March 31, 2006
WHITHER ALAN JOHN GHAZI?
Everyone is peachy about the release of freelance reporter Jill Carroll from terrorist hands in Iraq. Ain't it glorious. And Jill herself, ex-Ann Arbor, ex-UMass, daddy lives in Chapel Hill (where is the Berkeley connection, bitch? Git with it!) is positively pissing herself over the wonderful treatment her kidnappers gave her:
Carroll entered the Iraqi Islamic Party offices in western Baghdad around midday Thursday and handed office personnel a letter, thought to be from her kidnappers, asking for help, a party official said.Shortly afterward, Carroll told Baghdad Television -- which the Sunni party owns -- that she was "treated very well" while being held captive.
"They never said they would hit me. They never threatened me in any way," she told an interviewer.
Wearing glasses and a hijab scarf, she said, "They allowed me once to see TV. They also allowed me once to read the paper, but it wasn't enough to know what's going on in the outside world."
There's more, but I won't post it. You've read it.
Let me ask you something, though: I may have missed it, but in her Stockholm Syndrome Statement did this cunt ever show an ounce of remorse for Alan John Ghazi, her translator, the man who was murdered for the simple fact that he was in her employ at the time of her abduction? I didn't read it anywhere. Perhaps she did, but it wasn't reported.
Yes, when she was taken hostage Ghazi was murdered. Point scored. And all this twit twat can gush about is how many hot showers she got to take, and how good the food was?
What a fucking hoor. What a useful idiot...
Posted by Velociman at March 31, 2006 12:13 AM
Oh course she didn't mention the death of her translator. Why should she? It certainly won't help their cause any; you know, to make us think that the religion of peace is so wonderful and sooooooo misunderstood. Can't have inconvenient dead bodies cluttering up the place, now can we?
Posted by: Candy at March 31, 2006 12:43 AMWTF is going on with these people who get kidnapped by the Iraqi terrorists?
Are the captors using the same sort of brainwashing techniques that the commies used in Korea to convert soldiers to communism?
All these nutters are getting freed and then gushing how good their jailers were to them, in that they didn't cut their heads off.
I am starting to smell a large rat with some of these "kidnappings". They have the smell of Baghdad Bob about them.
Posted by: Pedro the Ignorant at March 31, 2006 1:17 AMWe haven't heard the whole story. I am withholding judgement for now, because there is a big honking chunk of material missing from this.
You may be absolutely right in your assessment, but I am not ready to go there yet.
Posted by: Jack at March 31, 2006 10:13 AMWhy is it that the wrong people always get their heads cut off?
Posted by: lambo at March 31, 2006 10:36 AMI'm wondering why she's walking around wearing a hijab. Has she converted to the Religion of the Great Unwashed?
Posted by: Skwerly at March 31, 2006 10:59 AMUseful?
Posted by: og at March 31, 2006 12:47 PMYou nailed it with the Stockholm syndrome.
Posted by: Cythen at March 31, 2006 12:50 PMI was rawther hoping for a beheading video all along. After all, she's not using it. As usual, I was disappointed.
She could have shared a bench in Hades with Rachel Corrie.
Posted by: Bane at March 31, 2006 3:21 PMYou should probably do a re-take here. She has announced that she was being threatened throughout much of those remarks. Other than a few hours in a trailer full of MDA outside of Hull, Georgia in 1981, I've never really had to deal with being a hostage. I imagine it's in some ways liberating to know that you might end up with your head being sawed off on video for the world.
Posted by: rankin' rob at April 1, 2006 5:02 PM