phoenixgirl
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Has anyone else been following Carroll''s series on her captivity at the Christian Science Monitor? It''s been very interesting. One thing that stuck with me was how the FBI told her parents to come out with strong media statements condemning the kidnapping, but her parents chose to do a sympathetic appeal to the kidnappers as parents. Apparently one of the captors commented to Jill that her father was a good man, so it must have worked. Why would the FBI recommend that? It''s all well and good to get a few jabs in for your pride''s sake *IF* your daughter''s life isn''t in the hands of the people you are addressing. Why would the FBI recommend playing into the kidnapper''s presumed anti-Western sentiment?
I also thought it was neat that her family knew that she was fake crying in the soundless video that came out. I just thought it looked sad and awful, but apparently her family realized it was staged and took some solace from that.
Today''s piece talks about how the guards would play petty little games with her because they were frustrated to be stuck with her all day and took it out on her, and how even though she was a prisoner, it''s the human instinct to fight back.
Anyway, it''s really riveting and good journalism. There was all that talk about how she had made an anti-American video and must be suffering from Stockholm syndrome, which was incredibly presumptuous and premature considering that she was imprisoned and other kidnapped Westerners are being executed on video, even women and pacifist aid workers.
I also thought it was neat that her family knew that she was fake crying in the soundless video that came out. I just thought it looked sad and awful, but apparently her family realized it was staged and took some solace from that.
Today''s piece talks about how the guards would play petty little games with her because they were frustrated to be stuck with her all day and took it out on her, and how even though she was a prisoner, it''s the human instinct to fight back.
Anyway, it''s really riveting and good journalism. There was all that talk about how she had made an anti-American video and must be suffering from Stockholm syndrome, which was incredibly presumptuous and premature considering that she was imprisoned and other kidnapped Westerners are being executed on video, even women and pacifist aid workers.
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