Jill Carroll forced to make propaganda video as price of freedom

Dan Murphy
The Christian Science Monitor
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Cairo (Egypt):
The night before journalist Jill Carroll's release, her captors said they had one final demand as the price of her freedom:
She would have to make a video praising her captors and attacking the United States, according to Jim Carroll. In a long phone conversation with his daughter on Friday, Mr. Carroll says that Jill was "under her captor's control."
And before making one last video the day before her release, she was told that they had already killed another American hostage.That video appeared Thursday on a jihadist website that carries videos of beheadings and attacks on American forces.
In it, Carroll told her father she felt compelled to make statements strongly critical of President Bush and his policy in Iraq.Her remarks are now making the rounds of the Internet, attracting heavy criticism from conservative bloggers and commentators.In fact, Carroll did what many hostage experts and past captives would have urged her to do:
Give the men who held the power of life and death over her what they wanted.
Mar 31, 2006