The abduction of Jill Carroll in Baghdad in January, along with the murder of her interpreter, Alan Enwiya, was an important event. Her ordeal demonstrated that the Islamic world has friends in the West—people like Jill Carroll, people who went out to try and understand who they are, in the wake of 9/11. Appeals from Read More
“There’s a great deal of interest in her story, from both media and literary agents,” Jay Jostyn, communications manager of The Christian Science Monitor, said on April 17. It had been just over two weeks since Monitor reporter Jill Carroll was released after 82 days of captivity in Iraq, and she was home recovering from Read More
I was checking out the Christian Science Monitor’s remarkable series of intimate photographs of Jill Carroll’s reunion with her parents, hugging her father, falling over in her mother’s lap, when I felt the tears falling on my keyboard. http://www.csmonitor.com/slideshows/2006/homecoming2/index.html
Why so stirring? Well, you wouldn’t know it from the mainstream media, but Jill Read More
Amid all the joy over Jill Carroll’s release, it’s pretty inspiring that her father immediately called attention to the other kidnap victims still unaccounted for and that the Christian Science Monitor has set up a fund for the family of Carroll’s murdered translator, Alan Enwiya. http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0331/p10s04-woiq.html
The freeing of Jill Carroll (a joyful moment, need I add) is a reminder that there is no democracy in Iraq. Democracy depends on free speech and a vigorous press—what kind of democracy is it where reporters are afraid to take a step outside their rooms? Not much of a democracy at all. What does Read More
