Right-wing bloggers attack freed hostage for 'treason'

Right-wing bloggers attack freed hostage for 'treason' By Francis Harris in Washington(Filed: 03/04/2006)

The freed American hostage Jill Carroll arrived home after 83 days of captivity in Iraq yesterday - to a barrage of criticism from Right-wingers who accused her of showing too much sympathy for her kidnappers.
Jill Carroll, reunited with her family, denies that she refused to answer questions from the US military

But after an emotional reunion with her family in Boston, the 28-year-old freelance correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor spoke of her loathing for the gunmen who threatened her with death "many times" during her ordeal.

She described her captors as "criminals at best" and denied allegations that she had refused to answer questions from the American military.
She also disavowed a video-taped statement made during her captivity and another which was made shortly before American troops arrived to take custody of her.

"Things I was forced to say while captive are being taken by some as an accurate reflection of my personal views," she said. "They are not."
She said that her Iraqi translator, Alan Enwiya, had been murdered at the start of her captivity and that she remained "deeply angry with the people who did this".

Miss Carroll has been under sustained assault from some on the pro-war Right. Bloggers and hosts on the country's influential talk radio stations have attacked her for stating that she had not been threatened during her confinement.

Others attacked her for wearing Muslim dress and the news channel CNN carried an interview suggesting that she was suffering from "Stockholm Syndrome", in which victims begin to sympathise with their captors. One blogger called for Miss Carroll to be arrested for treason.

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OK I fess up I'm one of the attackers. This woman's story has more holes in it than cheesecloth does. In fact her entire story rings false in my ears. IMO, this woman was/is in collusion with her 'supposed' kidnappers and the entire incident was staged. Her translator was just 'collateral damage' in the staging of this incident.