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Kidnapped Reporter Carroll: I Pleaded for a Quick DeathPosted on Aug 14, 2006
Jill Carroll, the 28-year-old Christian Science Monitor freelancer who was held captive in Iraq for almost three months earlier this year, has gone public for the first time with the story of her ordeal. She recalls beseeching one of her captors to use a gun to kill her—rather than a knife—when it seemed her execution was imminent.
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By robert puglia, August 14, 2006 at 7:59 pm #
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it is certainly a good thing that jill carroll survived her ordeal but i question the motivations of one putting oneself at such peril. while murrow, cronkite, safer and others helped to illuminate some truth of war, there is an arrogance or bravado, a recklessness about those who would presume to be the purveyors of truth, that which is said to be the first casualty of war. profitable or otherwise, her story (as she tells it) reads as implausibly naieve.
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