Summary
After Jill Carroll was released, the Monitor invited readers to send in questions about her experience. Hundreds of people responded. Below are a selection of questions and excerpts from Jill's answers. A video-taped interview of her complete answers can be found here.
Cecil E. Perfoy, from Maui, Hawaii, asks: "When released from Iraq, you had stated that you had been well treated by your captors. After your trip to Germany and return to the US, you then indicated that you were not treated well. For a seasoned correspondent, which answer was truthful?"See the full content of this document
Extract
Readers Ask, and Jill Carroll Answers
Jill: Well, obviously, the latter. I wasn't well treated. But keep in mind, I wasn't doing this as a reporter. I was a hostage ... I had been attacked, essentially.
The reason why I said in the beginning that I was well treated ... those were the exact words I was told to say by the insurgents who captured me. They said if I ever said a...See the full content of this document
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