Jill Carroll
Jill Carroll
Jill Carrollis an American former journalistwho was kidnapped and ultimately released in Iraq. Carroll was a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor at the time of her kidnapping. After finishing a fellowship at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy she returned to work for the Monitor. After her release, Carroll wrote a series of articles on her recollection of her experiences in Iraq...
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It stays on for about an hour and a half and then goes out for a few hours. Back in October, we would get three or four hours at a time.
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At any rate, fearing retribution from my captors, I did not speak freely. Out of fear, I said I wasn't threatened. In fact, I was threatened many times.
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All I ever wanted to be was a foreign correspondent. It seemed the right time to try to make it happen.
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It was like falling off a cliff for three months, waiting to hit the ground.