Update: This video (we believe) was made AFTER she is released and is at the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters were she was dropped off by her comrades abductors.

Developing story…

Carroll has the Iraqi Islamic Party call the Washington Post first before her family—does not ask about her interpreter’s fate and says her suffering was nothing compared to theirs (Iraqi Islamic Party’s).

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Video of Jihadi Jill speaking against the war

Freed US hostage Jill Carroll praised Iraq’s insurgents and predicted their victory in an interview conducted by her captors before they released her today, according to a video posted on the internet.

The footage, which could not be independently verified, appeared to have been filmed shortly before the freelance journalist was released today nearly three months after being kidnapped in Baghdad.

"Did you think the American army or the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) would save you at any time?" a muffled male voice asked Ms Carroll in accented English.

"Sometimes I thought maybe that they might come, they might find me, they might find a way to know where I am and come get me," she answered, dressed in the same baggy dress and headscarf she appeared in after her release.

Ms Carroll, 28, who worked mainly for the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor, was dropped at the door of the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters in Baghdad’s western Amiriyah district today after being abducted on January 7.

Her Iraqi translator was shot dead.

"Why did not they save you?" asked the man.

"I think the mujahideen (Islamic holy warriors) are very smart and even with all the technology and all the people that the American army has here, they still are better at knowing how to live and work here, more clever," she said.

"Does this mean something to you?" asked the man.

"It makes very clear that the mujahideen are the ones that will win in the end," said Ms Carroll.

She was kidnapped by a group calling itself the Brigades of Vengeance, which had set numerous deadlines threatening to kill her if US-led forces failed to release all female detainees in Iraq.

The eight and a half minute tape, digitally stamped with the groups’s name, starts with the man addressing the journalist as "dear Carroll" and asking her to describe how she had been treated by her captors.

"They treated me very well, like a guest given good food, kept safe, treated very, very well," she said.

"What will you tell the American people about the mujahideen when you go back to America?" asked the man.

"There are a lot of lies that come out of the American government calling the mujahideen terrorists, I think it is important that the American people hear from me that the mujahideen are only trying to defend their country," she said.

The man then asked Ms Carroll if she had a message for US President George W. Bush.

She smiles before saying: "He needs to stop this war. He knows this war is wrong … He needs to finally admit that to the American people and make the troops go home.

"He does not care about his own people and the people here in Iraq. He needs to wake up and the people in America need to wake up."

Ms Carroll then said she felt guilty being set free while many women remained imprisoned at Baghdad’s US-run Abu Ghraib prison.

"I feel guilty … It shows the difference between the mujahideen and the Americans, it shows the mujahedeen are good people fighting an honourable fight while the Americans are here as an occupying force treating the people in a very bad way," she said.

At the end of the tape, her interrogator read out a statement in Arabic.

"The mujahideen in the land of the two rivers announce the liberation of the journalist Jill Carroll … after the US forces and the CIA failed to find her making their ineptitude obvious to the whole world," he said.

"We liberate this journalist today after the American government met some of our demands by releasing some of our women prisoners."

International media is starting to post on this story

World News Australia

Jill Carroll interviewée par ses ravisseurs avant sa libération

Jihadi Jill has time to hang out with Sunni leader and receive gift after leaving her comrades being freed by her abductors.

Letter from the Mujahideen to the American people The 17th of March 2005–A bit dated but pertains to this story

Fox News has a few paragraphs on this story

Think Jihadi Jill was under duress when she said all of the above? Think again!

January 15, 2006 The Jordan Times writes this about Carroll:

The kidnappers who abducted her could not have chosen a more wrong target. True, Jill is a US citizen. But she is also more critical of US policies towards the Middle East than many Arabs. Though as a reporter she always complies with the strictest requirements of objectivity and impartiality, Jill has been from day one opposed to the war, to the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

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JACKIE SPINNER, "WASHINGTON POST": Well, the striking thing always for me about Jill is that she loved Iraq. She felt that it was her home. When she wasn’t there, she was homesick for the country.

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Carroll had been lauded by many Iraqis for her documented work highlighting the plight of detainees — mostly Sunnis — in Badr-run detention centres. She had won accolades from many senior Sunni leaders:

"This journalist, Jill Carroll … is one of the great journalists who are against the occupation. She is considered one of the best journalists who stood against the American occupation of Iraq and she focused in her articles on … telling the world about the Iraqi people’s suffering," the AMS said in a statement. Al-Ahram Weekly

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Keep in mind who Jihadi Jill’s friends are:

Natasha Tynes—former editor at al-Jazeera

Marla Ruzicka— Friend and co-worker of Medea Benjamin (Ruzicka was killed in Iraq)

Riverbend—Rabid anti-American military, Iraqi blogger

 As we’ve posted in the past, we don’t believe Jihadi Jill was in Iraq the whole duration of her visit with her comrades abductors. Jihadi Jill is smart to stay away from the U.S. military–they would most certainly blow her bullshit out of the water when de-briefing her.

 

Jihadi Jill with her comrades abductors.

"They never said they would hit me. They never threatened me in any way," she told an interviewer.

CNN

After her release:

Jihadi Jill wants the world to know she was “not harmed” by her comrades abductors and that she had really nice furniture where she was visiting held: but makes no mention of her interpreter who was killed.

I don’t buy into this notion that Jihadi Jill is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome or under duress and here’s why: All of her pre-“abduction” ranting was adamantly against the “war/occupation” by American forces. In the last year or so she was focused on and perpetuated the lie that American forces were raping/torturing/killing Iraqi female prisoners.  Her close circles of friends (who continue to perpetuate the lie of rape/torture/killing of Iraqi female prisoners by American forces) are involved with anti-American military organizations. And she as well as they have been pressing for the release of not only Iraqi female prisoners but of all prisoners held by American forces.

Jihadi Jill would be wise to keep her head down at the moment and distance herself from her pal Medea Benjamin et al. Doing otherwise will most certainly raise suspicion by those not yet convinced that she is indeed—treasonous after all.

Note: Listen carefully as she says: “I’m Free” when speaking about prisoners held by American forces.`

 

What Jihadi Jill has managed to pull off is an anti-American propaganda video to be aired world-wide under the guise of being abducted, to which she can easily say: “I was made to say those things”. Never mind that she has been saying these exact same things pre-abduction.