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March 30, 2006
Jill Carroll Freed
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- American hostage Jill Carroll, the freelance journalist released on Thursday in Iraq after nearly three months in captivity, said she was "treated very well" while she was held."They never said they would hit me. They never threatened me in any way," she said in a TV interview after her release.
The interview was broadcast by Baghdad Television, a station owned by the Iraqi Islamic Party. It was conducted inside the headquarters of the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni group.
Wearing glasses and a hijab scarf, she said, "They allowed me once to see TV. They also allowed me once to read the paper but it wasn't enough to know what's going on in the outside world."
Throughout her ordeal, she said, "I was allowed to move in a small space."
Carroll, 28, also said that she didn't know exactly where she was held, because the room she was in had a frosted window.
As for her release, the journalist said she doesn't "know what really happened. They just came to me this this morning and told me they will release me."
Her father, Jim Carroll. first saw images of his daughter in the Baghdad Television video aired on CNN and said he is "pleased and relieved."
I'm so happy she has been released and is ok! It's nice to see a happy ending to one of these stories!
Found via CNN News.
Posted by Daffodil at March 30, 2006 8:27 AM
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I called my mom this morning, who lives in Evanston,IL (where Jill's mom lives) and told her that reports said that the press was camped outside of Jill's mom's apartment building. I don't know where her mom lives but I told my mom to drive around on her way to class to see if she saw anything ...
Posted by: Qusan at March 30, 2006 12:13 PM
I think she's headed back to Chicago if I understood what she said earlier. I know if it was me I'd want to get the heck out of Iraq!!
Posted by: Dianne at March 30, 2006 8:06 PM