Jill Carroll is Free


And what a great turn for such a bad situation she’s been in for so long. 82 days held in captivity. Man I can’t even imagine.

March 31, 2006 — When Jill Carroll was unexpectedly released Thursday after 82 days in captivity in Iraq, the first phone call she made was to her twin sister, Katie Carroll, to say, Jill Carroll“I’m free.”

Then both sisters burst into tears, according to The Christian Science Monitor, the newspaper for which Jill Carroll had been freelancing before she was kidnapped.

Next, she called her parents.

“I love you,” she told her mother, according to the Monitor, “and every day single day I was in captivity I cried over how worried you must be. … And what a burden this must be for the family.”

“Jill called me directly. It was quite a wake-up call, to say the least,” her father, Jim Carroll, said. “She’s apparently in good health and mentally strong.”

“We just couldn’t be more pleased and more grateful for this good news for Jill and her family,” said Richard Bergenheim, the Monitor’s editor.

Carroll was dropped off Thursday near an office of the Iraqi Islamic Party, the country’s main Sunni political organization, in western Baghdad. Her feelings of joy and relief are only stage one of the long recovery process former hostages face, according to experts on kidnapping.

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