been attacked, essentially. So, the reason why I said in the beginning that I was well treated, those words I said, in that video that came out that said I was in one room and went to a bathroom once, and that was all; those were the exact words I was told to say by the insurgents who captured me. They said if I ever said anything more, or anything different from that, essentially they would come kill me, essentially. So, I was never to tell anyone anything else aside from those exact words that I said. So, when I got out, I was still absolutely terrified.

People seem to think that when you're free suddenly you're just back to who you were and that you're feeling safe and everything's great again. Not at all. This kind of thing just shakes your sense of security to the absolute core for a long, long time. And so, I had just gotten out. I wasn't about to say anything wrong. I wasn't about to violate what they wanted me to say. They want me to tell the world that I was well-treated, and that's what it took for me to get home and get away and never have this happen again, then so be it. I didn't care. After a few days, in your mind, you start to get a little better sense of yourself, and also being away and out of Iraq, and being in Germany and being back in the US you begin to feel sort of ... I began to feel a little safer about saying things, and not sticking to the script that I had been given by the captors to say. But, when I said that, the captors had told me maybe two hours before that they were going to kill me. So, it's a little hard to come from that, and two hours, then switch, and be like, oh yeah, well, now I'm back. Let me be myself again and tell you the truth about how awful it was. I was afraid they would come get me again. I did whatever I had to do to keep that from happening."

6 improbulus maximus is confused.

Unless Halliburton and the U.S. Marines working in Iraq are terrorist supports, I'd say he's factually wrong about reporters.