Jill Carroll was born on October 6,1977 and is an American former journalist who worked for news organizations such as The Wall Street Journal, and the Christian Science Monitor.
22 Facts About Jill Carroll
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Jill Carroll participated in a fellowship at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and returned to work for the Monitor.
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Jill Carroll later retired from journalism and began working as a firefighter.
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Jill Carroll attended Huron High School in Ann Arbor and graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1999.
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Jill Carroll then moved to Amman, Jordan as a journalist for The Jordan Times, before going to Iraq at the start of the US invasion in 2003 to report for various news outlets there.
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The driver, Adnan Abbas, managed to escape, but Jill Carroll was kidnapped and her interpreter, Alan Enwiyah, 32, was shot dead and his body abandoned nearby by the kidnappers during the abduction.
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Jill Carroll's driver, quoted in a story posted on the Monitors website, said gunmen jumped in front of the car, pulled him from it, and drove off with their two captives all within 15 seconds.
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Sunni political leader Adnan al-Dulaimi, whom Jill Carroll was attempting to visit when she was kidnapped, gave a press conference on January 20,2006, and gave the following statements.
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On January 17,2006, Qatar-based news network Al-Jazeera aired a silent 20-second video-tape that showed Jill Carroll, and indicated that in an accompanying message, an as-yet unidentified group was giving the United States 72 hours to release all female prisoners in Iraq.
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The silent video showed Jill Carroll speaking in front of a white background.
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On January 30,2006, a second video appeared on Al Jazeera showing Jill Carroll wearing a headscarf and crying.
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The 22-second video showed Jill Carroll sitting in a chair behind a large floral pattern, in full Islamic dress.
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Jill Carroll is pleading for supporters to do whatever it takes to release her.
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On February 5,2006 in Rome a giant poster of Jill Carroll, urging her release, was hung on the city hall building.
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On March 30,2006, Jill Carroll entered the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party offices in western Baghdad around midday and handed office personnel a letter, thought to be from her kidnappers, asking for help, a party official later said.
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At that time, Jill Carroll said she had just been freed unharmed and was treated humanely during her captivity.
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The Christian Science Monitor, the paper Jill Carroll worked for, reported that she was "forced to make propaganda video as price of freedom", saying:.
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Jill Carroll had been their captive for three months and even the smallest details of her life - what she ate and when, what she wore, when she could speak - were at her captors' whim.
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Jill Carroll's remarks are now making the rounds of the Internet, attracting heavy criticism from conservative bloggers and commentators.
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Jill 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.
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In 2006, Jill Carroll participated in a fellowship at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, where she researched the decline of foreign news bureaus in the wake of changes in the newspaper industry.
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Jill Carroll was given the Courage in Journalism Award in 2006 by the International Women's Media Foundation.