Jill Carroll video was filmed under duress

[JudyLynne]

Reporter said positive things about militant captors to win her freedom


MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 7:24 p.m. ET March 31, 2006

Video of kidnapped journalist Jill Carroll the night before her release is now being characterized by her employer The Christian Science Monitor as propaganda she was forced to take part in as the price for her freedom.
In the video, which first appeared Thursday on a jihadist Web site, Carroll praises her captors for treating her well and attacks U.S. policies in Iraq. On Friday, The Christian Science Monitor, quoting Carroll's father, Jim Carroll, reported that the video was made while she was still "under her captors' control."
Jill Carroll, a 28-year-old freelancer for the Monitor, was a hostage for 82 days before her release on Thursday. She is reportedly in seclusion in Baghdad now, and expected to travel back to the United States in a few days.
Before her release, the Monitor reported, Carroll's captors promised her freedom in exchange for cooperating in the making of the video, but she told her father she didn't believe them, because she had been promised freedom several times before.

[conlor]

I've been afraid it wasn't true. I hope it is for her sake.

Though I like hearing what's going on over there, reporters are getting in the way and causing more troubles.