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Show vwwwwww ww www yytrwyrt y www9 w w t'ytyt fy we vf yyi ' WWWVW ' fnday, August fft 2006 HERALD DAILY AS f ytyyf f if e1 www HOSTAGE: THE JILL CARROLL STORY Carroll nets beneath. Someone had sewed a skirt for Continued from Al the count ert op out of gaudy fabric, but one part had torn away. Next to the refrigerator was a giant freezer, covered with stickers of Maggi-bransoups. family loved and missed her. And the message should come from Jill's mother, Mary Beth. Three children played around our feet all progeny of the would-b- e bomber. I was still unused to captivity, still learning the boundaries, both physical and mental, that my kidnappers had imposed. I didn't want to offend. But I was shocked at the talk of a mother's suicide; shocked that Um Ali would blush at her husband's praise of this plan. "Oh, I didn't know women could be car bombers," was all I could muster. Later I was told that this was the only way women could be part of the Well, Jim and Mary Beth and Katie, Jill's twin sister, had been over this and over this and over it again. They couldn't thrash any more. Katie insisted that they should trust people Jill trusted; so be it. They'd go with the Monitor's Baghdad correspondents, and the softer appeal from her mother. On the other end of the phone, Jim's FBI contact sounded very unhappy. He was polite, but clear: The bureau did not think this was a good idea. Not a good idea at all. Jim hung up. He felt he was living in a new world, where you got 1 percent of the data you needed to make a decision, but it didn't matter; you had to decide anyway, you couldn't walk away, and you had to do it now, right now and the price of a misstep might be a vibrant young woman's life. .G. -P- As we stood in the small Abu Ali, the with the beard who had abducted me, proudly declared that his wife wanted to die. "Urn Ali wants to be a martyr. She wants to drive a car bomb!" he said, beaming. Of course, she'd have to wait, since she was now four months pregnant. It is forbidden in Islam to kill a fetus at that age, he explained. "Oh, OK, OK, oh wow," I said. I feigned confusion while I tried to think of what to say. The chaos of dinner preparation swirled around us. The kitchen was typically Iraqi: a cramped space with thin metal countertops that have no cabi It . . on-CN- man-to-ma- mujahideen. The men could have the glory of fighting in battle. Women got to blow themselves up. Meanwhile, the big silver platters of food were ready. Men carried them out to the group of insurgents meeting behind the closed door of the sitting room. Based on their comments, this house seemed to be in western Baghdad or near Abu Ghraib. I talked with Um Ali and other women in the kitchen. Yes, I traveled back and forth between countries for my Job, I said. They replied that it was wrong for them to work, that they left school at age 12 to learn to cookand keep house. Then the dinner platters returned, with the food ravaged rice everywhere, bones with the chicken chewed off, nothing left but scraps, really. And the women sat and began to eat the scraps. I couldn't believe it! After all the time they'd spent preparing the meal, they got leftovers, But I sat down with them. And, as Iwould often do with1 Jill's life. Despair billowed over him. was a surreal experience. ing innocert civilians. Mr. Dulaimi perhaps was a in the Al Jazeera studio, Jim Carroll particularly important catch. Jill had been seeking to interview stared at the camera, aware him just prior to her abduction. that at any moment it would Some Westerners in Baghdad switch on and broadcast his suspected that he, or someone image around the world. He didn't want that image to be . who worked in his off ice, had been involved in the crime. him scratching his nose, so he Jim was worn out by the stayed unnaturally still as the minutes ticked away. struggle over family statements. That had been intense. A day earlier, Mary Beth makThe FBI's position that it had appeared was best the father talk stronging the family's first televised n manner ly in a response to the kidnappers' was the considered opinion demands. "They've picked of bureau counterterror exthe wrong person ... if they're looking for someone who is an perts, who'd tested it before focus groups of Arabs. Iraq enemy of Iraq," she said, addwas a society, ing to her scripted statement. after all. Now, it was Jim's turn.. But the Monitor's corresponFinally, after a quarter of an hour, the light blipped, and, dents in Baghdad, plus the British security firm there, thought on Jan. 20, Jill Carroll's father made his global TV debut . that approach was culturally insensitive. Iraqi men revere their Live, for the 6 a.m. news feed in the Middle East. mothers, they insisted, so the "I want to speak directly to first appeal should come from the men holding my daughter Mary Beth. And it should depict Jill because they also may be Jill, not as a lone adult, but as fathers like me..,." the missing piece of a family another point they felt would When he left the studio after finishing, the woman who had appeal to Iraqi hearts. In the end the family opted produced the shoot came up to him. Tears were running down for the mother first tactics. her cheeks. "Bingo," thought A day after Mary Beth's apJim. His message appeared to pearance, Jim made his own . televised appeal, albeit, with have gotten through. Maybe othertears were rpnning down words watered down from the FBI's language. He appeared other cheeks right now, in on both Al Jazeera, the most Iraq. It hafd been a busy week. popular Arabic network, and Three days ago, the first video its more reserved competitor, of.Jill as a hostage had apAlArabiya. Neither Maiy Beth nor Jim peared on Al Jazeera; she'd were afraid of the camera. But looked tired and stressed. On the positive side, the they were afraid of saying the video had been followed by wrong thing. In her first appearance, an outpouring of statements calling for Jill's release, from Mary Beth took a few questions, and in answering one Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, said that Jill was a good Iraq's Muslim Scholars As"ambassador" for Iraq, since sociation, and Sunni political she'd reported the struggles leader Adnan of Iraqis' daily lives. But later among others. 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In the early days of my They seized on this idea, per- captivity, we'd do it often, and I'd look in his little eyes, and it haps to a degree I hadn't anticipated. After dinner, some of the really comforted me. It felt so men drew up plastic chairs in a good just to hug jomebody. Still, getting through each walkway area in the middle of the house and field an impromp- hour was an accomplishment. tu press conference minus Every day was so long. Um Ali would do something nice, like questions, and with me as the lone member of the press. br ng me some tea. and I'd try to react normally. But then I'd They insisted that they remember that they'd killed weren't terrorists, that they were just defending their Alan, my interpreter. That refrain was constantly country against an occupation. They had nothing against in my head: Don't be fooled, Jill. They killed Alan. Don't be Americans, they said. 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I hoped the little briefing would help establish my persona as a reporter. To placate them, I'd memorized verses in the Quran. But I never seriously considered the idea of converting. As I learned more about this brand of Islam, and the life of women tied by marriage or family to the insurgen. cy, the more convinced I was that I couldn't ven pretend to convert. As long as I was seen', as a reporter and a Christian woman. I figured they might tolerate my missteps. But if acquiesced to conversion, even if it was insincere, would a like Um Ali "good Muslim" also be required to embrace wanted to imply was that Jill worked for any government. So the family limited media appearances to scripted statements. They asked friends not to speak to the press. Almost without exception, their friends complied, with some even slamming the door on reporters. 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