Muslim Extremists threaten to kill female American journalist

AMS · Jan 22, 2006

RocksMillenium said:

For the people who are ripping a poster for suggesting rape, you have to deal with the fact that rape is ALWAYS a possibility. If someone breaks into a woman's house and takes her hostage, don't you think that rape is an issue? What makes this situation any different?
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because that poster suggested that you need to worry about her due to previous rape issues in that society or something...
whereas that is totally unheard of in any of these wars...

this was the exact quote

Isn't that part of the world famous for rapes, especially of those in captive?
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If anything, the US Military is famous for acts of sexual harrasment against those in captivity.

Deckard · Jan 22, 2006

wnes said:

Haven't watched TV news for days, how is the media coverage on Jill Carroll's abduction in Iraq? Too bad she isn't a blonde or your typical girl-next-door type. Worse yet, she doesn't work for Wall Street Journal or MSM. Christian Sciece Monitor, huh?
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I don't think it's gotten the publicity that abductions of this kind have gotten in the past. Really not sure why. Perhaps I missed a lot of it, or perhaps some people/media have become "numb" to these situations, which have happened with depressing regularity the last few years. I would hope not.

Still no word... hope she gets released.

Keep D&D Civil.

rimrocker · Mar 1, 2006

The latest...

Minister: Islamic Army in Iraq is holding journalist
Insurgent group has previously freed two French hostages
ROBERT H. REID
Associated Press
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/13984714.htm

BAGHDAD - American reporter Jill Carroll is being held by the Islamic Army in Iraq, the insurgent group that freed two French journalists in 2004 after four months in captivity, Iraq's Interior Minister said Tuesday.

Interior Minister Bayan Jabr, who is in charge of Iraq's police, also said he believed the 28-year-old freelance reporter for The Christian Science Monitor is still alive, although the deadline set by her captors for the U.S. to meet their demands expired Sunday.

Three videotapes provided by the kidnappers to Arab satellite television stations identified the group holding her as the previously unknown "Revenge Brigades." She was seized Jan. 7 in Baghdad and her translator was killed.

However, Jabr told Iraqi television that he believes Carroll is being held by the Islamic Army in Iraq, one of the country's principal insurgent groups.

Jabr said the same group was responsible for kidnapping his sister, who was seized about four days before Carroll and freed about two weeks later.

"The kidnapping of the American journalist, Jill Carroll, occurred about the same time as the abduction of my sister," he said. "I was equally keen to get both of them released. I recognized that the Islamic army was responsible for both plots."

Jabr said he sent a message to his sister's kidnappers and asked for help in winning Carroll's freedom. He said he also provided information on the case to the FBI.

The Islamic Army in Iraq has been involved in kidnappings before, including the Aug. 20, 2004, abduction of French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot. They were freed the following December.

The group killed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni, who also was abducted in 2004, and claimed it killed American contractor Ronald Schulz last December.

Jabr is among the most controversial figures in Iraq because of allegations his ministry sanctions "death squads" that have kidnapped and assassinated Sunni civilians.
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